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Chapter Fifteen

Kouichi was able to spirit evolve into Loewemon and fought Cherubimon. Unfortunately Cherubimon was only a hologram. They headed to the Rose Morning Star to free Rei and Ophanimon. Cherubimon saw them approaching and went to where he kept Ophanimon. Cherubimon tried to persuade Ophanimon into joining him, but she would not be swayed.

"Your heart is misguided Cherubimon. I do not wish to impose my will upon this world, but to bring peace to it. "

"I see you are still against me. Do what you will Ophanimon, but soon you will regret this folly. You will wish you had not been so stubborn when you see your precious Lady Rei engulfed in darkness. Soon she will be no more and all that will remain of her will be a memory."

Cherubimon left Ophanimon to think about what he had just said. She didn't know that Rei had also been captured. Now she was worried not for herself, but for the child that was so dear to her. She hoped that the other children would arrive in time and save Rei. She knew if she died it would mean the end of the digital world.

Meanwhile the others had met Oryxmon after having defeated some Phantomon. Oryxmon offered to lead them to Rei and Ophanimon. At first they didn't trust him, but after Patamon said that he was a friend they agreed to let him help them.

"So, do you really know where Rei is being kept?" Kouji asked.

"Yes, but we must get there without being noticed. If Cherubimon finds you it will be impossible to reach her and Ophanimon."

"Is she far from here?" Izumi said.

Oryxmon didn't answer.

"We must hurry. We are running out of time."

"What do you mean?" Said Takuya.

"I mean that if we don't reach Lady Rei soon it will be too late. However, even if we reach her she will not wake up. There is something of great importance that she is missing."

"What do you mean she won't wake up?"

"He means that she is sleeping in the darkness. Cherubimon put her there so that she wouldn't interfere with his plans."

Everyone turned to look at Kouichi.

"I was the one that took her to Cherubimon and helped Mercurymon take away her memories. I'm sorry."

Everyone stayed quiet.

"It's alright, you didn't know what you were doing. You were in Cherubimon's control."

Kouji put his hand on Kouichi's shoulder to reassure him. He looked up and remembered something. He turned to Oryxmon.

"Oryxmon, what is it that she needs to wake up?"

"She needs her memories."

"How can we get them?"

"There is a necklace in which all of her memories were sealed by Lord Seraphimon in order to protect her. She lost it while she was still remembering her past and so a part of her was still connected to it. Because of that she is trapped inside her own mind. Unfortunately Cherubimon has filled her mind with darkness and soon she will be fully engulfed by it. Because she is a being of light she will not last much longer. Once she is overcome with darkness she will be lost forever. We must find her and get her away from the darkness that is binding her. Even if she cannot wake up she will no longer be in any peril."

"But, we can wake her."

Kouichi took out the necklace that Mercurymon had ordered him to hide. Everyone looked at him in shock.

"When Mercurymon took it away he ordered me to hide it so that you wouldn't be able to find it and she wouldn't wake up. I felt bad for her for some reason and decided to keep it. I forgot about it until now."

"Now we can return Lady Rei back to normal. We must hurry and get to her before it is too late."

Oryxmon led them to where Rei was being kept. She was laying on a platform in a dark room. When they approached her they saw that wisps of darkness were floating around her. Some of the darkness entered her body and she was sweating. They noticed that her skin lacked color and was devoid of any light. Kouji touched her and saw that she had a fever.

"She's burning up."

"It looks like she's having a nightmare." Takuya said.

"That is the effect darkness has on her. Hurry, already the darkness is visible in her physical appearance."

Kouji picked her up and they left the room. Kouichi took out the necklace and Kouji placed it around her neck. They waited for her to wake up. She opened her eyes slowly and everyone sighed in relief.

"…Kouji-kun…" She said weakly.

"It's okay. You're safe now."

Rei looked around and saw Kouichi.

"Kouichi-kun…,you found…your true...power…."

"Yes, thank you."

Rei smiled at him.

Kouji carried Rei as she was too weak to walk on her own. A few wisps of darkness were still around her. They reached the place where Ophanimon was being kept. She was trapped inside a cage made of light. The light from Ophanimon made Rei feel better and the darkness that had been surrounding her was dispersed.

"You made it and you have rescued my dear Rei."

Izumi and Jumpei tried to free Ophanimon, but they couldn't break the cage that she was being kept in. Opanimon stopped them and told them about how Seraphimon, Cherubimon, and her maintained the peace in the digital world.

"Soon we saw that even though we were powerful and devoted to our cause we could not keep this world peaceful by ourselves and so we created Rei. She is a pure entity even more so than ourselves. She is perhaps the most powerful of all of us and yet because of her kindness and innocence she is unaware of that. Her true purpose is to keep this world balanced and so she resides in our castle with us. She would go out and maintain the peace between the digimon, but she did more than that. She is the keeper of the light of our world because she was created from it. Because we feared the day in which our world could be destroyed we created her so that even if it was destroyed with her light we would be able to recreate our world. In a way she is the heart of our world and if she is lost then so are we.

When Cherubimon became corrupted Seraphimon did all he could to protect Rei. He sealed her memories away so that even if she was captured by Cherubimon he would not be able to use her to destroy our home. Even before that, when she was born, Seraphimon appointed one of the legendary warriors to be her guardian. From the beginning she seemed to have a strong connection with the warrior of light, perhaps because she is the epitome of light. And so he was appointed as her guardian and she was not to wake up until he returned."

Suddenly Cherubimon appeared.

End Chapter Fifteen

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