Episode 6: Trapped in the Dark Ocean! Demon's Revenge!
The Chosen Children and their digimon were walking through a dark eerie forest. As they were walking, Tailmon kept looking around her.
"You know, it feels like I've been here before." She said. Everyone stopped and turned to her. They also started looking around.
"You know, I feel the exact same way." Ken said after a while. Takeru nodded.
"I think we might have been here before and something big happened, but I don't remember what." He pondered. Hikari shivered.
"I don't remember what it is, but this place feels to be overrun by the power of darkness." She said and continued walking, "Let's just get out of here." Without any hesitation, the rest followed her.
Little did the Chosen Children know, Demon was watching their actions through an orb. "Yes, keep on walking, Chosen Children. Soon, you will be trapped for all eternity and then I will have my revenge." He turned to a dark shadowy figure behind him. "As I promised, the one you want will soon arrive for you to do with as you please."
"Excellent." The figure responded, "It won't be long now before I will rule all of the worlds." He turned to some more figures behind them. "My minions, invade the human world." With that he and Demon burst into a round of evil laughter.
It didn't seem possible, but the forest they were in just seemed to get darker and creepier as they walked.
"Ah, what is this place?" Daisuke cried out as he stopped walking. Everyone stopped and turned to him.
"Calm down, Daisuke, I'm sure it's nothing too bad." Taichi told him. Yamato thought for a moment.
"We don't seem to be going anywhere in this direction, maybe it's best we just turn around and go back the way we came." He suggested. Taichi shook his head.
"No way, somewhere this dark and creepy just has to have the remaining Great Demon Lords in it. Let's ambush them for a change!" He told the group. Yamato turned to him in anger.
"You idiot, what if they have set a trap for us in this forest, then what?" Taichi turned back to them.
"Yeah, like they'd be smart enough to do that!" He told his friend
"Taichi!" Yamato grabbed the collar of Taichi's shirt, "Just listen, is it really worth risking everyone's lives just to see if we can find the remaining Great Demon Lords in this forest?"
"Yamato, you really need to stop worrying over nothing. We'll be fine!" Taichi screamed back. As this was going on, Hikari turned away from the two, having heard something.
"No, it can't be..." Wanting to confirm her suspicions, Hikari took off in the direction she heard the sound from.
"Hikari!" Tailmon cried, noticing her partner's strange behaviour and ran after her.
"Hey, wait up Hikari!" Takeru cried out to her, also noticing her running off and followed. Patamon was close behind him.
"Hey, where are you guys going?" Daisuke asked as he chased after them.
"Wait for me, Daisuke!" V-mon called out as he chased after him.
"I'm coming too!" Ken said as he followed with Wormmon in his arms. Agumon and Gabumon tugged on their partner's pants to get their attention.
"Hey Taichi, everyone's leaving." Agumon told his partner.
"You don't want to be left behind, do you?" Gabumon told Yamato. The two boys turned away from each other.
"Hey, wait up!" Taichi cried out as he ran off after their friends. Yamato was close behind.
It wasn't long before the group reached a cliff and stopped. As her eyes went wide, Hikari let out a gasp.
"No, I knew it..." She mumbled. Ken also saw what she saw, causing his eyes to go wide.
"No, why are we here?" He asked in disbelief. Takeru also saw it and his face turned to anger.
"Why won't this place just leave Hikari alone?" He asked with anger in his voice. The rest of the group was confused.
"Huh, where are we?" Taichi asked.
"We're at the Dark Ocean." Hikari answered him. The rest let out a gasp.
"But I don't see any ocean." Daisuke said. Almost as soon as he said this, there was a flash allowing all of them to see the Dark Ocean. Tailmon's eyes narrowed.
"Now I remember why that forest looked so familiar. It was where I had lost my holy ring. Three years ago we were looking for my holy ring in this forest when Hikari, Ken, Miyako, Hawkmon, Wormmon, and I somehow found our way to this very Dark Ocean." She explained. "Damn this ocean, what exactly does it want with Hikari?"
"So, how exactly do we get out of here?" Taichi asked. Ken thought for a moment.
"I don't remember how I left this place when I was a kid." He answered truthfully, "But when I was here with Hikari and Miyako, one of the dark tower digimon appeared, opening up a gate back to the digital world. I doubt that will happen this time though." While deep in his thought, Ken grabbed his D-3 and looked at it. "I wonder if my dark digivice hold the key to opening up the gate back to the Digital World."
"Well it did open up a gate here that one time to allow us to send Demon here." Daisuke said, "Maybe it will be able to get us out of here now." With a nod, Ken held up his D-3 and began to focus on bringing out its power. As his D-3 glowed, Ken let out screams of pain. Knowing Ken would be able to handle it, everyone turned to face the direction he was pointing his D-3. To their surprise nothing was happening. After about thirty seconds, Ken dropped his D-3 to his side, giving up.
"It's not working." He told them in shame, "I guess a digivice of darkness cannot open up a gateway from a world of darkness to a world of light." Takeru thought for a moment.
"When I came here with Patamon and Tailmon so that we could rescue Hikari, it was Angewomon that opened up a gate back to the human world. Maybe it does take the power of light to return us." He said, walking beside Hikari and placed a hand on her shoulder. As if reading his mind, the girl nodded to him and turned to Tailmon.
"Tailmon, see if you can get us out of here." She said as her D-3 and crest began to glow. A burst of energy came out of her D-3, turning the white part a light shade of pink in the process, towards the crest of light. The symbol of light flew out towards Tailmon who began to glow.
"Tailmon Super Evolve!" She cried out as she spun around. Her whole body burst into light as she grew several feet, her body becoming more humanoid. Her tail regenerated into her body and her ears repositioned themselves to the side of her head. Long hair grew from her head as eight wings grew from her back. The green clawed gloves she wore came off, the one on her left hand being replaced by a long white glove with two wings on them. As she turned around, a face shield came down over her blue eyes, covering the top half of her face. "Angewomon!"
Glowing in pink light, Angewomon flew above the others. Focusing her energy, she let off her light in attempt to open up a gate back to the Digital World or even the human world if necessary. After a minute of trying, she sighed and flew back down to the others.
"I'm sorry, Hikari, but I just can't seem to open up a gate this time." She told her partner. This put Hikari in a desperate state.
"What? Does that mean we are trapped here?" She fell to her knees, "We're going to die here, aren't we?" She held her head in her hands.
"Hikari, I promise you we'll get out of here." Her digimon told her.
"How? You weren't able to open up a gate! We're going to be stuck here forever, I know it!" As she was panicking, Takeru walked beside her and put his hand on her shoulder.
"She's right, Hikari, we will get out of here." He told her, "We just can't give up."
"Maybe Koushiro knows a way to get us out of here." Ken suggested and pulled out his D-Terminal. After writing an explanation of what had happened to them, he sent the e-mail and gasped.
"What is it Ken?" Daisuke asked him.
"I'm unable to send e-mails from here..." He answered.
It was such a nice day out in Odaiba, that the Chosen Children had decided to meet there. At the moment, the only one they were waiting for was Mimi. To fill the time, Koushiro decided to update the rest.
"I got an e-mail from Ken this morning." He told them. The four Chosen Children there turned to him.
"What was it about?" Iori asked.
"Well they were attacked by Belphemon last night." He explained. The group gasped. "He easily managed to swat down all their digimon. They were only able to beat him when Omegamon gave his power to Imperialdramon so that he could become Paladin Mode."
"Paladin Mode... Isn't that what he became when they fought Armagemon in Tokyo Bay?" Miyako asked, to be answered by Koushiro's nod.
"I remember that. Paladin Mode was very strong." Iori said. It was then that Mimi arrived.
"Sorry I'm late everyone!" She called out as she ran up to them, "But I do got some good news."
"What's your good news?" Sora asked her.
"Wallace e-mailed me back. He's coming to Japan and will be here tomorrow." She told the group. Everyone smiled.
"That's great. Nothing can go wrong today!" As soon as Jyou said this, the sky went dark. Jyou sighed, "I knew I shouldn't have said anything..."
"Look, what's that!" Sora pointed up at what appeared to be an ocean that had ripped its way into the sky. Miyako gasped.
"I know that place!" She cried out, "It's the Dark Ocean. I went there with Hikari and Ken once."
"But what is it doing in the sky?" Iori asked. It wasn't long before digimon started coming from the opening.
"Those are Hangyomon!" Koushiro recognized the digimon from when the original Chosen Children had fought MetalSeadramon. They had chased them as they tried to escape inside of Whamon. As soon as they all had exited from the gate, the gate to the Dark Ocean closed up.
"Quick everyone, evolve!" Iori ordered and all their digimon evolved to perfect.
With six perfect level digimon facing them, the Hangyomon let out a laugh. "Strike Fishing!" They cried out as they launched their harpoons at the perfect digimon. AtlurKabuterimon flew out of the way of the attacks, as did Garudamon and Lilimon. Zudomon blocked the attacks with his hammer. Silphymon grabbed one of the harpoons and yanked on it sending the Hangyomon on the other end of the rope flying towards him, which he started punching. The harpoons just bounced off of Shakkoumon.
"Now it's our turn. Horn Buster!" AtlurKabuterimon launched his electric attack from his horn at some Hangyomon, killing them.
"Shadow Wing!" The attack came from Garudamon's wings and flew at some more Hangyomon, killing them as well.
"Hammer Spark!" The electric attack launched itself at some more of the evil aquatic digimon when Zudomon brought his hammer to the ground.
"Flower Cannon!" Several more Hangyomon were shot at by Lilimon.
"Top Gun!" Silphymon shot his attack at some more of the Hangyomon.
"Aramitama!" The red laser which shot out from Shakkoumon's eyes took care of the rest.
"Well they weren't so tough." Miyako commented as their digimon returned to their child forms.
"Yes, but why did they come here?" Iori pondered. In the meantime, Koushiro was trying to send Ken and the others an e-mail about this.
"Um guys, we got a problem." He said. Everyone turned to him.
"What is it?" Sora asked him.
"I can't send Ken and the others an e-mail." He said, "At first I thought maybe Ken's D-Terminal was having a problem, but I can't send any of them an e-mail." This worried everyone.
"You don't think they're..." Mimi trailed off, unable to say what she was thinking.
"No, they can't be!" Miyako refused to believe what Mimi was implying. Koushiro thought for a moment.
"I wonder if this is somehow related to those Hangyomon." He thought some more, "That one time when Hikari was transported to the Dark Ocean, I talked to her afterwards. She said that there she had met some Hangyomon who had wanted her to free them from the evil spirals that were on them. When she had Angewomon free them, they turned into some creatures and wanted to take her to their master so that she could become his bride. Luckily Angewomon managed to shoo them off."
"What are you suggesting happened to them?" Jyou asked.
"Well I can't be positive, but I think they may be trapped in the Dark Ocean with the Hangyomon's master right now." Koushiro told him. Everyone gasped.
Angewomon flew ahead as the rest followed her on the ground. They were still searching for a way out. Hikari was still looking pretty down. Takeru turned to her with a smile.
"Cheer up, Hikari. I just know we'll find a way out of here." He told her. When he looked up, he noticed Angewomon had stopped and was now looking out into the ocean.
"Something's coming." She told them. The other's turned to the ocean an noticed a shadow heading towards where they were. Hikari let out a scream and fell back to her knees, clutching her head in her hands.
"The darkness is approaching! There is no escape!" She cried out in fear. Taichi ran in front of his sister and clutched her shoulders.
"Hikari, it will be alright." He told her. "You control the light, so you can always fight the darkness. Don't give up!" The rest were still facing the approaching creature. As it got closer they could make it out. Its head almost looked like an octopus's. Its left arm and legs looked to be made out of tentacles. His right arm seemed to have many tentacles form into one big one. Its body was blue and there were two red wings on its back. It wore a juzu around its neck and what looked like two holy rings on its right leg. Chains were wrapped around both of its arms.
"What is that?" Yamato asked. Ken pulled out his digimon analyzer.
"That is Dagomon." He told them. "He's at the perfect level."
"Well then we shouldn't have too much trouble beating him." Daisuke said. Dagomon was now right in front of them.
"At last," He said, "I will have my bride." Everyone gasped, except Hikari who was still in her defeated position.
"You!" Angewomon cried out, "You're the one who is responsible for destroying Hikari's self esteem, aren't you?" Dagomon turned his head to her.
"And what if I am?" He asked her mockingly. Angewomon was angrier then she had ever been before.
"Holy Arrow!" She fired her attack at Dagomon. He rose up his right arm and knocked it aside. Everyone gasped.
"Innumerable Tentacles!" He raised his left arm and scratched at Angewomon with the tentacles. Screaming, Angewomon fell to the ground. Tentacles then reached out and grabbed the angel digimon. "Now for my bride." More tentacles grabbed Hikari, who didn't put up any fight.
"Hey, you put her down!" Takeru screamed. His D-3 began to glow and Patamon flew forward.
"Patamon Evolve!" He cried out as he spun around. With a flash of light he was in his new form. "Angemon!"
Angemon flew after Dagomon who was retreating. "Heaven's Knuckle!" Unfortunately, the attack had no effect. The Chosen Children were helpless as Dagomon made away with Hikari and Angewomon.
To Be Continued...