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Chapter 14

Inside the Castle Walls, Thy Enemy Awaits.

It took the group some time, but they soon found themselves aft the gates of the Japanese style castle. They stood in front of the door for a second before Taomon reached out a pushed the door open gently. They stepped inside to find a light purple mist was hanging about the castle. They looked forward through the fog to see that there were two people standing at the opposite end of the castle grounds. The mist cleared slightly and they could see it was Naraku in his human like form, with Rika by his side, her eyes clouded with Naraku's evil power.

The two parties stood perfectly still for several minutes before they could hear Naraku chuckling under his breath. Naraku then said to them in his usual smug tone, "Why, I hadn't expected you to get here so quickly. I guess I have under estimated the power Taomon controls."

Inuyasha responded with a bit of happiness in his voice, "Today, today is the day we will defeat you Naraku, and I will take revenge for Kikyo's death."

Miroku said, "Today I shall rid my family of the cursed wind tunnel."

Sango said, "Today, I shall take revenge for my father, Kohaku, and the rest of the demon slayer village."

Kagome added, "and finally, today is the day we shall rid the world of your evil." With that everyone prepared for the great battle between them and Naraku. Taomon was the first to attack, but Naraku showed no sign of trying to dodge the attack, instead all he did was turn his head to look at Rika. Rika responded to this by slowly bring up her digivice and saying in a emotionless voice, "Digimodify, hyper speed activate."

Just when Taomon was about to strike Naraku with her thousand spell attack he vanished, and reappeared behind the Tao sorceress. Rika had once again brought up her digivice and swiped a card as she said, "Digimodify, Sword of Power activate."

Naraku's right hand formed into a very large sturdy blade that was glowing black with a dark energy. Naraku quickly slashed the blade down and hit Taomon squarely in the back. This sent Taomon crashing into the ground with amazing force. She had been sent several feet away from Naraku, and he was about to launch another attack at her when Inuyasha launched his wind scar and made Naraku use his sword to block. While Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango attacked the evil half-demon Kagome turned to Sesshomaru and said, "Go see if Taomon is all right, we can handle Naraku for now."

Sesshomaru nodded his head and speed off to where the fox digimon lay. When he got closer he noticed that it wasn't the Tao sorceress sitting there, but rookie level Renamon. Sesshomaru knelt down beside her, and began to fear the worse when he noticed she wasn't moving. Sesshomaru quickly reached for Tenseiga, but pulled out the sword that could save 100 humans with a single swing. He then engaged the Tenseiga's power and tried to use its healing power on Renamon, but for some reason the blade wasn't healing Renamon's wounds. That is when Sesshomaru began to panic and he put his ear down nest to Renamon's chest. It was faint, but a heart beat was there. He tried to think of something to do to save her when something his step mother, Inuyasha's human mother, had taught him. He quickly brought his head down to hers and breathed a breath into her lungs. He then placed his hands on her chest and with a he began to thrust down on Renamon's chest with just the right amount of force. Suddenly Renamon coughed up a bit of blood and her eyes slowly opened.

Sesshomaru looked down at Renamon, and sighed relief now that he knew she was going to live. Renamon had no clue what had happened. All she knew right now was that Sesshomaru was sitting over her, she could hear the sounds of fighting from across the court yard, and there was a strange look to Sesshomaru's eyes. A look she had only seen when Sesshomaru had defended her from the Tiger demon tribe, and he had lain down beside her in his true form. She reached up her hand to his face and asked, "Sesshomaru, what troubles you, the great lord of the western lands."

Sesshomaru placed his hand on her and said, "That is a good question. I have faced 1000 demons at one time, Demons 10 times my size, and many other things like that. Yet, when I thought you were going to die, I have never been more afraid of anything in my life." Sesshomaru closed his eyes for a moment, but then he felt Renamon's hand leave his cheek. He opened his eyes to see Renamon was sitting up. Before she had a chance to stand up though one of Naraku's stray attacks came flying Sesshomaru, and with all her strength Renamon pushed him out of the way of the attack. This, unfortunately put her in the line of fire instead, and she was hit right on the shoulder. This sent Renamon flying back a few more feet, and Sesshomaru gasped as he knew she couldn't survive a second attack like that. He then began to sense what he feared, that Renamon's life force was waning in strength and she would be dead soon.

A new fire suddenly exploded in Sesshomaru he began to reach for his swords, drawing both the Toukijin and Tenseiga. He then crossed the two swords and the Tenseiga began to draw power from the Toukijin. After a few moments of this Sesshomaru sheathed the Toukijin, and he then turned and using the Tenseiga to save Renamon's life like he had tried to earlier. Naraku had been watching this along with Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kagome. All of them were wondering how the Tenseiga had saved Renamon from certain death when the first time Sesshomaru tried to use it the Tenseiga had no effect on Renamon. Renamon stood up, showing no signs of being in a fight, and walked up to stand beside Sesshomaru. They then nodded at each other and turned to face Naraku. Naraku sent a silent command to Rika, and again Rika mindlessly swiped a card through her digivice.

The blade on Naraku's arm disappeared and his whole body began to glow a dark crimson. A black lighting bolt formed in his hand and before Renamon or Sesshomaru could react he had throwing it at them like a spear. When Sesshomaru saw the black lighting bolt flying toward him and Renamon he quickly scooped her up into his arms and darted out of the way of the incoming attack.

Naraku kept throwing lighting bolts at Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru dodged each one while carrying Renamon like a groom carries his bride. Renamon wondered when Sesshomaru was going to set her down until she realized that he was heading in the direction of Rika. Before she knew it Sesshomaru had set her down beside Rika. Naraku had his attention fully set on Sesshomaru and hadn't noticed he had set Renamon down by the one who gave him his knew found power.

Renamon closed the small distance between her and Rika and set her hands on Rika's shoulder. She began to shake Rika gently as she said, "Rika, Come on Rika. Say something, anything. It's me Renamon, your partner and your friend."

As Renamon looked deep into Rika's eyes she saw the clouds in Rika's eyes clear a small bit and Rika was quietly able to say, "Rrrrr…Rennnn…Renamon."

Renamon felt her heart leap at the fact that Naraku's hold over her wasn't complete. Renamon said, "Yes Rika, it's me. Now come on, we've fought the Devas and the D-Reaper. After facing them it should be easy for you to break free of this mad man's mind games. Come on Rika."

Rika's eyes unclouded a bit more and her hands began to shake. After a few minutes of this Rika was able to bring her hands up to her head, and her eyes were now half way clear. She fell to her knees and sweat began to form on her brow. In a bit more steady voice she said, "Renamon, I…I can't break free. I can't escape. I need your help Renamon."

Renamon knelt down beside her tamer and said, "Then let me help you. Let us battle this evil that clouds your eyes as one, because when we fight together nothing can defeat us." Renamon then brought Rika into a loving embrace, and while they hugged each other tight Rika's digivice glowed and Rika was able to say for everyone to hear:

Biomerge activate…Renamon biomerge to………………Sakyuamon.

Every saw as the bright light that had enveloped Rika and Renamon subsided and the mega level shaman digimon stood there in all her glory. The instant they had joined as one Naraku had lost all power he had over Rika and Naraku knew that his chances for victory had just diminished. Sakyuamon surveyed the seen a second and then she shouted, "Naraku."

He turned his head and said, "Who is this who stands against me now, and what happened to my newest servant and the yellow fox demon."

"I am Sakyuamon, and I am both Renamon and Rika. So the yellow fox and little girl still stand before you, we just changed from two tough as nails girls into one who will kick your butt."

Naraku smiled as he formed another black lighting bolt in his hand and said, "I still have the power you gave me, and with it I will crush you."

Sakyuamon brought her staff into a fighting position as Naraku formed the lighting bolt in his hand into a type of sword. They stared each other down for a few moments before Sakyuamon said, "I'll walk all over you." With that the combatants launched themselves at each other and the battle began." Naraku kept slashing his black lighting sword around madly and all Sakyuamon was able to do was block the attacks. Soon he landed on just right and the force of it sent her staff flying and her flying backward. Naraku quickly followed up his strike with a blow that would have been lethal if Sesshomaru hadn't swooped in with the Tenseiga and blocked the attack.

Sesshomaru forced Naraku back turned his head to Sakyuamon to say, "We shall take defeat him together, for neither one of can do it on our own." Sakyuamon nodded as she summoned her staff back to her hand and stood beside Sesshomaru, ready to continue the fight."