VENGEANCE

Chapter 17 - Chaos Wargreymon's Past Unveiled

The Protocol Jungle were once a grand city in the past. However it was said that one day, a great battle occured there and as the result the formerly big city of Protocol Kingdom collapsed. The buildings fell into disrepair, some were destroyed, and what remained were left as they were. Mysterious fogs covered the whole kingdom, depriving the digimons there of the warm sunrays. Most digimons who resided there at the time chose to move away to a much better place, and it didn't take long for the formerly glorious kingdom to begin decaying. Moss and vines crept up the dirt and soil-infested walls of the remaining buildings, and wild trees grew around the ruins. Not very far from the ruins was the beach, once an attraction to the kingdom. Now, there was nothing left to attract and the beach suffered the same fate as the rest of the kingdom.

One building however remained intact after centuries. Formerly the temple of the city, now it was known as the Protocol Ruins. A black tower stood in the middle of the clearing leading to the old temple. To reach the temple's entrance, one must climb the one-hundred stairsteps first. Inside the temple was a very large foyer, lit only by the torches hung on the walls. Old red carpets were placed on the floor. More steps could be seen at the end of the foyer, leading to an old throne where the master of the Protocol Ruins, Pharaohmon, usually sat.

Pharaohmon truly was a mysterious digimon. A Mega level Virus digimon, he wasn't that well-known compared to his Ultimate level counterpart, Mummymon. Pharaohmon's features were mostly made out of gold, his face bore resemblance to the coffins encasing the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. He wore white cape, loincloth and had a white staff with a number-eight-shaped proximal ending. He looked forbiding, but no one truly knew his true nature.

The pharaoh digimon didn't like intruders entering his temple, but upon hearing the news of a human and a BlackGatomon tresspassing the area from the three Tsukaimons defeated by the BlackGatomon, Pharaohmon knew that it was only a matter of time before they would reach the temple. True enough, within only a few minutes after the Tsukaimons came, Chaos Specter and Catrina entered the temple.

Angered, Pharaohmon rose from his throne. "To what do I owe this pleasure?" he barked, trying to keep his tone calm. Pharaohmon had a deep voice with an eerie quality evident in the tone, and his voice echoed all over the temple.

"This place is perfect, isn't it Catrina? It's large enough to hold the incubation tube," Chaos Specter said, ignoring Pharaohmon's inquiry.

Catrina shook her head in distaste. "This place is dark and moist, I'd rather go back to the Velvet Claw."

Pharaohmon studied his visitors carefully, deciding not to interfere while the two were talking. He was trying to assess Catrina's prowess.

Chaos Specter turned to look at Pharaohmon. "Ah yes, Pharaohmon. The master of the Protocol Ruins. I have to say that I am very glad to finally meet you. I am Chaos Specter, an interdimensional Digital World conqueror..."

"I've heard about you already," Pharaohmon cut in impatiently. "What is your purpose here, that's what I want to know."

"Ah, so there's no need for introduction. So let's just make this simple. I am very keen in using this place for my experiment, and I was wondering what would the master of the Protocol Ruins would want to say about this?"

"You can forget it, human. I don't make deals with the likes of you. Now if you please, leave this temple."

Chaos Specter clicked his tongue, obviously already anticipating the answer.

"I was hoping to make it simple, but since you are obviously not co-operating I have to take over this shrine by force!" He then looked at Catrina with a smile. "Catrina, would you do the honor?"

Nodding vigorously, the BlackGatomon prepared herself into a battle stance.

"With pleasure. BlackGatomon Digivolve to... Bastemon!!"

Pharaohmon watched the whole ordeal carefully. "If you want to seize the sacred temple then you'll have to go through me first."

"I was hoping you would say that," Catrina said curtly. She walked briskly towards the stairsteps of the throne, but Pharaohmon immediately stopped her with his booming voice.

"Don't bother, I'll come down there. After all, you are guests." Nobody could miss the sarcastic tone of Pharaohmon, but Catrina ignored it.

Not wanting to waste any time, she immediately jumped towards the Mega with her claws forward. The blood red painted claws glinted maliciously as Catrina grew closer to the pharaoh. Anticipating Pharaohmon to attack back or evade, Catrina raised her guards and made a mental note for another route of attack should her first was not successful. Directing her energy towards her claws, Catrina summoned her trademark attack's name loudly.

"Helter Skelter!!"

Just as Catrina had anticipated, Pharaohmon simply moved out of the way as he didn't want to waste his energy. Using his staff, he tried to knock Catrina's head as it would immediately end the battle or at least stopped it for a while, but with great agility Catrina ignored the staff and zoomed towards Pharaohmon again. Uttering a loud meowing scream, she lashed her claws onto Pharaohmon's body. However, the pharaoh's body was covered by armor and he was protected against attacks such as demonstrated by Catrina. Seeing that her attacks didn't work as she plannned, Catrina jumped in the air and aimed to kick Pharaohmon's head.

"Now that's about enough, little girl. I'm growing weary of this," Pharaohmon said calmly and blocked Catrina's kick with his hand. He then attempted to grab Catrina's leg but she was faster and pulled back instantly. Pharaohmon instantly knew that Catrina lacked experience, and realized that he would win this match easily. But still, it had been long since he had a good fight and Pharaohmon wanted to see how strong the Bastemon he was facing really was. Despite her being the enemy, Pharaohmon and Bastemon were both Egyptian-based digimons and the Mega wanted to use this chance to learn about her more.

He decided to spite her to make her angry. "For shame Bastemon, for carrying the Egyptian goddess's name but can't defeat a pharaoh like me."

Catrina glared at Pharaohmon angrily. "Oh, you asked for it! Vampire Dance!!" She jumped again towards Pharaohmon and made a graceful yet quick spinning movements, with kicks and claws all directed towards Pharaohmon. Waves of orange bats erupted from her hands, but Pharaohmon swatted them away with his staff. She was spinning so fast Pharaohmon had quite a hard time deciphering her movements, and before he could evade Catrina landed a well-aimed kick towards his stomach, and slashed her claws at his chest. Clearly she had exerted more power on her attacks as scratch marks could now be seen on his armor. Pharaohmon regretted that his armor wasn't made of Chrome Digizoid, but it was strong enough to sustain attacks from even Mega digimons.

"Necro Mist!!" Pharaohmon immediately sprayed a jet of mist from his staff towards Catrina. Coughing violently due to inhaling the mists, Catrina suddenly realized that her powers were decreasing at an alarming rate. Her vision too was obscured by the mists, and she couldn't see Pharaohmon suddenly loomed towards her. All was too late when she was knocked on her head by Pharaohmon's staff, causing her to fall onto the floor.

Catrina rolled over the ground and got up instantly. Pharaohmon was impressed, he had underestimated her before.

"You use underhand means! Two can play the same game!!" she shouted angrily, and her eyes glowed red. Spreading her hands wide, red smokes began to emit from her body and her figure began to illuminate with orange lights. Catrina hunched slightly and her hands instantly changed shape to become those of a cat's front paws. Her body and face underwent the same transformation, all her clothes disappeared and her beautiful facial features changed to a fierce cat-like one. Her long red hair disappeared as well. Catrina had transformed into a panther-like digimon with faint spots on her brownish-black fur. Her paws bore sharp crimson claws which looked even more fearsome than when they did when she was in her human form.

"In this form, I'm faster than before!" she cried, and Pharaohmon noted a change in her voice as well. Gone was the sultry cat-like voice, the cat creature in front of him was growling fiercely as she spoke. Pharaohmon instantly knew that he had to tread his way more carefully, clearly the Bastemon's new mode allowed her to move even faster.

Chaos Specter watched with pride as his pet successfull transformed into her cat mode. Knowing that a Bastemon's secret ability was to change her appearance from humanoid to cat-like at will, he knew that the battle between Catrina and Pharaohmon had just begun.

----------DIGIMON ANALYZER-----------
Bastemon, Ultimate level digimon of Virus type. In her cat form Bastemon retained her two attacks, but her powers increased considerably as well as her speed. In this form she is more agile, but is more vulnerable on the head as it would cause her to change back to her human form when it is hit with force.

----------DIGIMON ANALYZER-----------
Pharaohmon, Mega level digimon of Virus type. His attacks are Necro Mist and Tut Ankh Rail.

Pharaohmon was having a hard time evading Catrina's attacks this time around, as the speed Catrina had gained from her transformation had proved to be useful. She would switch back and forth between attacking at close and far ranges. With her speed Pharaohmon felt as if he was fighting two digimons at one time. Catrina had successfully clawed him on various places, his cape was shredded as well in the process. Growing tired slightly, Pharaohmon lauched his Necro Mist attack again to weaken Catrina's power again. However, the transformation seemed to have increased Catrina's resistance to the mists as well, as she didn't seem to be relenting. Instead, she just roared and fired waves of bats towards him in retaliance.

Catrina landed on the floor a few metres far away from Pharaohmon. Her opponent was very strong, but she was surprised at her own prowess. She didn't expect herself to be this effective, already she had tire out a Mega digimon. Although lacking experience, her powers were still quite high. Determined to please Chaos Specter even further, Catrina collected her energy and prepared to attack again. However Pharaohmon was prepared to take on Catrina again.

"Tut Ankh..." he said slowly, and the eight-shaped end of his staff glowed with dark purple aura. Pharaohmon then spun his staff, at first it was done slowly but was picking speed. Spinning the staff even farther, Pharaohmon began to chant in a language that Catrina couldn't understand. His chants were slow, but became gradually faster as his staff spun quicker. Black smokes began to form around the spinning staff and eerie wailing sounds were heard out of nowhere. A ghostly face of a pharaoh materialized from the black smokes and Pharaohmon then stopped spinning his staff, pointing it towards Catrina and bellowed mightily, "...Rail!!!"

Waves of black smokes with the pharaoh's face instantly jet towards Catrina, and before she could evade the ghostly pharaoh's face had soared through her body while wailing loudly and hauntingly. To her horror, she felt her body became numb all of a sudden. Realizing that she was completely paralyzed, Catrina felt suddenly helpless. Pharaohmon took the opportunity to attack her again with his Necro Mist, but Chaos Specter quickly intervened using a golden staff with the head of a cobra crafted on its proximal end. The cobra staff quickly absorbed all the Necro Mist before the mists came into contact with Chaos Specter.

Chaos Specter stood protectively in front of the fallen Catrina, who had reverted back to her human form and was unconscious. Glowering angrily towards Pharaohmon, his eyes glowed red the same way Catrina's eyes did when she transformed into her cat form.

"That's far enough, Pharaohmon," Chaos Specter threathened. "Now you'll face me."

"You must be out of your mind, human!" Pharaohmon spat unbelievingly. "It's lucky that you've decided to protect your fallen partner before I finish her off." He eyed Chaos Specter's cobra staff carefully. "But how can a human stand a chance against a Mega digimon like me?"

"Do not underestimate me, you haven't seen anything yet," Chaos Specter said, his tone became more dangerous. He raised his staff towards the sky and screamed out loudly. The cobra staff glowed with black aura and two spirits, one of a silent black demonic warrior and the other of a screeching crimson-colored skeletal bird with feathery wings. The two spirits coalesced on the air momentarily before entering Chaos Specter's body. His roar became louder as his body took on the form of the black demon warrior, his shoulder length straight jet-black hair grew longer and turned into glowing yellow and his face were covered with a black helmet depicting the face of a demon with three crimson eyes. The helmet only revealed his eyes, which were still glowing red. His armor was mostly black, with several larger-than-life sized eyes on both shoulders and the center of his chest. Two jagged red blades came out from his hands, which took on the forms of the skulls of demonic animals.

Then, the screeching buzzard spirit loomed towards the armored Chaos Specter and entered his body. Instantly, great red and black wings sprouted on his back. His helmet changed slightly, with the beak of the bird creature combined on top of the three horned helmet, covering the third middle eye. His body armor took on a more drastic change as the eyes were now covered with bone-like armor that came from the bird spirit. Long skeletal crimson tail erupted from his behind, slithering its way onto the ground. His leg armors looked like a blend between the demon warrior's armor and the bird's skeletal structures. His feet had the same features, with what looked like armored boots combined with the claws of the buzzard. Finally, the newly-formed creature grew twice Pharaohmon's size.

"Prepare for your demise now Pharaohmon, for I'm no mere human!" Chaos Specter exclaimed, and Pharaohmon could only close his eyes as flashes of blinding red lights covered his version, along with Chaos Specter's loud laughter. Pharaohmon felt an intense heat all over his body before his vision became nothing but black, and he felt nothing else as his body slumped onto the floor helplessly.


Chaos Wargreymon's journey from the North Sector to the East took nearly one week, with stops rests during the nights. He could fly faster, but his energy was still pretty much gone due to his battles with the digimons of Kulon Mines. As he flew he recalled back the events that took place there after he'd retrieved the Xeed Crystal, which he was assigned to retrieve.

Flashback

Before stepping up onto the podium deep inside the heart of the Kulon Mines, Chaos Wargreymon had lost a large amount of energy and no longer was able to sustain his Mega level. He had dedigivolved back to his Rookie form of Chaos Agumon before climbing up the stairs of the podium with great difficulty. From what he'd remembered the purple crystal was hovering on its own on the podium. Just as he was about to retrieve the crystal, a ghostly image of two serpents entwined into each other materialized from within the crystal. Dark red lights beam were shot from the Xeed Crystal towards him before he was knocked out unconscious.

When he woke up, no longer was he at the podium. He was on a chill ice bed, which was glowing green. To his surprise, Kuzuhamon was sitting on an icy chair beside him, looking at him intently.

"How did I get here?" Chaos Agumon asked groggily, trying to adjust his vision to the sudden intrusion of blue-white lights reflected from the frozen lake.

Kuzuhamon's look was sorrowful. "When you didn't come back after three days, I know something was amiss. Thus, for the first time ever I disobeyed Lord Ebonwumon's command of never leaving my post here, and went to look for you. I saw that you had killed all of the digimons guarding the Fire and Dark regions of this Mines."

Chaos Agumon was about to reply when Kuzuhamon suddenly hissed, cutting him off instantly.

"How could you?!"

Chaos Agumon decided not to answer lest his reply would upset Kuzuhamon even further. Instead, he jumped off the ice bed and scanned his surroundings. Noticing that the Xeed Crystal wasn't with him, Chaos Agumon began to feel slightly frantic and his eyes darted all over his surroundings, including Kuzuhamon.

"What are you looking for?" Kuzuhamon asked, more puzzled than annoyed when Chaos Agumon stared at her.

"A crystal. The Xeed Crystal."

"Oh, that's the thing that caused you to kill all the innocent digimons of this Mines."

Chaos Agumon rolled his eyes impatiently. "I don't have time for this, Kuzuhamon. Do you, or do you not, have the crystal?"

"What if I have it?" Kuzuhamon asked, her tone slightly shrill. "And what if I won't give it to you? This crystal must be very valuable because Lord Ebonwumon told us to guard it with our lives. Not to forget that you've killed...."

"Will you stop mentioning about that?!" Chaos Agumon shouted angrily. "It's not like I enjoyed it back then!"

"I doubt that. How can you not enjoy killing them? You're ruthless, and you know that!"

Chaos Agumon's temper flared up, and he suddenly Warp-digivolved back to his Mega form of Chaos Wargreymon.

"Ruthless? Woman, I can easily destroy you now if you don't hand me the crystal. Then you will know how ruthless I really am!"

Kuzuhamon was undaunted. "Well go ahead! I won't give it to you that easily, and you know that!"

"Don't push me too far, Kuzuhamon," Chaos Wargreymon warned, his tone however was weary.

"Well I DON'T have your crystal, Chaos Wargreymon! I suppose you should know better than that!" Kuzuhamon said, and placed a finger onto Chaos Wargreymon's golden chest-plate. Chaos Wargreymon looked down, and was amazed to see that the Xeed Crystal was embedded on his armor.

"How did it happen? How did it get there?"

"How should I know?"

Chaos Wargreymon walked away from Kuzuhamon, never feeling more irritated than he ever was in his whole life. Even Chaos Piedmon and Chaos Seadramon combined never irk him as much as Kuzuhamon had done. He wondered why he hesitated to finish off her the same way he did to the other digimons. His thoughts then came back to the event when he had spared the life of Kari Kamiya, one of the Digidestined. That alone had baffled him to no end.

"Where are you going?" Kuzuhamon demanded.

Chaos Wargreymon sighed impatiently. "I'm going back to give this crystal to my master."

Kuzuhamon began to take a few steps forward, but Chaos Wargreymon was quicker. He formed a miniscule form of the Terra Force and aimed it towards the Ice Lake where Kuzuhamon was about to step on. The fireball caused the frozen ice surface to explode, and Chaos Wargreymon took the opportunity to fly away before Kuzuhamon was able to stop him.

End Flashback

Chaos Wargreymon felt amused all of a sudden. Why did he do such a thing when all his life he'd never hesitated to kill any digimon. He couldn't bear the thoughts of killing the elegant lady fox digimon, and by thinking of this during his whole journey he didn't realize that he had arrived at the northern quadrant of the East Sector. Feeling slightly tired, he decided to take a break and landed quietly inside the thick forests there. He sat near a very large tree, and leaned his body against the tree deciding to take a short sleep to replenish his energy.

However his sleep was cut short when he heard urgent cries for help coming from somewhere deep inside the forest, and the cries were approaching him. Standing up immediately, Chaos Wargreymon was unsure of what to do. He then decided to sit on the tree branches and see what was going on from atop.

Not much longer later, he saw two figures of digimons whom he knew as the Tapirmons were running, or floating, at top speed. One of them were crying for help, from its voice Chaos Wargreymon could easily deduce that it was a male Tapirmon. The other one was definitely female, Chaos Wargreymon got the idea by watching what the female Tapirmon was holding so close to her. It was a digi-egg.

"Help! Help!" they cried helplessly, while running they kept on looking behind them. Chaos Wargreymon could tell that they were being chased.

Suddenly a thin lithe orange hyena leapt up towards the two Tapirmons. Chaos Wargreymon recognized it as a Fangmon, a menacing Champion digimon known for its notoriousity. That Fangmon was gaining on the scurrying Rookies, and soon it leapt again and landed in front of the Tapirmons.

"Going somewhere, little tapirs?" Fangmon said, baring his fangs.

The Tapirmons backed away slowly. "Please don't hurt us!" the male Tapirmon begged.

"Please, let us go," the female Tapirmon continued. Hearing her voice confirmed Chaos Wargreymon's earlier deduction.

"You two should be at the Marina Bay Village instead of here, right? Master Chaos Seadramon won't be happy to see that the village have lost two of its occupants." Fangmon leered closer towards the Tapirmons until the two Rookies could feel his warm, foul-smelling breath. "But then again, the two of you are so small, so little, maybe he won't notice that you two are gone! Ha ha ha ha!"

"Please..." the male Tapirmon begged for mercy.

"Oh what's this? A digi-egg?" Fangmon's attention quickly averted towards the digi-egg the female Tapirmon was holding. "An appetizer for me before I devour your data! What a lucky day this going to be!"

"You... you wouldn't! It is forbidden! The digi-gods have banned any digimon...." the male Tapirmon protested when Fangmon quickly cut him off.

"Ahh.. but they are currently being locked up at who-knows-where, thanks to that Chaos Specter guy. I've always hated the rule set by the oh-so-good Azulongmon! Now that he's out of the way..." Drools started to pour from Fangmon's mouth as he sniffed the digi-egg, which the female Tapirmon was trying to move away in vain.

Something in Chaos Wargreymon snapped. Seeing the Fangmon bullying the Tapirmons with a digi-egg had angered him, but when the hyena threathened to consume the Tapirmons and the digi-eggs data as well was the last straw. He himself never did such a thing as absorbing other digimons' data even though when he had killed them. By doing that he would deny the chance of allowing the fallen digimons to be reconfigured back into their digi-egg forms. And something about harming a defenseless digi-egg had caused him to be infuriated. Chaos Wargreymon immediately leapt down from the branch he was sitting and zoomed towards the Fangmon.

"What the..." Fangmon could barely finish his sentence when Chaos Wargreymon's claw picked him up from the grounds. Struggling, he was shocked that it was a Wargreymon who was attacking him. Silently cursing his fate, he knew that he wasn't going to escape. He was as good as gone, especially when Chaos Wargreymon used his another claw to form a small Terra Force and blasted him into oblivion before Fangmon could even protest.

The two Tapirmons watched in awe as their savior landed in front of them.

"Thank you, oh hic thank you, Wargreymon, hic, for saving us!" the female Tapirmon said gratefully between restrained sobs.

"Thank you, oh how can we ever repay you?" the male Tapirmon asked, looking at Chaos Wargreymon's troubled expression.

"Can I... take a look at the digi-egg?" Chaos Wargreymon asked hesitantly.

The female and male Tapirmons looked at each other uncertainly.

"No.. never mind.." Chaos Wargreymon started saying before he was cut off by the female Tapirmon.

"It's okay, here, hold it," she said while placing the digi-egg on Chaos Wargreymon's palm.

"I won't drop it," Chaos Wargreymon assured, and looked closely at the white digi-egg with yellow stripes decorating the egg. Something was stirring in his mind, something very familiar. Something really, really, really familiar, and it was about to come back to his memory.

Suddenly the digi-egg glowed with white light, and a small black-colored Botamon hatched out from the egg. The Botamon looked at Chaos Wargreymon hesitantly before blowing him with harmless bubbles. The dino-man digimon was barely surprised and gave the Botamon to its parents, the two Tapirmons who were beaming with pride.

"Oh, we're really sorry, sir, he's just a baby," the male Tapirmon apologized.

"No, no...it's allright, I..." All of a sudden, waves of memories hit Chaos Wargreymon one after another. A colorful place, a young red-eyed young girl, a curious red rodent with purple stripes, all of his past memories were coming back to him.

"Anything wrong?" the female Tapirmon asked, holding the baby Botamon close to her.

"Bota Bota?" the Botamon said, curious of what was going on around him.

Chaos Wargreymon snapped out from his mild trance, and looked at the three digimons in front of him. "I.. I finally remembered!"


Back on Earth, the younger generations of Digidestined gathered at the park to discuss about what had happened the previous day. Davis and T.K. took turn to explain their encounters and battles the day before, while Ken, Yolei and Cody, and the digimons listened intently. Kari was still not back from her holiday at Hokkaido, and T.K. promised to e-mail her later about the full story.

"Looks like the battle between us and the Chaos Forces are getting more intense," Cody observed after hearing the story.

"Has it ever occured to any of you guys that we've not even seen this Chaos Specter," Yolei asked them. "I wonder whether he's cute or not."

Ken scowled slightly, but tried to hide it. "Yeah, that's really weird."

"I don't think I want to meet him, though. He sounds like a really nasty guy," Yolei said as an afterthought. Obviously she saw Ken's reaction and decided to add something more to assure Ken of whatever he was feeling.

"That MetalTyrannomon is going to come back to that town," Davis said suddenly. "He'd vowed to return. And did you guys know what he did? He seemed like he was absorbing the data particles from the other bad digimons when they were defeated."

"That is called the data absorption method," Ken said darkly. "It is said to be a digimon's short-cut of a way in getting stronger and reached their higher digivolutionary stage faster. However by doing that the digimon is denying its fallen opponent the chance for it to reconfigure itself."

"Now that you've mentioned it, that MetalTyrannomon did seem to look a lot stronger after taking the data particles," T.K. told them. "But why didn't he just attack there and then, if he's getting stronger?"

"It's because that MetalTyrannomon would need some time to adjust himself with all the new data he'd taken. Not to mention from five digimons, it could take him a while," Ken answered.

Davis was awed. "How do you know all this, Ken?"

"Oh Davis, you're so dense!" Yolei chided. "Ken was the... oh, urm.."

"The Digimon Emperor," Ken finished up the sentence, smiling a little. "It's okay."

T.K. decided to change the topic, and told them another of their recent discovery. "Do you know that Gennai has modified our Digimon Analyzers again, and it's way cool! Even in my Transdigivolved form as MagnaAngemon I can call on the analyzer to assess my opponent."

"I can't wait to see that!" Cody said, slightly excited.

"Now Cody, you really sounds like Izzy," T.K. said good-naturedly.

"Well, he isn't given the Diginizer of Knowledge for nothing," Davis added. Cody blushed a little, but didn't reply to any of their comment.

"Do you guys know that our situation has actually become more precarious? Without Imperialdramon, we won't stand a chance should Chaos Specter decided to send over Mega digimons, such as those Chaos Generals to fight us. I know both Angewomon and MagnaAngemon are powerful, but even they can't fight off any one of Chaos General on their own," Ken suddenly said.

"Didn't MagnaAngemon defeat Piedmon single-handedly during your first adventures?" Yolei asked T.K.

Patamon decided to answer that. "I was able to give him a good fight, but it was actually WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon who had blasted him inside my Gate of Destiny."

"Then the rest of us really need to Transdigivolve soon," Cody concluded.

The Digidestined continued talking about other things, but at the same time in the Digital World the Velvet Claw was hovering beneath the dark clouds covering the Protocol Jungle. Chaos Specter's plan to take over the Protocol Jungle was successful. Several enslaved strong digimons such as Gorillamons and Apemons were seen carrying the incubation tube containing DemiDevimon inside the temple. A laboratory was set up quickly inside the temple, and a Datamon was put in charge of the experiment. The Datamon had a Vadermon to help him out around the laboratory. Chaos Specter then placed Gorillamon and Apemon to guard the entrance of the temple, and ordered a Megadramon and a Gigadramon to monitor the skies above the jungle and get rid of any unwanted visitors. The beach was usually deserted and the most least likely to be the place where anymon would come. Not taking any chances however, Chaos Specter placed a Shellmon and a Scorpiomon there as well. Finally, deciding that everything was in order Chaos Specter left Chaos-AI to monitor the surroundings while he retreated to his chamber for a rest as he was worn out from fighting Pharaohmon earlier that day.


Author's Note:

Hope this chapter turns out okay. I've been dying to get to the part when Chaos Specter reveals his ability, and where Chaos Wargreymon realizes his true identity. Special thanks to Psychorabbit for 'pushing' me to make Chaos Specter more threathening. Anyone has any idea of what creature did Chaos Specter turn into in this chapter? Don't forget to let me know about your thoughts in the reviews!

Lodis Lord - Hey, you've returned for another review. Thanks for liking the story, and I will try to avoid anything fillerish. Don't worry, I will finish writing this story.

Psychorabbit - Thanks again for your helpful suggestions, I really, really appreciate them and I will try to make the story progress faster. I've tried putting in two subplots in this chapter, and I'm wondering whether it turn out okay. I still need to learn a lot about writing, and your suggestions are helping me to become better. Thanks for your reviews for this fic and my other fic - Legends of the Digidestined.

J.D Guy - Welcome! and thanks for reviewing. I hope you'll be reading this.

Special note about Catrina / Bastemon:

I don't know whether Bastemon can really switch back and forth between her human and cat forms, but I thought it would be a really nice special ability for her to have. I was thinking of moulding her character to become similar to Catra from She-ra Princess of Powers series that I used to watch when I was little. I barely remember anything about that character, but writing about Catrina/Bastemon I suddenly thought about her, so why not? And note the small similarity between Catrina and Catra, although Chaos Specter's REAL reason of naming her Catrina will be revealed much, much, much later.

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P/s - Please check out my new fic as well, Book I - The Legends of the Digidestined

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