MK25: YAY! We're back and he's up!
Grady: You gave me a concussion
MK25: You put a 3-inch depression in my skull.
Grady: I was in a coma for three days
MK25: It…never mind. In case your wondering, I was sort of laying low cause I probably royally screwed with some people in the 8th chapter.
Grady: Not to mention school was killing him and the breaks screwed him up. But now, writer's block. "Her quirky sense of humor."
MK25:Did you have to quote Serendipity from Dogma.
Grady: No, but I did. Well, in this chapter-
MK25: Dude, shut up! I hate spoilers.
Grady: Then why do you watch Cheat to see how a game ends?
MK25: No comment. HEY, Wait a minute…

Chapter 10: Mother Earth's Anger.

The team was trekking through a desert. The heat was starting to get to them. They kept on, knowing that someone was up this direction.

(flashback)Gavin was just waking up from a good nights rest. He checked around to make sure everyone was ok. That's when he noticed Grady was missing.
'He was supposed to wake me up to watch.' Gavin thought 'I should of known something was up.'
"Guys, wake up, Grady's gone!" He shouted to the rest of the team. Some of them were surprised. Some were mad.
"Why so early?" Luna yawned.
"I already told you, Grady is gone!"
Everyone but Elecmon gasped, where as Elecmon started to cry. "I can't believe he would leave without me." He muttered.
"Hey," Karina knelt by the small digimon. "I'm sure he had reasons for going. Maybe he had some personal problems to sort out-"
"Or maybe he was kidnapped." Chris interrupted.
"Hey everyone," Gotsumon called for the team. "I found somethin'!"
They rushed over to Gotsumon. When they realized what they were called over for, everyone had mixed emotions. In front of them lay Grady's goggles.
"No," Gavin uttered. "No, NO, he had to have gone somewhere!"
Gavin ran of in a random direction after grabbing the goggles. Everyone followed suit.(end of flashback).

By now, Luna was getting a piggyback ride from Karina, Will was getting a ride from Harpymon, and everyone was sweating expect for Meramon. However, Gavin wasn't exhausted for the heat yet.
"It's so hot!" Luna whined.
"We're in the middle of a desert," Gavin snapped back. "What did you expect?"
"For it to be cooler than this."
"I've been up this way before," Cerberumon stated. "So, if I remember correctly, we should see an oasis soon."
"Whew, bout time," Luci sighed. "I'm need a drink."
"I see it up ahead!" Will shouted down to the others. They looked in the distance and saw a green blur. They all knew they were close and started running. But it was farther than they thought because the ones that ran were exhausted to the point of unconsciousness. They fell flat on their backs at the side of the oasis.
"Al…right," Gavin huffed. "We…take a…quick…break and…get back…to searching."
"Water!" Luna shouted as she almost dove into the cooling depths.
Everyone did what they needed to do while at the oasis, such as take a drink, or sit in the shade of the trees to cool off, before heading out. But while everyone else was doing what they needed to do, Gavin sat back on the trunk of a tree facing out towards the way all of them were headed.
"What's up?" Biyomon surprised Gavin. He twitched a little, but not much came out of him. "So," the digimon continued. "Are we just searching aimlessly, or do you somehow know where Grady is?"
"Ever since I got here," Gavin replied, "I felt a greater connection with him than before. Almost as if I can never truly separate from him, cause I know exactly where he is."
"So we're headed in a certain direction because only you know where he is."
"That's what it seems like," He replied to the bird digimon. "At least to me." He stood up and faced the others. "Everyone ready!"
They all stopped what they were doing and headed to Gavin. "Then we leave."

Grady was running through a jungle of sorts. Though as he ran, while the trees surrounding him turned into a blur, he still managed to jump over the roots covering to floor. He stopped by what seemed to be the biggest tree of them all and caught his breath. He was panting heavily from the running he just did.
'Ah crap,' he thought, 'should of never left those goggles back with the others. Now they probably think I've been kidnapped…again!'
'When was the first time?' Thurderscythemon's voice resonated in his mind.
'The Bakemon…'
'Ah yes, that unfortunate event-.'
'Don't remind me.'
'Do not worry about that now,' Thunderscythemon said to him 'Just worry about what's going on now.'
'You're right. Let's keep going.' He ended the conversation and bolted off into the distance.

Gavin was checking up on Luci before they set off again. They had stopped a few yards from the oasis when Luci collapsed due to these injures.
"How you doin'?" Gavin asked her.
"Pretty good. My arm doesn't hurt, it was just the leg," She said as she dabbed the large cut with a piece of cloth she teared from her shirt, trying to get the sand off the still barely open wound. "I should be fine in a day or so."
"Good to hear," He replied happily. "You need any help walking?"
"No, I just have a limp on this leg. I can walk by myself."
"Hey!" Meramon called out to them. "Are we leaving or what?
"Yeah, I'm ready!" Luci called out to the rest of the team.
No sooner than Luci got up, the earth under their feet trembled and quaked.
"What's happening?" Luna managed to stutter out before stumbling to the ground
"A quake!" Will wondered aloud.
"No, It can't be." Chris simply answered his question.

Just as suddenly as it started, however, it stopped, leaving more questions for the already confused team. But Chris zoned out after the quake stopped, as if he saw something. He gasped in fear as he realized what was going on.
"Luna, look out!" Chris jumped to save her just in time. Just moments after Chris' little save, a humongous wave of sand toppled hundreds of feet over them.
"Thanks, I guess" Luna said to her savior, thrown into a stupor by her near-death experience.
When the sand wave settled on the ground, a large scorpion-like creature stood in front of them. However, the legs and stinger were replaced with blades and a second pair of claws brandished blades on the ends. A large set of jet black eyes barely stuck out of the top of the head, and another set was almost unnoticeable in the middle of the head.
"What is that!" Gavin screamed.
"Scorpiomon!" Elecmon called out.
"So you are the digidestined that my master sent me out for?" Scorpiomon questioned. "Bah, You're nothing but a bunch of kids."
"Yeah," Karina called out. "Well we'll see about that."
Karina, Gavin, and Luci turned into their warrior forms and got ready to fight. As soon as Gavin got him in his sights, he rushed in, blade ready. He leaped up about 40 feet in the air. But by the time he got down enough to hit Scorpiomon, it disappeared into the sand. They swept the area for him until a voice shouting "TAIL BLADE!" was heard. Gavin just barely escaped getting stabbed when Scorpiomon's tail lurched up to nail him.
"Jeez, that was close!" Gavin hollered. As soon as the tail disappeared into the sand, they lost track of him.
"As long as he's in the sand, we're toast." Luci said
"The coward!" Karina shouted punching into the ground.
Once she punched the ground, Scorpiomon came up and knocked all of them into the sky, Each of them landing face first into the ground, knocked out of consciousness and form on contact with the ground. Scorpiomon was about to finish them off when Elecmon intervened.

"SUPER THUNDER STRIKE!"

Elecmon used his attack to help out but all it did was aggravate Scorpiomon. Though it was useless, Elecmon kept attacking until he was swatted away by Scorpiomon's tail.As Elecmon lay there, Chris thought, 'If I could only help them, but I'm just not strong enough,' He thought as he felt helpless for a few long moments. 'But that's not going to stop me!' He started to run off towards the battlefield. By the time the others could stop him, he had already started to egg on Scorpiomon.
"C'mon, you coward!" He screamed into the distance. "Why don't try that stuff on me, ya eight-legged freak excuse for a true digimon!"
This obviously irritated Scorpiomon for he started to attack repeatedly with his tail blade, But every attack was quickly dodged, as if the attack was expected.
Karina had just awoken to see this sight along with all the others that were conscious.
"How on Earth is he doing that?" She muttered to herself.
Chris wore himself out dodging attacks left and right. But Scorpiomon attacked once again with his tail blade. Chris didn't have enough energy to flee from the next attack, so he braced himself for the attack. But, before the attack came, it stopped suddenly. It was then when Chris opened his eyes and saw why the attack never hit. He saw his crystal's tan glow envelop him and Gotsumon. When the light died down, a most amazing transformation had happened.
Instead of a humanoid appearance, a creature much like Gotsumon stood in front of the group, except twice as tall and with spaces between the rocks, as if held together by an invisible force. Two smaller rocks were orbiting around his body from the left shoulder to the right hip and back around. He also appeared to have no eyes. Scorpiomon tried to take another whack at Chris, but he simply sunk into the sand.
Everyone waited amazed on the surface; not only at what had happened, but that Scorpiomon hadn't launched an attack. Just about then, Scorpiomon shot out of the sand and into the sky. Chris was right behind him preparing to finish him off.

"ROCK STREAM!"

He threw his arm toward Scorpiomon and the rocks once orbiting Chris followed the trajectory. The rocks moved so fast that they appeared to multiply. Before converging on their target, they separated from their parallel path and crossed when they hit Scorpiomon. They passed straight through Scorpiomon's body and returned back to Chris as he returned the ground. Scorpiomon's body quartered with the cuts of the rocks when they passed through him before disintegrating to data. Chris then returned to his original form with Gotsumon at his side and returned to the others as they were helping Gavin, Karina, and Luci.
"We have no time to rest anymore," Chris said flatly. "We must hurry."

Finally, Grady had reached his destination. It was a clearing in the middle of the jungle. In the center of this clearing was a sword, stuck straight into a large rock. The hilt was adorned with seven pearl-sized jewels, each a color of the rainbow.
"This is what you said could help me?" Grady thought.
"Yes." A familiar voice stated, "This sword is magical. You can use it to face the demons you have."
Grady approached the stone and had a better look at the blade. It was a wide, double-edged sword that he immediately recognized.
"A gladius?" Grady whispered. "looks pretty sharp."
Then he noticed the hilt gleaming in the evening sun. he saw the jewels in the hilt and knew what they represented.
"An element empowered sword!" Grady gasped.
"Yes," Thunderscythemon said. "And it's meant for you."
"How do you know?"
"It's written in the stone."
"Whatever, I'll check it later..."
He grabbed the hilt and pulled the sword out with ease. "King Albert all over again."

The sword started to glow white, then black as it shot a black light to the end of the clearing. The light started to form some sort of being. When the sword stopped glowing, in front of Grady was a familiar creature.
"You…" Grady said.
"What, surprised to see me?" The creature said.
"Use the sword to defeat the dark reflection of you." Thunderscythemon stated.
"Yes, I'm going to end this, once and for all!"

MK25 is hiding under his bed.
Grady: I don't know what your seeing, but I don't see anything but clothes!
MK25: I swear, it's there.
Grady: You amaze me sometimes. Are you serious about this, or are you finding a way to hide from the reviews.
MK25: I swear, It's the closet!
Grady: Ugh-
MK25 screams like a little girl.
Grady: WHAT NOW!
MK25: UFC is on, change the channel back to spike!