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Thanks for the reviews. Here is Chapter #4!

"What now?" Zach asks. Everyone is walking though the forest, again.

"We find and help the girl," the gang cheers.

Meanwhile, watching them from the trees is Threadermon. "They are falling into my trap. Ha! And I thought these humans weren't gullible. Ha!"

Back with the gang, "I'm hungry." JP whines. Everyone rolls their eyes.

"You're always hungry, JP." Mike calls back to him. Suddenly, his stomach grumbles. "Ha, ha. I guess we could stop to eat." They all sweat drop.

Suddenly, everyone gets a message. "Children, I am still alive. Find my castle. Darkladymon has me trapped there. I need to tell you something important."

"Ophanimon!" Koji yells into his d-techer. But she doesn't answer. The message was sent. "I guess we find Ophanimon's castle first, then the girl."

"Hey, what is that?" Tommy points to a sign and runs toward it. "It says 'Town, 1 mile.' A town!" They all start running down the road.

"Wow! Look at all these shops!" Kouichi says in wonder, like a kid in a giant toy store.

"Hey! A restaurant!" Takuya spots a small food stand.

Minutes later, they walk away will still empty bellies. "Money. Everything here is all about money!" Zoe grumbles like her stomach.

"Well, let's keep looking around. We may get lucky." Bokomon says optimistically.

"Hey, what's that?" Neemon points toward something.

"Another sign! This one says 'Help wanted. Free Food' Cool!" Zach reads it.

Everyone looks down to Neemon. "Who are you and what did you do to our real Neemon?" Mike asks.

"Ah…who am I?" Everyone face faults except Neemon, still looking confused.

"Never mind," Mike sighs. They all run to the stand by the sign.

"Hi here. You said you needed help." Takuya taps on the table.

"Yes, we need help," a little Gatomon whispers as she steps out of the shadows. "A d-d-dark warrior is at-t-t-tacking us. Village b-b-burned, tortured-d-d." Four more Gatomon step out of the shadows behind the first. One had one ear cut off.

"Wait a minute." Tommy pulls himself up onto the table. "Do you mean the Threadermon?"

"Yes, she burns homes and takes strongest and scans them in the village square."

Takuya looks around at everyone. "We'll help you."

"Thank you," all the Gatomon hug them.

"No problem. We live to help." JP laughs.

"Of course you want some food." One of the Gatomon goes into the back and brings out a basket of fish and fruit. "Here you go. We will be in back while you eat." All the Gatomon disappear into the back of the stand.

"So… they fell for it," a laugh comes out of the shadows.

"Yes. Now, we would like our end of the deal," the head Gatomon steps forward with her paw out.

"That will come if you bring me all of them. I will be waiting at the top of Gate Mountain. If you do, you will get double what we originally planed. Now go." The voice disappears and the Gatomon go back out to the others.

"Now that you are full, you are to help us. Come on." The Gatomon lead them to a cliff. "We'll scale this cliff. At the top is our village, or what is left." The Gatomon starts forward.

"Wait. How are we going to scale this cliff?" Zoe stares at the side of the cliff.

"There is a 1 foot ledge. We follow that to a ladder that goes to the top." So Mike shrugs and follows the cat digimon.

"I will go up first." One Gatomon grabs a rope and wooden ladder and starts climbing. Then go Mike, JP, Takuya, Tommy, Koji, and Kouichi with and Gatomon between them every so often.

"Ladies…" Zach starts to offer Zoe the ladder, but she swings to smack him and misses. "Okay, I'll go first." He starts to climb the ladder fast. JP had looked down and laughs at Zach.

"I am wearing a skirt." She mumbles as she climbs up behind him.

Everyone is almost to the top when the wind suddenly blows and Tommy losses his grip. Lucky for him, Koji catches him. "Don't want to lose anyone." He smiles down at Tommy.

On a ledge above the cliff, Threadermon watches. "They still don't see the trap." She purrs to herself.

"Yes." A small Gatomon sits at her side.

"The wind is trying to warn them and even Kazemon and Mindamon don't feel it." She smiles and stands, "This will be much easier then I thought." Threadermon disappears into the shadows.

The gang finally makes it safely to the top. "Wow! She really is mean." The small huts were burned to the ground. Other Gatomon were repairing a larger, more important building.

"Where do you sleep?" Tommy asks the Gatomon.

"In a cave in the cliff above this ledge, higher up." She points to a cave in the side of the mountain.

"Wow!" Koji finds himself muttering.

"You children must rest now. The sun is setting and we won't find her in the dark." A Gatomon leads the to one of the large huts that were already repaired.

Soon the sun sets. Everyone falls a sleep except Koji and Takuya. "I have a bad feeling, Takuya." Koji confesses.

"What do you mean?"

"The Gatomon, they're being too nice. And I got a strange feeling down my back when they were in the kitchen. I think this isn't very smart."

"You always get those feelings." Takuya yawns, "We need to hit the sack. Night."

"Yeah, whatever."

Night gives off to day, and Koji and Takuya wake up first to find that they are all tied up hanging from the top of the cliff. "Told you, Takuya!" This wakes everyone up.

"AH!" Zach and Mike scream. The others just roll their eyes and yawn. "Why aren't you guys scared?"

"Because we have been tied up on a cliff before." Koji sighs. "Soon, the Gatomon will come and threaten Threadermon to cut our ropes letting us fall to our doom, thinking that we work together."

Just then, a cold laugh comes out of the cave just above them. "You're half right, wolf boy." Threadermon comes to the ledge and sit down to watches them squirm. "The Gatomon are working for me. The whole village was a image that you brats though up." The Gatomon come a join her. "You should have listened to your instincts."

"What are you going to do to us?" Tommy cries with tears in his eyes. "We know that you're human."

"Ha! You think I care about you." She hops down to their level. "Now I have an offer for you brats."

"WHAT?" they all ask instantly. Bokomon and Neemon just stare at her.

"You can live if you agree to join me and Darkladymon." She leans closer to them.

"Never!" Zach spits at her.

"I like them feisty. Oh well. Goodbye then. If you live, I will enjoy fighting you. " She jumps up to her Gatomon. "Cut them down. " She disappears.

"You heard her, cut the ropes." All the Gatomon were about to cut the ropes. But they were suddenly scanned.

"Huh?"

"I needed something to offer my master." Threadermon comes back. "And I felt like fighting you now." A ledge appears below them and the dark warrior chops the ropes.

"Execute, Spirit Evolution!"

"Lobomon!"

"Agunimon!"

"Kazemon!"

"Kumamon!"

"Beetlemon!"

"Loweemon!"

"Mindamon!"

"Seamon!"

"Goody, everyone is here!" Threadermon laughs. "Now to spilt you up. Devil's Diamond Whip!" She swings her whip. Cuts form on everyone's bodies.

"Howling Laser!" Lobomon calls out. She skillfully dodges it.

"Big Blue Blast!"

"Crystal Freeze!" The dark warrior jumps on each frozen water bullet. The last she used as a shield against and fire attack from Agunimon.

"Tornado's Boomerang"

"Thunder Fist!"

"Hurricane Winds" Kazemon's and Beetlemon's attacks helped Mindamon's but it still wasn't enough.

"Well, looks like you guys could use some help." She chuckled at them.

"Meteor Darkness!" A big ball of black energy came at her from behind. She still dodged it.

"My turn. Dark Landslide!" a huge wave of black earth appears out of thin air and pounded the ones on the ground. "Devil Diamond Whip!" She hits those in the air, sending them flying.

"Ah!" The ones in the air, Mindamon, Kazemon, Beetlemon and Seamon, were shot away and vanished with Bokomon. The others, Agunimon, Lobomon, Loweemon, and Kumamon, were buried under feet and feet of snow and earth then washed away into a hole in the ground along with Neemon.

"I guess I will take this mountain now." Threadermon scans Gate Mountain and laughs evilly.

me: Anyone having fun yet?

everyone but girl: NO!

girl: yes! Being evil is fun. But don't make me totally evil all the time.

me: OKAY! I'll have my fun till then.

Kouichi: At least I'm not the evil one.

Koji: Amen!

me: I wouldn't be so sure boys. (evil smile) Have your fun while you can. R and R people. The next chapter is coming to a computer near you.

Everyone: sigh!

Kouichi: Just get it over with!

me: Meany!