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Chapter 6: Ryu gets Kidnapped.

The kabuterimon were slowly closing in on the remaining three digidestined. 'Enjoy your last minutes on earth.' Akamaru told them. Hikaru, Shantelle, and Kasume were cowering in fear of the digimon, while Ryu was passed out of the floor with a broken leg.

'If only we had our own digimon!' Kasume thought. 'Huh what's that?' She saw a glint of light on the floor. The light slowly changed shape to the symbol of intelligence. 'Maybe this has to do with the second task!' Kasume brought out her digivice and pointed it at the light. In a beam of light the intelligence symbol left her digivice. At the same time the symbol on the floor did the same thing. The two beams met in midair and created a blinding light throughout the cavern.

The light touched her body and made her feel weak. So weak she could barely move. She looked around and could tell that the same thing was happening to everyone else, including the kabuterimon. The light made the kabuterimon so weak that they all dedigivolved into Tentomon. The Megakabuterimon that was standing next to Akamaru only dedigivolved into a kabuterimon.

Inside of the light Kasume saw another hologram of the girl she saw earlier. The girl looked at her and said "So it seems you found the cave of destiny and the crests. She looked past Kasume and said "didn't I tell you not to trust tamers. Anyways you've earned your digiegg. It'll hatch when you prove yourself worthy of the symbol. Hopefully you survive that long. This'll help a little but be careful, the rookie digimon still are stronger than humans."

"What's this? What are you doing to my digimon? Kabuterimon, attack her before you dedigivolve again!" Akamaru yelled.

Kabuterimon charged at Kasume but she was busy staring at the light. In the place where the two symbols met there was a ball of blue light that transformed into a blue egg. The egg floated towards Kasume and landed in her hands.

"BEETLE HORN ATTACK!" kabuterimon charged towards Kasume, but she saw him and jumped to the side just in time to keep him from stabbing her. Instead his horn went and hit her arm, knocking the egg out of her hands.

"You Again! Have another taste of my FIST OF THE BEAST KING!" Leomon crawled out of the hole made by Megakabuterimon. And shot his attack at kabuterimon. His attack hit the other digimon in the back. Kabuterimon turned around to face Leomon.

"ELECTRO SHOCKER" Kabuterimon sent a ball of lightning towards Leomon. Leomon jumped out of the way and the attack hit the cavern wall.

"What are you doing kabuterimon? Attack the children! Leave him to me!" Akamaru yelled.

"No you don't. FIST OF THE BEAST KING!" This time Leomon aimed at Akamaru. The attack came towards him but kabuterimon flew in the way of the attack. Leomon's attack hit him so hard that kabuterimon started breaking up into data that floated away.

"Darn you kabuterimon! Tentomon! All of you, Pick up that child on the floor and lets get out of here" Akamaru yelled. All of the Tentomon picked up Ryu and flew out of the hole in the cavern. "Wait! You there, stay here." He pointed at one of the Tentomon. He then pulled out his deck of cards, chose one, swiped it, and said. "DIGI-MODIFY! HYPER SPEED ACTIVATE!" He hopped on the Tentomon's back and they flew out of the cavern at an unimaginable speed. As he flew away, he yelled, "If you want your friend back then give me that digiegg of yours! Hah Hah Ha" On his way out a small black box fell out of his pocket

"What are you kids doing out here?" Leomon asked angrily. "You could have all died! I told you not to leave the village! You are no good to us dead! But now that we know that he is one of the village's tamers, you cannot go back there. Until you children get your digimon, I shall not leave your sides."

"OH, The digiegg! I almost forgot." Kasume walked to where the digiegg had fallen and picked it up. "Leomon! Do you know what I'm supposed to do with this?"

"Ah, so that is what you came here for. Your digiegg was here. Unfortunately I do not know how to awaken the digimon inside. Centarumon knows it but it seems that he was destroyed. In order to find out we will need to take a journey to the Primary Village, where he has been reborn. But before we can leave, I must find you three a safe hiding place, for when I go to rescue the kidnapped child." Leomon said.

"Oh no! I forgot that Akamaru kidnapped Ryu. That bastard! He's going to kill him! What are we going to do?" Kasume said with tears in her eyes. She fell on her knees and started to cry. "I'm gonna give Akamaru my digiegg."

"What are you talking about Kasume! You cant do that!" Shantelle said to Kasume.

"She is right digidestined child. You cannot give up your digiegg to that fiend." Leomon said to her.

"But, Akamaru said he would give Ryu back to us if I give him my digiegg! If that is what I have to do then I don't care what you have to say! I'm gonna get Ryu back!" Kasume turned and bolted out of the cavern with tears still in her eyes.

"Wait Kasume! Akamaru could still be out there setting a trap for when we leave! Kasume stop!" Hikaru said as he ran out of the cavern after her. He was too slow and Kasume quickly got away from him. He stood watching her run away.

Shantelle walked up behind Hikaru and said "She's being an idiot! She is going to get herself killed if she keeps acting like this. don't worry though, Leomon left through the hole to go after her."

"AHHHH! LET ME GO! LEAVE ME ALONE! I'M GOING TO SAVE RYU WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!" Kasume screamed. Leomon walked back into the cave holding Kasume tightly around the wrist, dragging her along. "LEAVE ME ALONE LEOMON!" Kasume pulled her arm from his grip and ran back off out of the cave. "DON'T COME AFTER ME!"

Leomon went out of the cave after her and again dragged her back in with an even tighter grip. "Child, you are being too foolish! I am sorry, but I must do what I must to protect you." Leomon pulled out a long leather cord from his pocket and tied up Kasume's hands and feet with it. "Children, you must not let her leave this cave. I will return with Ryu." he said as he left.

Kasume squirmed around trying to get free. When it didn't work she started crawling away.

"Quit it Kasume. You're not leaving this cave." Shantelle grabbed her and knocked her to the floor. "you're being an idiot! Saving Ryu is something that we cant do. We have to leave it to Leomon."

"AHHHHHHHHH! LET ME GO!" Kasume screamed.

"Tapirmon Digivolve To Apemon." A tall boy wearing a black trench coat walked in with a large yellow ape. The boy had purple hair that was made into several big, rock hard spikes and had white makeup covering his entire face. He was also wearing black lipstick and black nail polish. On the back of his trench coat was a large, red pentagram. He seemed to be into the Goth style. His digimon, Apemon, had a large bone on its back.

"What are you two doing to that girl?" the boy said pointing at Hikaru and Shantelle. "Bullies piss me off." He pulled his digivice out of his coat pocket. It was black with red buttons. "Now for causing pain to that girl, I'm going to make you two feel immeasurable pain." He pulled a deck of cards out of his coat and pulled a blue colored card from the deck. He swiped it through his digivice and said, "Apemon Digivolve to Mammothmon!"

The Apemon that was with him transformed into a woolly mammoth digimon that had a metal plate covering its face and trunk. "Now you will pay for what you have done! Mammothmon Attack!"

Mammothmon charged towards Shantelle. "TUSK CRUSHER!"