DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN DIGIMON

Chapter 9: Trial Separations

The four kids stood at the river, watching as Kirk ran off with Tapirmon into the distance. The siren was heard again, this time it was much closer. "Lets run!" Ryu shouted. They started running off away from the village, staying near the river. They didn't get far away when another siren sounded. This time it came from less than a mile away. All of the kids stood still as Dorumon and Wizardmon prepared for an encounter. Sirens sounded from all around them. They sounded again and again, each time coming closer. They were completely surrounding the kids.

"Shit! What should we do?" Shantelle said "There has to be at least twenty of them."

"How the hell should we know? Damn, why did Kirk leave?" Ryu said.

A siren sounded from above them. "Airdramon" The digivice identified a flying digimon high above them with a tamer riding it. Airdramon circled in the sky for a moment before diving strait down at the kids. Airdramon pulled up just a few meters away from them. The tamer jumped off of Airdramon and landed right in front of the kids and said, "You there," He pointed at the kids, "This is a secure area. Get out immediately! There are criminals on the loose in this area charged with Attacking a local shop owner and robbing his store. They are very powerful and killed over thirty digimon with only one digimon. I repeat, leave the area immediately"

"You heard the guy. We should leave. Wouldn't want to have a run in with those psychos." Shantelle said to the rest of them. She started to casually walk off toward the village when another tamer walked towards her. The guy was wearing a suit of armor and was being followed by a large blue crab. "Crabmon" He knocked Shantelle over as he walked past her. He didn't apologize. He only walked past her and up to the other tamer.

"Hey you jackass! Are you gonna apologize to me or will I have to beat the apology out of you?" Shantelle yelled at the tamer in armor.

"Excuse me for a moment please." The tamer in armor walked away from the other tamer and up to Shantelle. "What is your name little girl?" He asked her in a mock nice voice.

"I'm Shantelle the digidestined, and don't you forget it."

"Is that so? General, I believe we've found the criminals." The other tamer looked at the rest of the kids and smiled. "Men, come out! Arrest those kids! I'll take care of this brat." He grabbed Shantelle by the neck and easily chucked her into a tree. She hit it with a loud crack. The tree trunk had broken and fallen down and Shantelle's unconscious body lay on top of it.

"Shit! How the hell did you do that?" Ryu yelled at the man in armor.

"Shut up or you'll be next!" The man yelled at Ryu. Ryu flinched as he yelled this. The man brought his fingers to his lips and blew an extremely high pitched whistle. On cue, over thirty men in leather armor walked out of the surrounding jungle with all different kinds of rookie digimon. Dorumon started growling at all of them while Wizardmon just raised his staff in the air. "Call your digimon off or else we will be forced to destroy them. You're outnumbered and overpowered. Give up!" The man in armor yelled.

Sparks came out of Wizardmon's staff and surrounded the children. "MAGICAL GAME!" this time, not only did Wizardmon multiply, but there were ten copies of all of the digidestined.

"Run for it!" The real Ryu yelled. All of the copies and originals ran off in in different directions but with one of each person in a group. While he ran off, Ryu quickly grabbed Shantelle and pulled her with him. In all of the confusion the tamers didn't know which kids were the real ones. They had their digimon attack everything in sight. The group the real Ryu was in had managed to get away unharmed. They ran for a few miles until they decided that they were safe enough.

"That was a great move Wizardmon!" Ryu said to Wizardmon. Suddenly Wizardmon disappeared. "Whoa! What's happening?" Everyone around him started disappearing until it was only him and Shantelle. He got a look of terror in his face. "SHIT! I got into the wrong group with the clones. Damn it! I wonder if the rest of them got separated also."

He walked over to a rock wall and laid Shantelle down. He sat down next to her and started thinking, 'Hmmmm. What should I do? How am I gonna find the rest of them? What the hell am I gonna do if we get attacked? Dorumon isn't here!' "OH NO!" 'Dorumon looked like he was gonna kill Kasume back at the shop. If I'm not there he might just do that!' "Wake up Shantelle! We gotta find Dorumon!" He shook Shantelle trying to wake her up but she was still unconscious. 'Damn it! She won't wake up.' Ryu pulled out his digivice and started pushing buttons. 'How do I activate the map. Kasume showed me how earlier but I forgot.' He kept on pushing buttons when he accidentally activated an option called phone. 'Great there's a phone!' "Darn it! I don't have her number!" 'I need to learn to use this thing.'

He kept pushing buttons until he finally got the map to pop up on the screen. "Okay, I think the blue dots are us, the yellow are digimon and white are other humans. What do the purple dots represent?" On the map there were two blue dots in the center, a blue dot and a yellow dot in the lower right, and a blue and a yellow dot in the upper right. Towards the right were many pairs of white and yellow dots spreading out in all directions. North of them were two purple dots, off of the map, on arrows pointing upwards. "Either Kasume is with Wizardmon and Hikaru is with Dorumon, or Kasume is with Dorumon and Hikaru is with Wizardmon. I really hope it's the first one."

He stood up and grabbed some twister fruits from a tree. He hadn't had any breakfast or lunch, and after being tortured and running from the guys in armor, he was starving. He tried to wake Shantelle up again but failed so he just ate the fruit without her. Afterwards he just dosed off to sleep.

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Kasume ran as fast as she could with the rest of the digidestined, followed closely behind by the tamer riding Airdramon, the tamer in armor, and his Crabmon. As she ran she noticed that Ryu was starting to disappear. "What's happening to you Ryu?" Kasume asked as she continued running. Before an answer could be given, Ryu vanished into thin air. Kasume looked to Hikaru to see if he could give her an explanation as to what had happened to Ryu. Hikaru vanished before her eyes in the same way that Ryu had. Kasume stopped running from the shock of seeing two of her friends just disappear. Now, the only ones with her were Shantelle, Wizardmon, and Dorumon.

The tamer that was on Airdramon took this opportunity to catch up to Kasume and the rest of them. He was soon just meters away from them. Kasume slowly walked backwards, away from the digimon that was about to attack her. The next thing that the tamer saw was Dorumon and Shantelle disappearing into thin air. Kasume took another step backwards and disappeared from view, leaving only Wizardmon to fight the Airdramon.

"THUNDER BLASTER!" Wizardmon shot a blast from his staff at Airdramon. The attack hit Airdramon right in the face but it didn't seem to harm it at all. "THUNDER BLASTER!" Wizardmon shot another blast at Airdramon, but it didn't hurt him either.

The tamer looked at Wizardmon for a few seconds before saying, "Must be another one of the Clones. Airdramon, lets go and find the real one." The tamer and his Airdramon began leaving just as the other tamer in armor and his Crabmon appeared. "Don't bother with that one its just another clone" The first tamer told him.

"Yes General Leon." The second tamer said. He turned around and began to follow The first tamer, General Leon. "THUNDER BLASTER!" Wizardmon shot this blast at Crabmon and it knocked him into a tree. "General you may be wrong about that digimon! Crabmon digivolve!" The tamer in armor brought out his digivice and a deck of cards. As this happened the general stopped to watch the battle. The tamer in armor pulled a blue card out of the deck and swiped it through his digivice. "CRABMON DIGIVOLVE TO EBIDRAMON"

The blue crab digimon that the tamer in armor had, digivolved to a huge lobster digimon. "Now Ebidramon, attack" "TWIN SCISSOR" Ebidramon Leapt at Wizardmon and grabbed him with his claws. He tightened his hold on Wizardmon until Wizardmon was nearly crushed by the pressure. When the hold became too tight Wizardmon dedigivolved to Candlemon. Ebidramon let go of his grip on Candlemon and slapped him with his tail. The slap knocked Candlemon several meters back. Ebidramon charged at Candlemon and slapped him again with his tail before Candlemon even hit the ground. This time Ebidramon slapped Candlemon strait up into the air. Airdramon caught Candlemon in his mouth as Candlemon was thrown in the air.

"Airdramon, lower yourself to the ground." Commanded General Leon. Airdramon slowly hovered downwards toward the ground. Once on the ground, General Leon got off of Airdramon and examined the digimon that was in his jaws. Candlemon struggled to get away from Airdramon but couldn't. General Leon examined him a little more before saying, "Where is your tamer"

"Screw you!" Candlemon yelled at him. "I wont tell you where Kasume is!"

"So your tamers name is Kasume, is it? Good. Now that we have a name it will be much easier to track this bitch down. What are the rest of their names?" Leon asked him

"I'm not telling you anything you jerk!"

"Oh, you wont? Then I guess if you wont talk, we have no use for you. This is your last chance to tell us! Tell us their names and we'll let you go free. If you don't tell us their names then I'll have Airdramon crush you in his mouth. Think this over a moment! If you die then your dear tamer will not have anyone to protect her. If you just tell us the names of the other digidestined than you can go off and protect her. So what'll it be? Hmm?"

"Fine." Candlemon said. "The other girl's name is Shantelle and the two boy's names are Ryu and Hikaru. Now let me go"

"Last names! We need their full names, not just their first names!"

Candlemon thought it over for a moment. "I don't know if they have last names. Never talked about it to me. I haven't even had a conversation with any of them."

"Fine! Airdramon as we promised we'll let him go … IN A PIT!" Leon yelled. He and Airdramon went to a hole nearby and dropped Candlemon in it.

"OUCH!"

"What's this?" Leon looked into the pit. The pit was about fifteen feet deep and at the bottom of it, underneath Candlemon, was Kasume. "So that's where you went to. This pit is a good Four, five meters maybe? I don't think you can get out of it so instead of taking you into custody, I'll just leave you here to die." Leon jumped onto Airdramon and they took off. As he left he yell to the tamer in armor, "Matthews, We're going to find the rest of them, hurry up."

The other tamer, Matthews, Looked around quickly. Nearby there was a branch of the river. He and Ebidramon went to the river and Matthews pulled out his cards and digivice. "Dedigivolve, Ebidramon!" Ebidramon dedigivolved into Crabmon. Matthews drew a blue card and swiped it through his digivice. "CRABMON DIGIVOLVE TO DOLPHMON." This time, when Crabmon digivolved, he turned into a large dolphin instead of the lobster. Dolphmon jumped into the river and Matthews jumped onto Dolphmon's back and they sped off up the river.

Kasume and Candlemon were left in the hole. "Now what do we do?" Kasume didn't know what they were going to do, trapped in the hole. "Maybe you could digivolve into Wizardmon again and do that thing where you make clones of yourself. Then we could make a human … Er digimon ladder and climb out of here."

"I don't have enough energy for that." Candlemon said in a depressed tone. "Maybe if I ate something and had a nice nap I could have the energy."

"Unfortunately we don't have any food so we'll have to sleep hungry." Kasume's stomach growled when she said this. "I haven't had any food all day. I should have just ignored Akamaru when he said we should find the symbols-"

"Crests" Candlemon interrupted.

"-before we eat anything. We are so stupid. I AM SO STUPID" Kasume started getting tears in her eyes, "If I hadn't left Ryu when we first came here, I would never have let Akamaru know we were digidestined in the first place, he wouldn't have attacked us and he wouldn't have broken Ryu's leg and kidnapped him …" Kasume was now crying heavily "… And he would have never tortured Ryu. Leomon would still be alive and so would Centarumon. And it's all my fault!" Neither her nor Candlemon talked anymore for the rest of the day or once night began to fall but Kasume silently cried the whole time.