"Katie!" Both John and Wizardmon yelled as they landed on the ground and started running.

Fang perked up his ears, whom was outside sleeping, and chased after them, barking along the way.

"What is that thing?" John asked as he ran.

"I'm not sure, it seems like a Digimon, but I really don't know who though," Wizardmon answered.

Fang then caught up to them and barked.

"Fang!" Wizardmon and John said.

Fang barked again and John smiled, "Good to see you're gonna help us get Katie back."

Back at the house, things seemed silent. Well slightly.

"What's with Kotori? Is she that scared of the thunderstorm?" Sarah complained.

Kotori wasn't singing, she seemed to be trying to warn them about something. It seemed that Kotori knew that Katie, Fang, John, and Wizardmon were in trouble; yet since she's a bird they couldn't understand her.

"I don't know," Paul said typing really fast on his computer," The internet says nothing about odd behavior like this."

Sarah tried to pet Kotori to calm her, but she then bit her. Kotori flapped her wings hard.

"Ow! What's your problem?"

"Don't get mad at her, I think she's trying to tell us something," Paul said, and kept typing at his computer.

Sarah sat down and sighed, and just kept her eye on Kotori.

Soon Wizardmon, John, and Fang caught up. Once they made it, all three looked up at the large monster holding Katie captive. It had four tentacles on its back, yet two large clawed arms. It also had large feet, wings, a tail, then its head…large, horned, and big fangs.

"It looks like…Darkmon," Wizardmon said.

"Darkmon?" John asked looking over to him.

"Darkmon is a dragon like Digimon with tentacles growing on his back. He has the ability to hide in the darkness and not be seen or heard. That probably explains why we didn't notice him before. He also can't see or hear very well, so he can smell fear and blood. Normally they're known to protect rare herbs or special gems. If not, then they're out causing havoc; and they're said to never loose without killing someone. They never give up," Wizardmon answered and stepped back, clenching his staff.

John gritted his teeth and looked up angrily at Darkmon, "Well it's different for this guy. None of us will die, and he WILL!"

John then charged at Darkmon with Fang following him, barking along the way.

"Wait!" Wizardmon said but was too late as Darkmon used his tentacle to knock John and Fang down.

"Ha ha, you mortals cannot defeat me, it's useless," Darkmon said.

Wizardmon growled and looked up at Darkmon.

"And you, you're the one I'm here for. I've heard that you've destroyed all us Digimon that come here to live in the real world. So I've come here to stop you!
"What? I only did that because all of you were destroying innocent people! And how does this involve Katie? She's ill!"

"This girl…she's just so that I can get you to battle with me. But I know if I let go, you three will just run off with her."

Wizardmon clenched his staff again, "Fine then! I'll fight you! But don't hurt Katie!"

"Oh, you better hurry though, my tentacles have the ability to suck the strength out of the one it's holding." Darkmon then laughed really loudly.

Wizardmon and John went wide eyed, "Katie!"

Katie looked down at them, "Please hurry! And don't hurt yourselves."

"I can't stand this any longer," Wizardmon said, with his head down and staff clenched in his hand, "I'll destroy you! And now!"

Wizardmon than ran up to him, with lightning sparkling all around his staff.

"Thunder Cloud!" He yelled and stuck it into Darkmon's side.

Darkmon yelled in pain and knocked Wizardmon over with a tentacle.

Fang then ran up to him and bit Darkmon in the leg, Darkmon looked down on him and kicked him into a tree. Fang yelped.

"Fang!" John yelled, then turned to Darkmon angrily. Then ran at him, with his fist clenched.

Darkmon grinned, although there was blood running from his mouth, and brought up a tentacle with dark lightning around it and hit John with it.

"John!" Katie yelled. Tears ran from her eyes as she looked at the three knocked over.

She gritted her teeth, "Stop it! Stop hurting them!" Darkmon looked at her and grinned, "Shut up you." He then tightened his grip on her. She cried in pain as it became hard to breathe.

"Katie!" Wizardmon yelled, and got up, then grabbed his staff again and shot Darkmon in the same place. Darkmon yet again yelled and pain. His tentacles began to move as he couldn't control the pain anymore and rammed his claw into Wizardmon's side. Wizardmon cried in pain as Katie and John looked over at him and screamed his name.

John tried to get up, but fell back down; his leg was bleeding too badly.

"Wizardmon! Wizardmooooon!" Katie cried as tears ran from her eyes.

Wizardmon tried his best to move but Darkmon's claw dug deeper into his side. Wizardmon grunted from the pain, shivering as he placed his hands on his claw trying to remove it.

Darkmon grinned, although blood was dripping from his mouth really badly now, "You and I will die and go to hell together."

Wizardmon looked up at him angrily, "Never!" He then slowly, but as quickly as he could, picked up his hand and shot another attack on Darkmon's wound.

"No!" Darkmon yelled then shattered into a million pieces, then Katie fell to the ground.

Wizardmon breathed heavily and soon began to collapse. Katie got up quickly and caught him, then slowly lied him down. Wizardmon kept shivering, and breathed really heavily. Blood leaked from his wound quickly. Katie looked over at it then removed her jacket and placed it on his wound. She put a lot of pressure on it," It'll be alright. We'll get you to a doctor."

Wizardmon picked up his shivering hand and placed it on top of Katie's hand, "I'm sorry….it's too late…for a doctor."

Katie shook her head and cried, "No! It can't be! We won! We don't deserve to loose you."

"I'm sorry…Katie…" Wizardmon sighed and held her hand.

Katie shook her head again as more tears ran from her face, she ran her hands through his hair. His wound was so deep, that he was already running a very high fever.
Wizardmon clenched her hand even more," Katie…promise me this though..."

Katie looked down at him and nodded.

Back at the home, Kotori calmed down and then began to chirp sadly.

"Look Paul, she's calmed down," Sarah said.

Paul looked up at her, "She's singing a rather sad tune. She looks sad, even for a bird."

Kotori then flapped her wings again, and flew into Katie's room with Paul and Sarah following her.

They gasped at the sight, Katie wasn't in her bed. And the window was open, wind and rain was blowing in. Sarah quickly went over and closed it, then Paul looked out.

"Hey…where is Fang?" Paul asked as Sarah looked out also to see him missing.

"Not sure," Sarah said then turned around to see something odd on the desk. It looked like some odd device, a certain odd device.

"Hey…what's this?" Sarah asked as she picked it up and Paul walked over to her to see what it was.

"Promise me this…promise me…that everyone will stay as happy as they are now…that …you and John will be happy together…that…that you will get better and …and most importantly…you wont get depressed over me," Wizardmon said as his eyes grew very heavy and his breathing decreased.

Tears ran from John's face. 'I'm not the type of person who cries, but to see them both in so much pain from sadness …it just hurts. And I know…none of us will ever be as happy again…without …him,' John thought to himself, and looked over at them to see Katie nod her head yes, say "I'll stay by your side till this is over", and rub her hand against his cheek. Fang got up weakly, looked around, then saw Wizardmon injured. He barked and began to run up to him, but John stopped him and held him tight, "It's alright boy. I know you're upset, but we need to leave them alone for now."

Fang whined as his head and tail dropped low. John hugged Fang, and buried his head in his fur and cried harder.

Wizardmon looked up at Katie and breathed, "Katie…"

She looked down at him and smiled wryly," Yes?"

"Katie…give me…give me one last goodnight kiss."

Katie smiled and coughed out a laugh with tears still running from her face, her lip trembled and she nodded her head yes. She pulled down his collar, and just like Darkmon…blood was running from his mouth. But she didn't care and bent down and placed a slight kiss on his lips.

Wizardmon looked up at her, his eyes barely open, and smiled, "Goodnight…Katie."

Tears ran from Katie's eyes, "Goodnight…I love you."

Wizardmon tried his best to whisper "I love you too." But his head fell back as his eyes closed shut.

It was silent, Katie shook her head as she ran her hand against his cheek. Tears running more and more from her eyes.

"No…no…NO!" She picked him up and hugged him tight. She cried really hard and held him even closer. Soon his legs began to turn into pixels as it went up toward his head.

Katie shook her head even more," No…please…no!" Soon he was gone, all that was left was a very large puddle of blood, and Katie's jacket covered in blood.

"No! Wizardmon!" Katie cried as she slammed her fist into his puddle of blood.

Tears streamed from John's eyes also, he and Fang looked over, then got up and walked over to her. Katie began to cough really hardly, as she has been out in the rain too much with her high fever. John took off his jacket and placed it on Katie, she cried then quickly got up, spun around and buried her head into his chest and cried even harder. John cried too, and placed his chin on her head and hugged her close, Fang joined into the crying and howled loudly.

They soon walked back, Fang and John limped as John carried Katie back. They opened the door, and in the kitchen waited David, Paul, and Sarah…they seemed really concerned. Once Sarah spotted them, she jumped up, calling her sister's name, and was ready to hug them…but stopped.

"Hey…what's wrong? Why is Fang and John hurt? And…where…where is Wizardmon?"

John put his head down, and shook his head.

"No…" Sarah said backing away as she clamped her hands over her mouth," No!" She buried her head into Paul's chest. Paul sighed and hugged her, "Now I understand why Kotori was acting so weird…she sensed Wizardmon's pain."

"Damnit! DAMNIT! DAMNIT! DAMNIT!" David yelled, kicking and punching the kitchen counters.

"Calm down, we're all upset," John said as he started to carry Katie back to her room, "But it doesn't make it any better for her."

David calmed down and nodded.

Everyone had a funeral for him in the area that he had died. Since it was dark during the fight, no one noticed, but it was the place where he found Kotori. Kotori was also at the funeral, she sat upon a branch and sang a sad tune. Everyone (even toughie David) bawled, they all loved him dearly. He was the one who kept them together. Everyone had flowers to place there, Fang placed his favorite bone, and Kotori bit off a feather and placed it there. Before they left, Paul stopped and pulled out the digivice from his pocket. He looked down at it, then back at the grave. He walked over to it and set the digivice down.

"Are you coming, Paul!" Sarah yelled.

"Yeah! I'm coming," Paul said and ran toward her, kissing her on the lips as he caught up.

The digivice glowed, and then Kotori stopped singing her sad tune and then switched to the happy one and flew off.