Another day, another chapter. Just keep cranking these things along. Sorry if this one is a bit different, the main focus for this one is a third person character.

Shoutouts to DigimonAT0318, MadDogLucario96, and Whiteling for the continual reviews. You guys keep the story going.

Anyways, let's keep it going.

Chapter 37: Mysterious Ruins! The Holy Stone!

Digital World. October 12th, 2002. 1054 Hours.
P.O.V. – Third Person

A violent sandstorm was kicking up in the desert as BlackWarGreymon just continued on his journey to find someone strong to fight with. He had already left a wake of destruction behind him; the wrecked Dark Towers and strong Digimon whose bodies were practically broken were a clear sign. The Tuskmon, Monochromon, and DarkTyranomon were just unfortunately in his way and paid for it with pain. Even with all the Digimon attacking him, BlackWarGreymon still wasn't satisfied.
"Isn't there anyone?" He questioned to himself as he just kept walking ahead. "Where are the worthy opponents?" He walked a bit further towards some rocky cliffs that peppered the area before he found a massive horde of Mammon in front of him. The twenty mammoths all blew their noses like they were elephants; indicating they were wanting a fight with him. BlackWarGreymon just looked at them without having much thought to them except for only one question… where did they all come from? He quickly figured out the answer when he looked up and saw Archnemon and Mummymon on a cliff looking down at him.

"Now, come back to us quietly!" The spider woman ordered, even though they were in their human disguises.
"You sure are putting up a fight…" Mummymon growled. "We had to use two hundred valuable Dark Towers to make these! Two hundred!" That confirmed BlackWarGreymon's question about where the Mammon horde came from. They were all Dark Tower Digimon.
"Interesting. They may be worthy opponents." He taunted his former creators. However, he knew that all of them were only created from ten Dark Towers, so they were clearly much weaker than him. Still, twenty Perfect-Level Dark Tower Digimon might actually give him something of a challenge.
"What was that?" Both Digimon were taken aback by his insult. Mummymon growled. "Mammon! Get him!" The Mammon complied and charged forward in four lines of five Mammon in each line in a stampede.

The large mammoths charged fast but BlackWarGreymon just stood still as they got closer. They soon ran past him but he was still standing.
"So…?" Mummymon was just waiting for the results… hopefully, BlackWarGreymon would soon fall to his knees after being charged. However, he just stood there without a scratch. The shocker came when four of the Mammon's skin exploded revealing their Dark Tower bodies and then the bodies exploded into dust; much to the absolute shock of Archnemon and Mummymon.
"No way! I can't believe it… tell me I didn't see what I saw…" Archnemon was completely dumbfounded by the strength of BlackWarGreymon.
"Well, if what you saw was four large Mammon disintegrating, then I can't tell you that because that's what you saw!" Mummymon shook his head. "It's unbelievable, he destroyed four Perfect-Level Digimon in an instant!" BlackWarGreymon was suddenly unimpressed with the horde now as he now proved they weren't any more worth of a challenge than anything else he faced. He turned back around and charged the remaining Mammon that were coming back around. The fight wasn't even a fight. All the Ultimate Digimon had to was make a quick slice and the mammoth Digimon would just explode into dust.

Both Archnemon and Mummymon continued to watch in shock before it was just too much for the witch woman.
"My precious Dark Towers…" She grew faint and fell over just to be caught by Mummymon. He continued to watch the absolute slaughter that was occurring before them. BlackWarGreymon cut his way through another Mammon before his mind started to drift into thought.
"I destroy…" The unstoppable warrior thought to himself as he destroyed another opponent. "And destroy…" Another one fell before him. "But I'm not satisfied." The remain Mammon charged him once more. "They're not weak. But still…" He destroyed one more. "What is this emptiness!?" He roared aloud.
"Emptiness?" Archnemon questioned as she got back up on her feet. She suddenly began to laugh, much to the confusion of the Ultimate Digimon who now had his foot on the neck of one Mammon. "That's just an illusion!" The Mammon under BlackWarGreymon's foot exploded shortly after. "You're the same as them. I created you with Dark Towers. You're just a puppet without life. Puppets don't think or feel anything. So he reason for that illusion of 'emptiness' of yours… Right… it must be program scum that got mixed in with the one hundred Dark Towers."

"Program scum?" BlackWarGreymon questioned as he didn't even look to slay another Mammon that tried to use the distracting conversation to its advantage. The rest went after him again, hoping he was conflicted enough to break him. "It would be so simple if I were just a Dark Tower Digimon. But…" He rapidly began to spin as he unleashed his own version of WarGreymon's Brave Tornado. Three Mammon got caught up in it and were destroyed instantly. "I suffer because I'm not!" He soon turned back to Archnemon and Mummymon. "And you tell me this pain is an illusion?" Archnemon shrugged her hands as Mummymon took a step forward.
"There's a way you can kill the pain."
"What?"
"Forsake your own self and do what we tell you to do. Ignore these stupid feelings your having and follow your damn orders!"
"Are we having this conversation again? I told you two before, I don't take orders from anyone. And I certainly won't obey someone weaker than me.
"What?" Mummymon growled again.

"Enough." Archnemon interrupted. "You can't provoke us." She looked to him for a moment before turning around. "Do what you want. We're done with you. So long." She began to walk away.
"Hey, wait up!" Mummymon tried to catch up to her as they returned back to their Dune Buggy. BlackWarGreymon soon turned his attention back to the Mammon as they roared once more and tried to destroy him.
"All of you… you really don't feel anything? You don't have a soul?" WarGreymon muttered as he watched them approach. He charged right back at them. "Answer me!" He screamed as he engaged them once more.

The Dune Buggy jumped a large hill and hit the ground hard but it still kept going.
"Hey, take it easy on this thing!" Archnemon shouted at her driver.
"Sorry…" Mummymon answered and took it a bit easier on the driving.
"Seriously… useless junk." growled Archnemon as she punched the dash board.
"Say, Archnemon…"
"What?"
"About the Holy Stones…"
"Oh, that again… those things you've been looking for?" She rolled her eyes.
"There's one around here." He informed. "How about we check it out?" He suggested to her. She responded to it by sighing.
"I suppose so… it's not like we've got anything better to do to cause destruction at the moment. Hey, is the rumor true?"

A sinister smile spread across the mummy's face.
"We'll find out if we break it."
"Up to you."
"Good!" He gripped the wheel and turned a different direction. "By the way, I wonder if we have souls."
"Oh please, don't you start too… I've never thought about tedious things like that."
"Of course, but still…"
"Just shut up and drive." The two of them continued on their way, unbeknownst that Tentomon was tailing them.
"Holy Stone, huh? Sounds like something Koushiro-han and the others need to be alerted to." He quickly flew away to spread the word to the Chosen Children.
"Why?" BlackWarGreymon continued to question as he continued to destroy the Mammon attacking him. "Why won't you answer me?" He turned to look at the few remaining that just kept going despite everything that had happened. "I envy you. All of you… who don't think about anything."

Motomiya Residence, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. October 12th, 2002. 1132 Hours.
P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

I was playing Dragon Quest VII on my PlayStation 1 when I heard the bathroom door open and saw Jun looking at me while having a bath towel wrapped around her body and head. She sighed.
"I really envy you, Daisuke." Oh, Gods, what is it today? I took a bite of my cookie that I had in my mouth. "All you do is eat, sleep, play and you don't think about anything else, do you?" Hey, I got the fate of the Digital World on my mind too, sis! Though I ain't planning on telling you that.
"I think about lots of stuff!" I shouted at her with my mouth full of chewed up cookie.
"Lots of stuff, like what?"
"Like…" Uh oh. Bad time for you to freeze up, brain! I need to think of something! "Lots of complicated stuff." I finally said. Vague answer but better than nothing I guess. "But if I think too much, my brain freezes so I need to take a break sometimes." Oh, why did I say that!? Damn it, my mouth and brain are clearly on two different wave lengths!
"I'm sure it's nothing serious." She scoffed.
"Shut up! What about you?"

She quickly sighed and turned slightly away from me.
"I…" She turned back to me and pointed to a spot that was on her face. "Look! I have a pimple on my chin!" She quickly had hearts in her eyes. "Could it be a sign that Yamato-kun has finally accepted my feelings?" That's a really weird way to give a sign of approval. "Wouldn't that be great? But if it's some ugly old guy…" I turned my attention back to Dragon Quest. "Daisuke, listen to me!" Jun got really upset at me ignoring her. She hurriedly went over to the power outlet and pulled the plug, shutting everything off!
"Hey, I didn't save yet! What do you think you're doing, you idiot!?"
"It's your fault for not listening to me!" I charged her… and received a hard slap in the face. I went back to my room as I rubbed my cheek that certainly was red with her hand print.
"Dammit… what a stupid sister…"
"Daisuke!" Chibimon ran over to me while holding my D-Terminal. "An e-mail from Hikari!" 'Tentomon found Archnemon. Meet at Headquarters!' It read. I nodded and grabbed a few things before heading out with Chibimon.

P.O.V. – Third Person

BlackWarGreymon stared down the final Mammon before his eye sight looked down and he saw a lone flower on the ground growing out of a small patch of grass. He looked at it closely as Mammon began his final charge at him before he realized that it would be crushed underneath the mighty hoof. BlackWarGreymon ducked down and let himself be stomped on, but trying hard not to let the flower be crushed. After taking multiple stomps, he threw the mammoth off and jumped into the air to release his devastating attack.
"Gaia Force!" The Mammon was completely destroyed upon the attack hitting it. BlackWarGreymon was once again alone, still unsatisfied with the fight. "Why did I protect this flower?" He thought to himself. "It's just a little flower…"

"Compassion, huh…" Osamu sighed as he sat at his desk and looked at his crest. The D-Terminal that Ken got him a few days ago beeped and he checked to see that he had received a message from Hikari. "'We know where Archnemon is. Sorry if we're being intrusive. Yagami Hikari.'" He finished reading it aloud for him and Monodramon. "Thanks…" He stood up at his desk when his door opened to reveal Ken with Wormmon on his shoulders.
"Onii-san… did you…"
"Yeah, I did. Monodramon, let's go!" The brothers headed back to the Digital World.

BlackWarGreymon kneeled down next to the flower and looked at it some more. Questioning why he went out of his way to protect it.
"You're the opposite of me. You're alive, but you don't feel sadness. I envy you. I envy you…" He then growled and stomped on the flower, crushing it under his scale covered foot and rubbing to make sure it was destroyed. He pulled up his foot and the flower was all but dead. But the Digimon still felt strange about his action. "Why do I feel pain? It was just a flower… so why? Where does this pain come from? The soul? Where is the soul?"

Out in a wide valley of green grass and large roads, there stood a large rock with a golden ring around it covered in digital letters; similar to the ones that Koushiro saw in ruins during the Chosen Children's last adventure.
"That's a Holy Stone?" Archnemon questioned as she and Mummymon hopped out of the car near a pile of Dark Towers.
"That's right."
"So if we break it, something interesting will happen?"
"That's the idea…"
"Okay then." She pulled out some hairs and blew them to the Dark Towers. All of them melded together and soon created a large Knight Digimon with a huge sword. "Go, Knightmon! Break that Holy Stone." The large armored Digimon complied with its orders and started to walk over to the stone.

It was getting close to sundown in the area BlackWarGreymon had walked into. His mind solely focused on trying to figure out the emptiness inside him and the search for a worthy opponent.
"We meet at last!" Agumon's voice rang out across the rocky valley that BlackWarGreymon was in. He looked ahead and saw a large rock spire about his height with Agumon on top of it. "I've been looking for you."
"For me? To fight?"
"Well… how about we talk first? Ah, I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Agumon. When I warp-evolve to Ultimate, I become WarGreymon. Er, well, I used to… I've kinda lost that ability… long story."
"Could it be… you were born from Dark Towers too?"
"No, I was born from a Digiegg." BlackWarGreymon sighed.
"Then it would be useless to talk." He started to walk past Agumon. He then stopped again. "No, we can talk." He turned around. "However, I want you to answer my questions."
"Questions?"

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

Hikari and I arrived to the area that Tentomon pointed us to and we saw this large knight walking towards this big stone in the middle of nowhere.
"What's… that stone?" I questioned. The knight was soon up to it and pulled out his sword before he started to swing at it. "What's that guy doing? Practicing swordsmanship?"
"But he's just going to damage the edge." observed XV-mon.
"Maybe he's strengthening it." Hikari guessed.
"I see!" I agreed.
"No, that's not it." Nefertimon countered. "I feel some power. That could be the Holy Stone I've heard rumors about."
"Holy Stone?"
"What's that?" Hikari asked.
"I don't know." Nefertimon shook her head. "But rumor has it, when a Holy Stone is destroyed, a frightening disaster will happen in this world." Our eyes widened upon hearing that. Now it made sense why Archnemon and Mummymon were here.
"Then, we have to stop him!" determined Hikari.
"Okay, we'll do it." I nodded. "Hikari-chan, you contact Takeru and the others."

P.O.V. – Third Person

"I think it's here…" Agumon put his hands to his chest as he was answering BlackWarGreymon's questions. "No, maybe here…" He moved his hands to his head. "Sorry, I don't really know where the soul is…"
"Even though you're alive, you don't know? Do souls really exist? Aren't they just an illusion?"
"They're not an illusion! Caring about someone, believing in them… Those feelings aren't illusions at all!"
"Then, let me ask. What is the purpose of a soul?"
"To let Digimon be Digimon, and humans be humans."
"But I'm just a lifeless body."
"Why would I have a soul?" Agumon just scratched his head.
"Your questions are so tough… I'm not good at this… Let's see, that's because…"
"Because…?"
"Sorry… can you repeat the question?" Agumon nervously chuckled.

Back at the Holy Stone, Knightmon quickly stopped swinging at the rock to try to strike down XV-mon who was distracting him. The dragon held the sword up from its sides to keep him from being split in half.
"Go for it, XV-mon!" Daisuke cheered out for his Digimon partner. Knightmon soon pulled out a second sword and got ready for the killing stroke.
"Silver Blaze!" Pegasmon's attack hit the knight in the head, knocking him to the ground.
"Daisuke-kun!" "We're here to help!" Takeru and Iori informed as all the Digimon grouped up. The broke away as Mummymon's cackling rang out and he fired his rifle at them. Archnemon ambushed them as well and unleashed large spider webs at them.
"This is the plan I drummed up! I won't let you get in the way!" Mummymon told the Chosen Children as Knightmon went back to swinging his sword at the Holy Stone.

"I'm not alive… I'm not a living creature." BlackWarGreymon said as the sun was now fully set, the sky barely illuminated by the sun now. "Should I have a soul, what would I gain from it?" BlackWarGreymon continued his deep, philosophical discussion with Agumon.
"Gain?" Agumon questioned, not really understanding where his opposite was going with it. A realization then hit him. "I know that! Friends!"
"Friends?"
"Yeah! If you have a soul, you're not just a thing anymore. You're a living creature just like us. So, we can become friends!"
"Friends…" The concept was very confusing to BlackWarGreymon. "What else? Is there anything more?"
"Anything more… What do you want?"
"I don't know."
"You don't know…?" Agumon sat on his tail, exasperated by all the questions.

"It's not friends… of course, it's not fame or money either." BlackWarGreymon was convinced that those were not the things to fill his emptiness. "It's something more important… Yes, the reason why I exist."
"The reason why you exist?"
"Yes. What should I do in this world? No, what must I do? If it's fighting the strong, that's fine. I'll devote myself to fighting and defeating my opponents." However, his mind quickly flashed back to the flower and he was confused once more. "But… If I have a soul and it gets in the way of fighting… I will get rid of it!" He declared.
"Y-you can't!" Agumon tried to counter his logic about removing the soul. "You can't get rid of your soul!"

"Now, take this!" Mummymon threw out his Snake Bandage attack at the Chosen Digimon. Archnemon did the same with her webs and XV-mon and Aquilamon were all tied up now in their sinister attacks.
"I can't move…" The eagle Digimon groaned as the web tightened around his neck. Nefertimon devolved back into Tailmon who began running over towards Aquilamon.
"Aquilamon, Jogress!" Tailmon alerted him. Archnemon wasn't having any of that and launched another web at the small cat. The web wrapped around her neck too.
"Tailmon!" Hikari cried as she ran over to her partner and tried to remove the web. The Chosen were in dire straits at the moment; facing off against three Perfects. Pegasmon was on the ground under Knightmon's boot and the knight was lifting his sword up to impale him.
"You can't cut my body with a sword!" Ankylomon shouted as he ran to Pegasmon's aid. The knight turned around and began stabbing Ankylomon instead. He was right about not being able to cut him, but it was still painful to get poked by the sharp blade. "Not fair, dagyaa… a sword isn't made for hitting…" The Chosen Children all watched in shock as they saw all their Digimon be in serious trouble.
"Let's tighten it up a little." cackled Mummymon as he and Archnemon laughed.

"Spiking Finish!" "Strike Fang!" Stingmon and Strikedramon arrived in the nick of time and destroyed the bandages and webs that freed two-thirds of the Chosen Digimon.
"X-Laser!" "Blast Laser!" XV-mon and Aquilamon fired their attacks and struck their former captors.
"Alright!" Daisuke pumped his fist.
"Ken-kun! Osamu-san!" Miyako called out as she turned to see the brothers running towards them.
"Sorry we're late!" Osamu apologized.
"We got held up! Daisuke, now's the time!" Ken shouted.
"Everyone, it's our chance!" Tailmon, who was now freed as well, ran over to Aquilamon.
"XV-mon!" "Stingmon!" "Jogress Evolve! PAILDRAMON!"
"Aquilamon!" "Tailmon!" "Jogress-Evolve! SILPHYMON!"
"Desperado Blaster!" Paildramon's fire bounces off of Knightmon's armor, but the Dark Tower Perfect is taken aback by the power of the attack.
"Megaton Press!" Ankylomon jumps on top of Knightmon and starts to rock on him. "How's that, huh? An eye for an eye, dagyaa!"
"Nice! Keep it up, Ankylomon!" cheered Iori as the fight turned back into the Chosen Children's favor.

"You can't do that! Getting rid of your soul…" Agumon continued to argue with BlackWarGreymon about the idea he had about removing his soul. "If you have a soul, it can't be a coincidence. Besides, it's ridiculous to get rid of your soul for fighting!" Agumon's voice echoed across canyon as it was bathed in the light of the night. "I think we can be friends. No, I'm sure that's the reason you have a soul!"
"Can you prove it?" BlackWarGreymon asked him as a star behind them glowed bright red in the sky.
"I sure will! It may take some time, though." Agumon then held out his hand. BlackWarGreymon contemplated what was being asked and he slowly began to raise his hand to shake with Agumon.
"Desperado Blaster!" "Top Gun!" Both Jogress attacks bounced of Knightmon's armor and he swung at them. They dodge it but his sword cracked and then shattered the metal band around the Holy Stone. It soon began to flash a glowing red. At the same moment, BlackWarGreymon was engulfed in pain before he could shake Agumon's hand.
"Wh-what's wrong?" Agumon was concerned for the Ultimate.
"I feel pain… Something is hurting me…"

"Wh-what's going on?" Daisuke questioned as everyone looked towards the Holy Stone.
"Something happened to the Holy Stone!" exclaimed Silphymon. Back in the canyon, BlackWarGreymon screamed in pain. He then immediately took off, leaving Agumon alone.
"Where are you going? Wait!" Agumon felt pain as well; he felt so close to being able to probably help BlackWarGreymon.
"Damn it!" Mummymon shouted as he fired his rifle at the Holy Stone; the wave of electricity not doing a thing to it. Knightmon's sword wasn't doing anything either.
"Our attacks aren't working at all." Archnemon observed. "Mummymon, did you really check it out carefully?"
"Well, I… Ah, damn it! I thought it was a great plan!"
"I swear.." Their attention was quickly turned to a dark cloud that was slowly approaching, which Archnemon guessed it could only be one thing. "BlackWarGreymon?" She turned back to her partner. "Mummymon, we'll retreat for now!"
"Got it!" The two of them fired back at the Chosen Children as they made their retreat.

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

"What's with those guys?" I questioned as Mummymon and Archnemon ran away from us.
"They realized they didn't stand a chance, so they ran away!" Miyako smirked.
"Uh, that's not it, Miyako-san!" Ken cried out. "Look!" He pointed to a dark cloud approaching… and we could see it was BlackWarGreymon.
"BlackWarGreymon!" Hikari exclaimed. He was coming towards the area fast. Knightmon stopped striking the Holy Stone to turn his attention to him. BlackWarGreymon just head-butted him and he exploded to dust before coming to a stop in front of the Holy Stone.
"What!?" I said.
"In just a second…" Miyako was intimidated by his power once more.
"Gaia Force!" BlackWarGreymon gathered his strength for an attack and struck the Holy Stone, cracking it!
"This is bad!" Silphymon shouted.
"We'll stop him!" Paildramon determined. The Digimon charged forward to stop him, but… BlackWarGreymon threw another Gaia Force, this time at them, blasting them all back and into their devolved forms.

"Pururumon!" Miyako screamed as she ran forward.
"You're kidding me, right?" I growled.
"They really are no match for him…" Osamu reluctantly admitted. With the distractions removed, BlackWarGreymon turned his attention back to the Holy Stone.
"Gaia Force!"
"It's breaking…" Iori observed as he kept striking the massive attack against the rock.
"Gaia Force!" We watched as the Holy Stone exploded into rubble and a dark tornado began to swirl around the ruins of it. The wind picked up greatly.
"It's sucking us in!" Takeru yelled. Miyako screamed once more as she felt herself getting picked up by the vortex.
"Miyako-san!" Ken cried as he ran to her and grabbed her arm before she could be carried any further. He then managed to get her back on the ground as the vortex got stronger.
"Everyone, run!" Iori ordered. We gathered our Digimon and managed to get away from the tornado.

We returned back to the hills and watched as the devastating tornado just kept swirling.
"This is terrible…" Hikari admitted.
"Who knows what this will do to the Digital World?" Osamu worried.
"There are more Holy Stones right?" Takeru turned to Plotmon.
"If I heard the rumors right, then there should be more." She said.
"And that means we need to protect them from BlackWarGreymon before anymore destruction can be spread." I determined.

Of course, do we have anything that can be able to stop BlackWarGreymon…?

It sure is going to take a lot of firepower to stop him, that's for sure. It's gonna take heart, faith and steel... wait a second... Oh, sorry, that's from Highlander, was watching it last night. Good movie.

Anyways, I've said all that I want to say for this, so take care.

"Push the button, Frank."