Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.

A/N: Sorry this takes so long. I've redone the Pilot Chapter and Chapter 6, adding more information for later chapters. In Chapter 5, I've mentioned the new mode of digivolution being called Mach Digivolution, but from this chapter onwards it'll be called Trans-digivolution.

VENGEANCE

Chapter 07 - Devimon Strikes Back, Part I

by Alforce Zero

"I have a score to settle with the child called T.K., and his digimon Patamon. I will make sure to terminate both of them. You'll figure out a way to deal with the rest."

"Fair enough. But, if you don't get the job done, I will see to it that my Chaos Generals will go and destroy you themselves."

"It will be done." Devimon smirked as he broke off the communication link between himself and Chaos Specter.

From the top of the peak of the Infinity Mountain, the tallest mountain on File Island, Devimon watched from a far as the Velvet Claw pulled out from the Blue Dragon Island on Seiryuu Archipelago. Using a viewing orb, which was given to him by Daemon at the World of Darkness before they parted ways, Devimon observed the battle between Chaos Specter's forces, which consisted of Skull Meramon and Okuwamon, being defeated by Angewomon and Mystimon.

"This lady angel digimon is the one who defeated that sissy four years ago," Devimon muttered as he remembered how Angewomon finished off Myotismon with her Celestial Arrow. "And what's this? A human and a digimon combined. What happened to the DNA digivolution?" he wondered to himself.

Devimon, the first major villain the Digidestined had to face, had returned to the File Island unnoticed just as Chaos Specter made his grand entry into the Digital World. He had acquired Daemon's ability to conjure up a digiport at will, enabling him to move back and forth from one dimension into another. As soon as he arrived on File Island, the first thing he did was to rebuild his dark fortress. It didn't take much energy from him to do that, he was able to construct a palace by himself using pure dark magic a long time ago. From there, he took his time to analyze and strategize his moves. It was then Chaos Specter had contacted him in the first place.

"Greetings, Devimon." Chaos Specter had begun their conversation. Devimon was quite surprised that a human such as Chaos Specter would be able to contact him just as he had descended back on the Digital World. Curious, Devimon carried on.

"Who are you?"

"An inter-dimensional Digital World conqueror who goes by the name of Chaos Specter."

The name rang a bell. "So you're the one who managed to capture the Harmonious Ones without much effort?"

"So you've heard of me. I have to say that you flatter me by saying that I managed to capture the four guardians without putting too much effort. I have my Chaos Generals to thank for that." Chaos Specter introduced Chaos WarGreymon, Chaos Piedmon and Chaos Seadramon to him while Devimon observed with mild interest. But he had to admit that he was impressed that Chaos Specter, being a human, managed to control three powerful and exceptional Mega digimons. His interest somehow elevated when Chaos Specter told him about the destruction of the Digidestined's digivices, and the new power they had gained from the Diginizers.

"It has the power to fuse a Digidestined with his or her partner digimon," Chaos Specter explained, and proceeded by showing him the battle footage between Angewomon and his minions, Megadramon and Gigadramon.

"What is it that you really want?" Devimon decided to get straight to the point.

"How about if you work for me alongside my Chaos Generals to finish off the Digidestined?"

Devimon scowled. "No, I've said this once to a fellow Mega digimon and I'm going to repeat this again. I work solo. Besides, I only have one particular Digidestined and digimon in mind."

"Do they happen to be the Digidestined of Hope, T.K. and his partner Patamon?"

"What do you know about them?"

"Only that they haven't acquire the ability to fuse together. At least not yet."

"That's good news. And how about the DNA digivolution?"

"Seems like they still have the ability."

"Very well." Devimon made sure to put a tone of finality in his statement. Besides, he didn't like the idea of having to face Shakkoumon should T.K. teamed up with his DNA partner.

Chaos Specter caught the hint instantly. "Consider my offer. We'll see each other again, my friend." With that, the communication link was terminated, leaving the proud fallen angel to start reconsider the offer that Chaos Specter presented to him earlier. Devimon didn't like the idea of working under anyone, not even to a superior digimon such as Daemon. But if he played his cards correctly, having Chaos Specter as a superior, temporarily, might be advantageous to him. The human had the power to overcome the four most powerful digimons, and commanded three exceptional Mega digimons as well. Devimon shuddered to think that Chaos Specter could easily command his three generals to subdue him anytime he wanted, just like he did with the Harmonious Ones. If that ever happen, then his chances of getting revenge would be nullified.

But, the powers that Daemon gave him weren't useless. As a Champion, Devimon had the power level rivaling any Ultimate digimon, thanks to his training and experience, and also to the fact that he did not experience reconfigurations. Digimon that was reborn after being deleted, such as Patamon, tend to weaken a little although if given time, the digimon would be able to make up for the loss of their powers. The fact that Angemon had successfully digivolved into Magna Angemon during the fight with Piedmon proved that.

'Unfortunately though, without its partner, a digimon belonged to a Digidestined couldn't go beyond Champion level. It would take an immense amount of external power source to energize them enough to become Ultimate. And T.K and Patamon never managed to fuse yet.' Devimon thought with grim satisfaction. 'But if he becomes Shakkoumon, and with that Imperialdramon on his side, my chance to fight him is nil. I need some digimons to back me up.'

Devimon made up his mind, and contacted Chaos Specter the next day. "It didn't take you long to make up your mind, my friend," Chaos Specter had said to him in an almost mocking tone.

"This will be temporary. I have no intention to become one of your slaves." Devimon spat back, but keep his tone cool.

"I like your attitude. Your serv.. well, alliance, will be of use to me."

"I have a few requirements, though."

"Inferior digimon such as the likes of you have no right to make deals with me," Chaos Specter replied back coolly. "But, like I said earlier, I like your attitude. No digimon have the nerve to be so forward like that. I'm listening."

"I need some back-ups."

Chaos Specter chortled. "I would send my generals, but I doubt that they want to work with you."

"Just some digi-eggs will do just fine."

"You can easily steal some from the Primary Village."

"I don't want to cause uproar by appearing in front of that Elecmon."

"Why bother when that fortress of yours can easily be seen by anyone?"

"It's magically cloaked. But how do you know about the fortress?"

"The computers on my ship can detect anything even if it's magically cloaked, as you said. What do you plan to do with the digi-eggs?"

"For them to become my very own servants."

"Evil... I like that. Very well then." Chaos Specter terminated the communication, and six digi-eggs appeared in front of Devimon.

Devimon smiled indignantly to himself. "Now let's see whether I can work on Daemon's ability to digivolve these digi-eggs." He closed his eyes and spread his wings and hands wide. Black aura began to glimmer around him as Devimon called fourth the power Daemon had given him earlier. From his wings came six black energy beams entering the digi-eggs, and Devimon instantly felt the bond between him and the future digimons that would hatch from the eggs. However, Devimon didn't really manage in perfecting this ability, thus he knew that the procedure would drain a lot of his powers, and he would need to take a couple of days to recuperate.

The digi-eggs hatched instantly and with Devimon's powers and Devimon didn't even bother to use his digital DNAs as he would use whatever digimons he had in his disposal for his own evil purposes. Granted, Chaos Specter would have given him suitable digi-eggs to fit his needs. Six forms began to take place, and Devimon was awed when six Champion and Armor digimons materialized in front of him. He was expecting Rookies to begin with, but his powers must had elevated beyond normal Champion digimons.

The first digimon that caught his attention was an exact replica of him, the only different that the digimon was fully white in color, and had a chilling aura surrounding him. He was Ice Devimon, an icy version of Devimon himself.

Next was a digimon whom Devimon had never seen before. He looked a lot like Wizardmon, only that his garbs were crimson instead of purple. He had a sly expression plastered on his face. The digimon was known as Flame Wizardmon.

Standing beside Flame Wizardmon was a tall and thin blue humanoid dragon-like digimon with two wooden swords was an Armor digimon known as Yashamon, whom Devimon had never seen before as well. He looked like a digimon whom Veemon would digivolve into, so Devimon concluded that Yashamon must be one of Veemon's possible digivolutionary level.

The fourth digimon was shorter than Yashamon, whom Devimon recognized only too well as Musyamon. Next was another short purple ninja-like digimon whom Devimon realized must be a viral version of the data type Ninjamon. Finally, Devimon set eyes on a dragon version of himself, whom he would have admired if it wasn't for the fact that the digimon was also somehow very stupid. Hopefully, this one would be an exception. Thus, Devimon welcomed Devidramon into his team.

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"The Digimon Analyzer upgrade is almost completed, Gennai."

"Good. This will prove valuable for the Digidestined as they will be able to assess their enemies' power level before battling them. They will be able to plan the strategy to defeat the enemy easily and quickly."

The conversation was between Gennai and Piximon inside Asuka Laboratory. They were working on to upgrade the Digimon Analyzer and incorporate the digimon database into the new Diginizers. They felt that with this knowledge, the Digidestined can plan on winning the battle much more easily than before, where they would blindly attack an enemy using large amount of power unnecessarily.

"Besides, this upgrade will also eliminate those long and boring explanations about a particular digimon. Instead, all the necessary details of a digimon will be presented in point form, with extra information being told after the details," Piximon noted happily. He waved his magical staff into the air. "There! Computer, analyze Piximon now."

The main computer inside the lab made a soft humming sound, and then a digitized voice of Gennai echoed all over the lab.

----------------- DIGIMON ANALYZER ------------------
Name : Piximon
Attribute : Data
Level : Ultimate

Attacks : Pit Bomb, Magical Staff
Power Level : 56

Extra Info : Piximon is the well-known digimon trainer of the Digital World.

"There, short and sweet," Piximon noted with satisfaction.

"What's all this announcement of you, Piximon?" a gruff yet friendly voice called out above them. It came from the training gym on the first floor which was also the top floor. Leomon came out from the gym, his hand was holding a small white towel which the lion digimon used to wipe off the sweat trickling on his face and body. Obviously, he had been training in the gym.

Piximon grinned. "Computer, analyze Leomon."

----------------- DIGIMON ANALYZER ------------------
Name : Leomon
Attribute : Vaccine
Level : Champion

Attacks : Fist of the Beast King, Beast King Sword
Power Level : 47

Extra Info : This beast warrior is the protector of the weak.

"I'm flattered," Leomon replied with a grin as he walked down the metallic staircases.

"Begin transferring data to the Diginizers now. Activation code DIGI909," Gennai commanded.

"Acknowledged. Transferring data now."

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Devimon's return remained unnoticed for almost one week after his arrival. This gave him enough time to replenish his powers, which was drained when he digivolved the digi-eggs Chaos Specter had given him. The stealth cloak he had magically conjured up hid all of them from being detected by anyone or anything. Somehow, no digimons strayed as far as the fortress was, as Devimon's legend was still quite popular amongst the digimons of the island, and no one had the nerve to venture there. The Bakemons of the island had a part of igniting this fear, they constantly spread the news that the devil was back, and caused unnecessary fears among the less-experienced digimons. However, some of the digimons who lived through the time of Devimon's reign, such as Meramon, Frigimon and Unimon helped out to ease the rumors by warning the Bakemons not to spread gossip again.

Little that they knew that all these times, the Bakemons were speaking the truth. Well, almost, as the Bakemons themselves had no idea of Devimon's return.

"The time has begun," Devimon started and looked directly at his six minions. All six of them - Flame Wizardmon, Ice Devimon, Musyamon, Ninjamon, Yashamon and Devidramon were listening and looking at him attentively. "Spread out all over the File Island and declare my return. Kill any digimon in sight."

"Yes, master Devimon..." all of them chorused in obedience and moved out from the fortress. Devimon nodded in approval and retreat to his dark chamber to observe his minions, using the viewing orb.

Ice Devimon, the leader of Devimon's henchmen, had the uncanny ability of detecting the position of any digimon within a close proximity towards him. Instantly, he managed to get all the locations of the digimons of the island, and spread his forces.

"Devidramon will attack the Primary Village below. I detect seven Rookie digimons and around thirty-five In-Training and Baby digimons which won't be a threat to him. He can do this on his own," Ice Devimon laid out his plan. Devidramon grunted slightly in agreement and flew down the Infinity Mountain. "Next up is a Champion digimon inside those woods. The readings show that the digimon was a Virus type, and currently is alone. Power level is... 48." Ice Devimon pointed towards the thick forests located south from the Infinity Mountain.

"I'll do it," Flame Wizardmon smirked and flew off from the group.

Ice Devimon's eyes turned a deeper shade of red, and he turned facing a small clearing inside the eastern part of the woods. "I sense a group of Bakemons over there. Perhaps one of us should go to them, I believe they are the ones who are spreading the rumor of our master's return for the last few years. Master Devimon said that he did not appreciate their effort as it put his safety over the last one week in great jeopardy. Thus, he wants them destroyed. Who's up for this task?"

"Allow me," Yashamon brandished his wooden swords for a while before running down the mountain with great speed towards the told area. He couldn't fly there like Devidramon and Flame Wizardmon had done earlier, but his amazing speed easily made up for the inability.

"Okay, next stop is the Mihirashi Mountain," Ice Devimon said and faced west, where a tall inactive volcano stood. "I received a reading from the mountain. One Champion digimon's there... should be a Meramon, Vaccine type and power level 43. And there's a Yokomon village down there. I think Musyamon is up for this job."

Musyamon nodded and left without a word, leaving only Ninjamon and the ice devil.

"Now, what should we do with you?" Ice Devimon questioned as he looked down to the petite Ninjamon.

"I don't know. Will you hurry up already and give me a task to be done?"

Ice Devimon scanned the area on the island where a thick forest was situated. "Ah... another unexpecting Champion digimon waiting for lunch to be served. Let's see... Vaccine, 42. Ninjamon, would you be so kind to assist him?"

"I guess, although I have to say that I hated the way you said that. Bye!" Ninjamon immediately vanished, ninja-style, before Ice Devimon could claw him to pieces. Ice Devimon didn't even bother though, rather he began to set his sight on the snowy region of the File Island. "Champion, vaccine, 43 straight ahead. Well, I guess it's only me then." Ice Devimon spread his glistening crystal-like white wings and set off towards the northern part of the island where there was snow.

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A fearsome green ogre digimon was walking alone inside a thick forest, completely ignorant of a threat that was coming his way. He was enjoying the quietness of the forest as he sat down beneath a large tree. The sunlight was mostly blocked by the canopies formed by the trees which grew close together, leaving only some small streaks of the light to pass through the leaves. The air was cool inside the forest, which was one of the main reasons that the ogre digimon liked to spend his time there, besides the quietness of the forest provided. He never liked the company of other digimons, which was why he chose to seclude himself from other digimons.

Ogremon placed down his club and grunted as he inspected a small cut on his right arm. It was the result of the battle with one wild Monochromon and a Tyrannomon. For the last four years, he had been living on the File Island all the time. He had battled numerous wild digimons that caused trouble for weaker digimons, unwittingly in the same time, keeping the peacefulness of the island. Ogremon never really wanted to do that in the first place, but with the real protector of the island long gone Ogremon felt that he owed Leomon the favor. Two years after the defeat of Apocalymon, Elecmon informed him that Leomon had already been reconfigured, and was then a small, helpless Baby digimon. Seeing that his rival was reborn, Ogremon's spirit lifted and he began to take his job of protecting the island seriously. His motive? To become stronger than Leomon as the lion had already attained his Mega form before he was killed by Metal Etemon.

However, the fact that he had never digivolved even to Ultimate really bothered him. Elecmon, the only digimon on the island whom he remained close and the only digimon who knew of his whereabouts, told him recently that Leomon too never managed to regain his Mega form as his ability to Warp-digivolve came from the constant exposure of the digivices. They were on par in terms of strength, Ogremon being better slightly as he never got reconfigured.

Using a small herb plant which Ogremon usually used to treat small cuts, he compressed it on the wounded arm and applied some saliva on it as well. It was from his experience that the herb and the enzyme from his saliva can react with each other to cure his wound. Not all digimon had this ability, and in Ogremon's case, this technique apply only to himself. It won't work on other digimon.

"Two more digimons gone down the drain," Ogremon mused to himself as he treated the cut, remembering how the Monochromon and the Tyrannomon had lost to him. A Monochromon was attacking a small village near a waterfall, which was where Gomamon, the partner of a Digidestined, stayed with a group of Bukamons. Without Joe, Gomamon couldn't digivolve and Ogremon decided to lend a helping hand. The Tyrannomon, coincidentally, was attacking Palmon and Biyomon. Although they disapproved of him killing the wild digimon, they had been grateful of him, and deep in his heart, Ogremon was glad that he had taken Leomon's job.

"And Leomon has to stay at Asuka Lab to accompany that digi-human..." Ogremon muttered. "Less practice for him, which is better for me... someday I'll surpass him." Ogremon was ignorant of the fact that he was indeed, stronger than Leomon.

Suddenly, dark fog suddenly materialized inside the forest. The mist exuded some unnatural chills, and Ogremon's battle instinct instantly alerted him that something was wrong. Immediately, he got up from where he was standing, his club grasped securely on his uninjured arm. His wild blue eyes scanned his surroundings like a hawk stalking its prey, and from the corner of his eyes he could make out three small bluish-white flames coming towards him. A shadow of a humanoid digimon began to take form from the thick fog. The digimon approaching him was shorter than him, but Ogremon could detect a strange aura from the digimon. It felt strange, evil, and yet, familiar.

"Who's there?!" Ogremon called out. "Show yourself!"

The digimon approaching him cackled in laughter as a reply. This annoyed Ogremon as he began to take a fighting stance. Whoever the digimon was, he was definitely up to no good. The laughter had implied that the digimon was a male. Not that Ogremon would go soft if the digimon was a female, he had battled some she-digimons in the past.

"My, my, Ogremon. You sure seem so full of yourself," the digimon replied. From the eerie flickers of the blue-white flames around the digimon, Ogremon could make out the digimon's features. Several distinctive features on this digimon were similar to that of a Wizardmon, but the only Wizardmon Ogremon had ever heard of was currently at the Zephyr Tower of the Blue Dragon Island, protecting the Seiryuu sector in Azulongmon's absence.

"Who in the digital world, are you?" Ogremon growled, and added, "And what do you want?"

The reply came in the form of a snicker which annoyed Ogremon. "I am Flame Wizardmon. One of Master Devimon's followers."

"Not another of that Bakemon hoax!"

"Foolish digimon, this is no hoax! I speak no lies, and I do work for Master Devimon unlike some digimon who'd betrayed him!"

Ogremon's blood turned cold when hearing what Flame Wizardmon just mentioned. "Devimon, you say?" he asked, trying to keep his cool, but unfortunately his attempt had barely worked as he could feel sweats trickling down his face, forehead, temples and body. His heart thumped quicker than normal, and Ogremon knew that somehow, Flame Wizardmon was telling the truth.

"I see that you're scared already..." Flame Wizardmon noted in satisfaction. "Good! Be afraid!" Flame Wizardmon raised his right hand which was holding a small red staff while extending his left hand, and chanted some incantations. "Magic Ignition!" Flame Wizardmon yelled, and instantly, the three magical blue-white flames shot out towards Ogremon.

Ogremon readied his bone club, and swished the flames aside. "Child's play!"

"Oh yeah? Well let's see whether you can handle this! Fire Cloud!" This time around, Flame Wizardmon used his staff to fire several rays of blue-white firebolts. With great agility Ogremon successfully evaded all of the attacks, and snickered triumphantly.

"Hah! You missed, again!" Ogremon taunted.

"Don't count on it, fool!" the wizard yelled back and narrowed his eyes. The firebolts which zapped pass Ogremon made a 180'' turn and shot towards Ogremon from behind. Unfortunately, Ogremon didn't see this coming, and was hit severely. However, with his immense strength Ogremon managed to retain his standing posture. He glared at Flame Wizardmon angrily, while the wizard laughed of his success. His bare back, which a portion of it was covered by his white hair, was scorched by the fire beams. His hair was burnt black, and there was a burning aroma exuded from Ogremon. Ogremon winced as the cut he had attained earlier, which was not fully healed, was scorched with Flame Wizardmon's attack as well. He growled fiercely, and charged towards the wizard digimon with unrivalled speed.

Flame Wizardmon could barely see Ogremon running when suddenly... "Pummel Whack!" he was pummeled hard on the head by Ogremon's bone club. The brute strength used by Ogremon was enough to send Flame Wizardmon flying, knocking him against a tree. "What do you say now?" Ogremon asked smugly, but he wasn't going to let the temporary victory went into his head. Nope, he learnt a lot of lessons never to do that. So, he advanced towards the fallen wizard, preparing to pummel him again.

Seeing danger, Flame Wizardmon quickly leapt back to his feet, his eyes flashing dangerously. "Not bad, for a stupid digimon such as the likes of you," he said coolly. "A fine addition to supply powers for Master Devimon." With that, Flame Wizardmon closed his eyes and chanted. The chants were at first slow and faint, but steadily grew faster and louder causing Ogremon to stop advancing towards him. Finally, the chants echoed all around Ogremon causing his vision to blur slightly. Ogremon began to see multiple images of Flame Wizardmon, and knowing that it was a trick played by the wizard Ogremon shook his head several times. However, as he did this his condition only became worse as he began to feel sleepy. His eyes became heavy, and no matter how Ogremon struggled to keep himself awake, his eyes didn't seem to want to obey him. Before he completely blacked out, Ogremon could make out something round and black began to form on Flame Wizardmon's hands. Something which looked like a gear.

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"Well done, minions. You've served me well." Devimon remarked after seeing his six followers brought him a few digimons. Flame Wizardmon brought Ogremon, who was one of his meanest servants back during his era on the File Island. Ogremon was mean by nature, and the fact that he was infected with a Black Gear only did well to elevate his wild behavior. Ice Devimon had captured Frigimon initially, but he related that during their battle, a Mojyamon came to help out as well, and Ice Devimon decided to capture both of them. Musyamon was followed by the Meramon who guarded Mihirashi Mountain, Devidramon had brought Elecmon. Yashamon, while originally assigned to destroy the Bakemons, had obviously decided to bring a few Bakemons along with Unimon.

Devimon drew his hands forward, his claws open wide. He began to chant in a strange language. His voice, slightly raspy but retained its dark tone, caused echo all over the dark fortress. A gust of wind blew from his claws as he began his ritual of absorbing the captured digimons' powers. Devimon needed the powers to make him stronger, as well as gaining the ability to learn of any trademark attack the victim digimon possessed. This also increased his power level and experience, and made him an even more powerful opponent than any average Ultimate digimon could dream of accomplishing.

Prior to his return, Devimon had earlier created a number of similar Black Gears such like the ones he'd been using to control strong digimons of the island. Channeling the victim digimon's power into the Black Gear, Devimon felt his own power increased while the victim digimons became weaker. They would need some time to regain their powers back.

Devimon noticed that his most powerful ex-servant didn't appear amongst the small number of victims brought by his minions. "Where is Leomon?"

"He's not on this island, master," Flame Wizardmon answered. "We have no news of where he is now."

Devimon frowned slightly. "That's too bad, he was the most powerful of them all. I thought he would be here after being reconfigured."

"Maybe one of them knows about him?" Ice Devimon suggested.

"Never mind him, the digimons you've brought to me are good enough. Using their powers, I can easily crush that blonde and his guardian angel for good. All of you..." Devimon eyed his six minions one by one, his eyes glowing crimson. His mere stare caused the six of them to cower slightly. However, Devimon's mouth broke into a slight smile as he continued, "... shall be rewarded for a job well done. But first, I'll make my presence known to those kids so that they'll come over here."

"What do you want us to do, master?" Flame Wizardmon inquired.

"For now, nothing. You all may rest before you have your rewards later. When the Digidestined arrive on the island, all of you are in charge for the welcoming committee. Make their presence... well, worthwhile, but leave T.K. and Patamon to me. As for the others, you may do as you see fit because I've decided NOT to let that so-called digital world conqueror to have any fun. But be careful of the girl with a Gatomon, they can fuse together to a powerful Angewomon. Separate them from their DNA-digivolve partners." Devimon conjured up the images of the Digidestined and their digimons on his orb, which was magically enlarged so that all of them could see clearly. Devimon then explained about the DNA-digivolution, and the new Trans-digivolution.

"That Imperialdramon seems to be exceptionally powerful," Ice Devimon noted after seeing how Paildramon Mega-digivolved into Imperialdramon.

"As long as you separate the boy with the goggles and the former Digimon Emperor," Devimon showed the faces of Davis and Ken. " You don't have anything to worry about. The same goes for the blonde and his young friend..." the images of T.K. and Cody were shown next. "... and the two girls. But like I said before, be wary of the brunette."

"As you wish, master." All of them chorused together before retreating themselves into their private chambers.

Devimon walked out from his fortress and watched the surroundings of the File Island. He raised both hands towards the clear sky and summoned his powers. The sky began to take an eerie shade of grey as thick clouds began to form themselves. The clouds were purple, and bolts of electricity shot out from the skies. Thunders rumbled all over the island as the clouds hovered all over, blocking all forms of lights from entering, leaving the island in complete darkness.

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Everything around him was darkness as T.K. walked blindly, not being able to see anything else. He was alone, and wondered how on Earth he managed to be there at the first place. The last thing he remembered was being in his bedroom, getting to sleep. He remembered seeing the sun beginning to set on the horizons as he retired to bed, casting its final sunlight towards the sky before the moon took over. The sky had been red, pink and with some blackish shadows, as T.K. could see so well from his open bedroom window. His partner Patamon had jumped onto the bed and snuggled on the large fluffy pillow which both of them shared together. T.K. could recall lying on the bed when suddenly everything around him getting darker, suffocating all the remaining lights inside his dark bedroom. His surroundings became black and deathly silent.

"Where am I?" T.K. thought out loud, half-wondering and half-scared at the same time. Okay, forget about the scared part. T.K. was not scared of the dark, he'd been able to sleep alone in the dark by himself ever since he was five. Since his mother took him away from his father and Matt. T.K. shuddered at the thought. Now was not the time to think about that, T.K. reprimanded himself. He looked around him and it seemed to make no difference as everywhere around him, in every possible direction, was nothing but blackness.

And then there was the silence. T.K. hated the unnerving quietness around him. It caused him to hear some annoying ringing sound in his ear. Right then and there, T.K. wished he could at least hear Patamon's rhythmic snores to be assured that he was not alone. Fat chance. He was on his own.

Suddenly, a glint of something white, small and sparkling from afar caught T.K.'s eyes. Relieved, he walked towards the source of the white light, which then became two twinkling white lights as he grew nearer. However, he began to slow down as he approached the two small lights. They looked like they belonged to a pair of eyes. Adjusting to the shining lights, T.K. could make out a tall, lean figure walking towards him. Something large was hanging on his back, and T.K. squint his eyes in order to see clearer. 'Wings...' he thought. 'Big, tattered wings.'

The figure was standing silently a few feet from T.K. Right then, most of its features became visible, and T.K. noted the shadows of its hands, which he saw was unnaturally longer than any man. 'The palms seem abnormally big...' T.K. continued to assess the figure before he realized something. 'Those aren't palms... they.. they're claws!" A horrible realization hit him suddenly, and T.K. cocked his head up to get a closer look at its face. To his horror he could make out the shadows of a familiar face, its head had horns protruding from each of its side of the head.

"You!" T.K. finally realized who he was facing. However, how could it be? He was destroyed long time ago... how could he be here? No way! He refused to believe it, but in the same he was shaking with fear. He felt the fine hairs on his hands and back of the neck stood up as sweat trickled down his back, forehead, neck and body. Both his knees were shaking. In the darkness, he suddenly felt something clutched his chest, clawing its sharp nails deep inside his flesh. Unable to bear the pain, T.K. let out a piercing scream.

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

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From the top of Zephyr Tower of the Blue Dragon Island, Wizardmon noticed the strange phenomenon occurring on the File Island. He sensed an evil presence on the island, a digimon with unholy powers who was trying to envelope the island into darkness.

"What could it be?" Wizardmon wondered to himself. "I don't think Chaos Specter is able to do such a thing to the File Island. No, this must be the work of a digimon." He shuddered slightly as he remembered the times when he worked under Myotismon. "Myotismon? But he was destroyed by the Digidestined six months ago... there's no way he could return." Wizardmon remembered how Myotismon covered the town of Odaiba with strange fogs. The phenomenon he was seeing happening on the File Island however, was worse.

"A digimon even more powerful than Myotismon?" he asked himself out loud. "I have to alert Gennai and the Digidestined at once."

to be continued...