Gate Way of Life

I don't own Digimon

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'Thoughts'

"talking out loud"

'-----' scene change

(V)(V) different point of view

'+' flash back

Chapter 20

He watches Kyuukimon's unit and WereGarurumon's unit begin to make themselves at home. The enemy's base now is under their control. They got orders from Cerubimon to hold the base and they plan to do just that. Takato and J.P. were staying to help out. They knew that if Takato were here, then the chances of the enemy Digimon trying to recapture the base would be minimal. He takes one look around and then with Calamon on his head, he head to where he saw his brother go.

Calamon had helped four Digimon to Digivolve. He also didn't understand why Calamon was with him and not with Takato. "Hey, Calamon, why aren't you with Takato?" He asks the in-training Digimon. He pauses for the answers. "I already did! He also told me to find someone to visit with and to stay by their side until I get on the trailmon. So I saw you and decided that you'd be more fun! Zoe and Takuya didn't look like they want anybody else with them. Tommy was helping with the repairs!" Calamon says to him. He thinks about it and understood Takato's logic about having Calamon stay close to someone. If Takato thought that Calamon might wonder off then Calamon might as well lie on his head. He then continues to walk. "So, you seem to get along well with Lucemon. Can't wait to get back to him?" He asks Calamon. "Lucemon's great! We play lots of games, but it's not as much fun without more people to play those games with. I wish Guilmon was here, he always likes to play games." Calamon says wistfully. "I meet Guilmon a while back. Big, red with black markings? He misses you too, you know. He spends a lot of time just by himself." He tells Calamon. "I feel really bad. Guilmon's lonely and there's nothing that I can do! How long do you think it'll be until Takato and Guilmon split up?" Calamon asks.

They come upon Kouji practicing his sword skills. Calamon and him just watch as Kouji repeats the same move over and over. They both notice that Kouji wasn't paying attention to his surroundings. Calamon moves to his shoulder and whispers, after five minutes of watching Kouji, "Do you think it would funny if we surprise him?" He thinks for a minute then whispers to Calamon, "It don't think we should startle him. Lets just wait and play look out, ok?" Calamon nods and flies to a tree and looks around.

(V)(V)(V)

He looks around, hoping that Calamon had taken his advice about wondering. He was with Kyuukimon looking though the papers. The Digidestine's friend, a Datamon, was hacking into the computers. He was the one that was moving the pages of paper for Kyuukimon didn't have any hands to use, just blades.

There were others looking though the books and papers as well, but he was the one helping Kyuukimon. All of the papers and books are going back with the other units. So, Kyuukimon wanted to have some of his unit have a look through them before they get packed up. The computers can't be moved, so Datamon was copying the files from the computer.

"Are we done with this pile?" He asks Kyuukimon. "Yes, there's no reason to continue. I'll report to WereGarurumon what little we've found. Thank you for your help, Takato." Kyuukimon says to him. "Your welcome, Kyuukimon. I'll go check on how J.P. is doing." He says and leaves the room. He finds his way through the building until he finds the kitchen. J.P. was supposed to be here, taking inventory of food supplies. He walks into the room, only to find a Shadramon in the room. "Did J.P. and the others go foraging?" He asks the Digimon. "Yip, they had a look around the building and decided that they need meat apples. Most of this other stuff is different but it'll last for quite sometime now that it's only feeding hundred and forty-six Digimon. The enemy Digimon numbers were six thousand, six hundred, and fifty-two. I heard that a hundred and eight-nine enemy Digimon had been deleted before they abandon their base. We lost seventy-three Digimon." Shadramon tells him. "You heard this from who?" He asks Shadramon. "I heard it when Commander WereGarurumon stopped by to talk to J.P." The Digimon answers. "Thank you for that information. I'll go see what they plan on doing with the leftover tents. Tell J.P. that I dropped in." He tells the Digimon and Shadramon nods his head.

He heads outside, and meets up with Tommy. "Hey Tommy. How are the repairs going?" He asks the youngest Digidestine. "It's going fine! We'll be leaving in about three hours. You finished with the books and papers?" Tommy asks and he nods. "So, what's happening with the extra tents?" He asks. "I think they plan on using them for tempary walls. You'd have to ask around. See you later Takato!" Tommy says before continuing on his way. He watches Tommy disappear, and then he heads off.

(V)(V)(V)

It was Friday when the enemy Digimon surrenders to the camp's Commander WereGarurumon. They looked hungry and dejected, their highest-ranking officers had fought for control over the remaining units and there had been no winners. Without anyone in charge, they voted Mane, a LoaderLeomon to be in charge. Mane had been in charge of communications. It seemed that Mane was popular among the ranks as an easy going Digimon. It also seemed that the old commanders had also began to delete Digimon to try to keep order. It was the biggest defeat the GL has ever had. Mane also got advice from Guyver that shocked the remaining GL army a great deal for they thought that Takato had deleted Guyver.

Guyver had a very long talk with Mane and Mane had to agree that the GL would rather delete the survivors then to admit that they had been defeated on a battlefront. So, once the portal was up and running, Guyver and the remainder of the army would be heading to home reality of the Stalkers.

He was just glad that the war was over. Now Kouichi, Kouji, Zoe, Guyver, and him were on their way to File Connect. They had found out that Guyver was fascinated with the Hazard and since he didn't have all the answers to the questions that Guyver had been asking, he thought that Guyver should come with him and the others. It's Monday and they now made it with time to spare. They dropped off to visit IceLeomon and then he took them to where the building was. He found it without too much trouble and he landed on the building and finished tying the two ropes up and then tossed them down to the people waiting at the bottom.

(V)(V)(V)

He finishes climbing up the rope and he helps roll up the rope. He takes a look around and grins under his mask. He couldn't believe that the Hazard had kept things from the defeated realities that it searched. He believed that Takato was right, and that favorite tablet was telling the truth.

He hands the rope to Takato and Takato puts in it into his dimensional pouch. Kouji opens the door and they walk in. Takato takes out two torches and hands one to Kouji and the other to him. Then they begin to head down the stairs.

After traveling to the level that they had encountered LoreApemon, Takato took out two more torches and hands them to Zoe and Kouichi. "I'm going down the next set of stairs. Feel free to look at what you want. See you guys later." Takato says after handing out the torches, after they nod, he head to the stairs and they, too, head down different hallways.

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It took a lot of effort for them to get in touch with Tai and the others. Now she looks at her older brother on the computer screen. It might be the last time that they talk to the other Digidestine.

"Hey Tai! How are you?" She says to her brother. "Good, you?" Tai asks. "Good, so what been happening?" She asks, waiting for the others to show up. She hears Matt and the others in the background. "I met Takato briefly. Nice kid, his friends spend two nights at our place. We gave him some stuff to give to you. Didn't he make it back?" Tai says. She just stared blankly at Tai. 'Takato visited Tai and them? And he brought friends? How did he do that when we can't even get in touch with them? This is confusing.' She finally asks, "Was he ok? I mean, where he is?" Tai looks surprised at the question. "Last I heard the reality he's in is at war with some invading Digimon. He's two friends were also Digidestine. I think their names were Kouichi and Kouji. Nice guys, though Kouji reminded me of Matt." Tai says. She knew that Tai's hiding something. She just knew it for she knew her brother too well.

Just when she's about to ask him for more T.K., Ken, Davis, and Izzy come into the room. "Hey Tai! Long time no see!" Davis greets her brother. "Hey Davis! Hey Izzy, T.K. Nice to see you're doing well Ken. Nice to see you again, Izzy. So, Davis is found and Takato's the one now missing?" Tai says before Matt and Sora push Tai out of the way. "Hey little bro. Mom's worried, but Takato's go a letter from her. Also next time you see Takato, tell him that thanks for the sketch of Gabumon." Matt says to T.K. That got the rooms attention. "You've met Takato? He sketched Gabumon?" Ken says. "Yip, I'm still getting use to the twins though. So, enough about Takato, what's been happening on your end?" Sora says.

Soon they tell the others about the wedding they had for Cassandra and Dash. Soon after they began to tell them about their marks from school the connection acted up and Yolei and Izzy's attempts to keep the connection open. It disconnects, leaving them in front of a blank computer screen.

After a few minutes, they look at each other and then look to where Terriermon and Gatomon enter. The two Digimon look at them and then Terriermon says, "What? Never seen a Digimon enter a room before?" "Takato visited Tai and the others." Davis tells the two Digimon. Terriermon and Gatomon just stare at them blankly. "You're kidding, right?" Gatomon asks. "Nope, it's true. It also seem that Takato has meet up with some more Digidestine too. Twins named Kouji and Kouichi." She says to everyone.

(V)(V)(V)

Takato finds LoreApemon on the twenty-eighth level of this dimension. "Hey LoreApemon! I'm back and I brought some more friends." He says to her. She looks up from the computer screen and says, "I'll be glad to meet them. I take it that Kouji and Kouichi are also back?" He nods and walks over to see the computer screen. He sees images of two great dragons Digimon. He knew that one was Megidramon, the other he never seen before.

He looks at the name by Megidramon's and it reads ShadXailindramon. This dragon Digimon was purple with yellow markings. This Digimon had six limbs and four wings. With four eyes, one eye was red, the second eye was blue, then had another green, and finally the last eye was yellow. The Digimon had a long serpent like body. The four wings look tattered for they look had feathers and it looked like most of the feathers had fallen out. On this Digimon's massive head, were three pairs of antler horns that had seven yellow lines by the base of the horns. This Digimon was huge compared to Megidramon. The snout of ShadXailindramon was broad with four long fangs coming down from the top of the mouth. On the tail of ShadXailindramon were three blades that looked like they were about to spear Megidramon from behind. The forward pair of limbs that belonged to ShadXailindramon had three clawed fingers and a clawed thumb on both hands. The two other limbs had four long claws that were spread out to help give this Digimon a good grip on the floor. The yellow markings reminded him of tribal designs that were becoming popular in his home reality. All in all, ShadXailindramon looked to be a deadly enemy.

"Amazing! What kind of Digimon was ShadXailindramon?" He asks LoreApemon. "He was a virus mega. According to this records, he was formed when two mega level Digimon DNA digivolved together. Impressive, huh? The fight lasted for three straight weeks before Megidramon got the upper hand. Megidramon out lasted ShadXailindramon; it was a fight of stamina at the end. So, should we go so you can intrude me to you other friends?" LoreApemon asks him. He takes one last look at the computer screen before nodding. "Yea, I hope I'm not intruding, though." He says. LoreApemon smiles at that, and says, "You're not intruding on anything. I've been through this whole collection twice. It's no problem. And I hope you can stay longer this time. After having you and your friends here, it feels rather lonely to be here by myself." He looks embarrassed, "We have two weeks. We might leave to get breathes of fresh air, to shower, and to get supplies. So, just what do you eat?" He looks at her as the exit the room with the computer. "There's a level call Mithril, it's shows up when I need to eat. It's the only level that can appear only when you want it to. So when I'm hungry, I just think about Mithril and then I either go up some stairs or down some stairs and I find myself on that level." She tells him. He look surprised, "I'll have to remember that, thanks."

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He looks around; he knew that he was sleeping. He's never told anyone about his dreams, not even Calamon. He did wish to tell somebody though. In this dreams, he's done really bad things. He has seen himself attack Takuya and the others. He even has seen himself control uncle Cherubimon. He feels so helpless to help Takuya and the others. He doesn't hear what he says or what anybody here says. He just watches and he really didn't want to be here. There were times that Takuya and the others attacked those that this dream Lucemon uses. He has seen Takuya and the others purify them. He wonders if this were based on memories, for they remind him of stories that his dad told him when he was younger.

Calamon looks at his friend, he knew that at night something haunts him when he sleeps. Calamon's getting worried, it's been about two weeks and Takato's going to be back soon. "Hurry up Takato! I think we need your help. I wish I could help you more, Lucemon, but you got to hold on! Don't let the bad things take over! I don't want to go through what I did with Jeri! Hurry up Takato!" Calamon says.

He wakes up, looking around, he shakes his head. He's had something like that before. It was how he first seen Rika and Renamon. Now he felt that Calamon and Lucemon needed him. He can't wait to get back to them. He has an odd feeling that it's going take a lot before Lucemon's well.

To be continued …