General Zargon: hey there! Just so you know I'm not dead!
Ryuuketsu: yeah I know you're not so just get on with the story
General Zargon: 'Kay! But first ryuuketsu do the disclaimer!
Disclaimer: the author does not own digimon some rich guy in Japan does
General Zargon: on with the chapter!
Takato walked through the halls of the castle towards the basement thinking 'why would nightmaremon want me to stay away from that one room? Is something important in the room? Or is it something else?' takato snapped out of it once he realized that he'd reached the basement, the door was a dark shade of gray, takato slowly walked up to the door and took a deep breath before opening the door and as silently as he could closing it.
Takato gasped when he turned around and saw what was hanging on the walls and when he looked to his immediate right he saw an angemon's staff and other various accessories to some digimon and digimon he knew to be powerful vaccine digimon some megas 'so this is what nightmaremon didn't want me to see…some sort of trophy room' takato thought bitterly as he slowly walked past the objects hanging on the walls, some on pedestals.
A glint caught takato's eye as he turned to look takato discovered that it was a thick ring with strange symbols carved around it made of some sort of gold 'what digimon did that come from?' takato thought to himself as he walked over to examine it it was then that he remembered it, it was the ring from a phoenixmon's foot, takato gasped as he realized what digimon it had belonged to and shakily he picked it up and nightmaremon chose that moment to wake up 'takato no!' but it was to late as a bright glow burst from the ring and blinded takato.
The ring dropped from his hand only to latch on to his right ankle and the glow intensified as takato felt a burning sensation in his right ankle a figure materialized behind takato as if separating from him, when the glow stopped two figures fell to the ground one takato the other clad in dark armor, takato groaned as he opened his eyes a tense 10 minutes later and when he looked up he found nightmaremon looking down at him "heh I take it I'm in trouble then?" takato said nervously and nightmaremon nodded saying "oh yeah big time" takato sighed.
Takato tried to sit up but found even that a chore but was even more surprised when nightmaremon helped him sit up, takato looked at nightmaremon confused as he asked "um how are you here?" nightmaremon sighed as he sat down cross-legged and answered "I think that the holy powers stored in the ring you picked up countered the dark power that bound me to you and forced us to separate since it couldn't get rid of that power" when nightmaremon finished he looked at takato to see if he had understood any of that and evidently he had since the look of realization was in his eyes "so you mean that when I picked up that ring it glowed because it tried to get rid of you but wound up separating us instead" takato stated and nightmaremon nodded.
Nightmaremon just sat there letting takato digest the information while he quietly looked takato over to see if he had been hurt because in nightmaremon's experience being exposed to great bolts of stored holy energy tended to leave marks but just as nightmaremon just about finished his examination he saw the ring attached to takato's ankle 'uh oh that can't be good' nightmaremon thought as takato recovered enough to ask "I know this may sound strange but on that darkgatomon's tail I noticed a black ring that look a lot like the holy ring on the gatomon from the cartoons tail did that dark ring come from here?" nightmaremon blinked and thought for a minute.
Nightmaremon carefully replied watching takato closely "yes that ring did come from this room" nightmaremon held up a hand for takato to keep quiet while he explained "I know you are wondering about this room and these" he gestured around "objects so I'll just put it simply" he took a deep breath "these are some of the trophy's from all the battles I won before I was ever bound to you and was in the habit of taking trophy's from all my victories" nightmaremon finished and takato looked down and suddenly noticed the ring around his ankle and finally felt the burning sensation "um nightmaremon how come this ring is on my ankle? And what's with the burning feeling?" takato asked hesitantly as nightmaremon examined said ankle and replied "I think since you picked it up and since you had dark power in you at the time I guess it latched on to you to keep that dark power from returning and if I had to hazard a guess I'd say that the burning feeling is the ring's power familiarizing itself with your energy" nightmaremon explained as he set down takato's foot.
After nightmaremon got takato to his room and to the bed "I think it would be best if you took a breather and don't worry the burning should go away in a day or two but you only have yourself to blame for the discomfort" nightmaremon said as he made to leave the room but before he left he heard takato sleepily mumble "sorry" and as soon as the word left takato's mouth he was asleep 'I know takato I know' nightmaremon thought as he quietly closed the door.
General Zargon: yay chapter done! –Does the hula-
Ryuuketsu:-sigh- stop dancing and take off that grass skirt!
General Zargon:-pouts- oh alright-stops dancing and takes off grass skirt- happy?
Ryuuketsu: very
General Zargon: to the review responses!
To JC:
General Zargon: I'm glad and thanks! See ya!
To Firehedgehog:
General Zargon: sure and maybe you should think about updating your stories too
To Earthpaw:
General Zargon: glad I have your interest so now you know what's in the room
To Dark Inu Fan:
General Zargon: well you see my first 10 chapters were deleted so I had to upload them all again and depends on what your idea of too injured is and don't worry I will
Ryuuketsu: well now that that's over R&R
General Zargon: yeah R&R!