Discaimer: That took forever but I'm back and ready to write this chapter, this shouldn't take long.

Chapter 13:

Legend of the Digidestined

"Alright my uncle says he'll be here in a few hours," Matt told the digidestined gathered in his mother's living room, "But before he gets here maybe we should pump our guest for information."

The others follow the young adult as he walked over to a nearby door and open it to reveal his younger brother tied to a computer chair. When Matt approached the teenager, he bent down and removed the sock from his mouth that had served as a gag and discreetly placed a recorder on the desk behind him, "I was wondering when you'd show up again, so what now, come to pump me for information?" TK smirked as he looked up at the confused expression on the face of his host's brother, "It's only a wooden door, I could hear every word you said."

"Shut up now or else I'll..." Matt started but was cut off by the cackling of his possessed brother.

"You'll what, shout out more of your idle threats, you know as well as I do that you'd never harm TK," Devimon countered but was surprised by the calm, almost cocky look on Yamato's face.

"I don't think we'll have to worry about that, look what we found," the blond said as he reached into his front jeans pocket. When it reemerged , the crest of hope was clenched in his fist and Matt lifted it above his brothers head and placed it around his neck, "Any trouble from you and I'll have Takato over there zap ya like he did last time, now are you ready to talk?"

'Ha, he's got you now, and as soon as Uncle Mitsuo gets here, he's gonna take us away and get rid of you for good,' TK shouted at his possessor 'I told you before, if I die, you die. Besides, this isn't over yet, I've still got an ace up my sleeve. But for now, let's just wait and see what happens,' Devimon retorted in his mind before wrinkling his nose and scowling, "Fine."

"Good, first off, how are you still here? We all saw Tai's cousin remove your data."

"That was just my non vital data, all my memories and consciousness I made sure to encode deep within your brother's mind," Devimon smirked as he attempted to tap on his head, temporarily forgetting the bondages holding his hands.

"So what you're saying is you're powerless now, am I correct?" Izzy interrupted and watched as TK averted his eyes in a way that meant "yes".

"I guess that explains why you were so easy to catch, now for my next question. What were you doing for them?"

"Nothing, all I had to do was make sure you arrived in Faminemon's village and that your defenses were gone when you did," Devimon told them, finding no point in lying; after all, he'd been betrayed.

"So you sent the messages from Gennai?" Yolei interrupted from her spot in the corner of the room.

"No, only the last one, I still can't believe you all fell for my trap. Maybe you should get caller I.D.," TK smirked and was met by twenty six pairs of angry eyes.

"So after you saw what the Horsemon could do, you thought they might help you get you revenge," Matt accused and the cocky grin remained on his brother's face.

"Well I figured if I can't kill you someone ought to."

Matt grinned with victory but Izzy met him with an alarming frown, "Matt I think he's just agreeing with you so he doesn't have to tell us the truth. Devimon has never been much of a follower and he's still inside TK, he could come at us with a gun if he wanted revenge, no I think he needed something else from them."

The annoyed look on his younger brother's face told Matt that once again, Izzy was right, "Alright Devimon, what's really in it for you?"

"That's none of your concern!" he spat back, his forehead wrinkled.

Matt nodded to Takato and the Crests of Faith and Hope began to shine and Takeru released a scream of anguish, "Fine, I just wanted out of this damn body."

Matt did not seem convinced by the response of the panting boy, but stopped Takato none the less, "Yeah right, you don't need anyone's help getting out, you've said so yourself."

"Yeah but if I do, I'll go back to Digi-Hell and your brother will go wherever it is you humans go to when you perish, and I don't think either of us wants that."

"No we don't, but still why would you want to get out of my brother, I thought this was your ultimate revenge?" Yamato questioned and TK only sighed.

"I don't have to explain myself to you."

"Takato hit him again," Matt ordered and once again the crests shone and TK yelped in pain.

"I'm not talking, it's none of your business," Takeru panted as the pain stopped.

"Aga…" the older boy started but was cut off.

"Matt right now I think there's a bigger question, like why would the Horsemon be able to help you?" Izzy pointed out once again, irritating his friend.

"Ah well that's a long story but I suppose I could tell you if you'd really like to hear," Devimon smirked then waited until one of the digidestined nodded for him to continue, "Do you remember the story of the original digidestined that Gennai told you eight years ago, of how the five of them came to save the digital world from Apocalymon who had come from behind the wall of fire. Well what Gennai forgot to tell you was that Apocalymon wasn't the only digimon to escape. You see the Digital world was once an pure place, untainted by evil. But once the wall began to fade away, the sins from the world beyond it, known as Quarantined, were released, hatred, jealousy, lust, fear, pride, anger, sorrow, sloth, envy, vanity, rap music. The children were called to save the Digital world from becoming tainted, but as you can see that didn't happen."

"What the hell does this have to do with the Horsemon?" Matt complained as TK grinned back at him.

"I was getting to that. Well as I'm sure your aware, within any group there's bound to be arguments. After one such incident one of the digidestined stormed off on his own and was attack by a rookie leveled digimon known as Grimmon. It would have been an easy victory had it not been for the anger that consumed him and allowed the digimon to take control. When Grimmon realized what had happened he returned to his companions, Grudgemon, Scarcemon, and Maladiemon. Yeah that's right, he was possessed by one of the Four Horsemon; they all were. Soon after, Grimmon began tearing the digidestined apart from the inside, with a little help from Grudgemon. And one by one the digidestined fell into th…"

"Shut up, you're making this crap up!" Matt yelled as he got in his younger brother's face. TK only laughed as Tai tried to hold him back as a faint shine that had been emanating from Henry's crest dulled.

"If you don't believe me, ask your friend Gennai, he'll tell you," TK continued to smile as Tai nodded to Izzy who began typing away at his laptop.

Moments later a man's face appeared on the screen and an electronic voice came from the speakers, "Hello children, do you need something? And why is TK tied to a chair?"

"Let's just say that he wasn't as de-possessed as we thought. Gennai we were wondering if you could tell us whatever happened to the original digidestined."

There was a long silence afterwards before a sigh finally was heard, "I knew you'd ask me this some day, I just hoped I'd have retired by then. You see, about a week or two after their battle with Apocalymon, the digidestined were attacked. They still hadn't fully recovered and they, they, they were killed."

"'m sorry Gennai, we didn't know. I guess you were right Matt, Devimon was lying after all," Izzy admitted as Matt smiled in triumph.

"I see, so this is why you've asked me. Tell me, exactly what did Devimon tell you," Gennai asked, a slight trembling in his voice.

"He was trying to convince us that the original digidestined were possessed by the Horsemon," Davis told him joining the others around the computer.

"That's because it is true, what reason do I have to lie at the moment!" Devimon yelled and received an angry glare from his host's brother.

"Takato hit him aga…"

"Matt perhaps you should let me handle this, besides I have a few questions of my own to ask him?" Gennai interrupted to everyone's surprise.

"Uh… alright, well then I guess we'll be outside if you need us. Come on guys, let's give them some space."

After the last of the digidestined had left the room, and the door had been closed, the man on the computer screen directed his glare at the blond ties to the chair. "I suppose you're probably wondering why I didn't tell them the truth."

"Not really."

"Be that as it may, I implore you to you to tell them no more. If they were to find out the truth, I don't believe they would be able to do what needs to be done."

"So what, I told you before I don't really care, no matter how this battle ends, I'll win," TK told him, but for a split second, his confident glare had weakened and his blue eyes trembled.

"Hmm if you won't do it for them, then do it for yourself, who you used to be."

"You know as well as I do that that part of my life has been over for a thousand years, ever since…" in a temporary lapse of control, a memory flashed before the true TK's eyes but, it was gone before he knew what he saw, "So what now, are you going to do away with the kid and me, like your kind did with the others?"

"I'm afraid so, I can't allow your evil to corrupt the digidestined," Gennai spoke grimly, terrifying the Takeru, while Devimon continued to smirk.

"I suppose if you must but first may I ask you a question?" the man on the computer screen nodded, having not foreseen the pain the query would bring, "Do you even remember their names?"

He wasn't sure if it was the cold way he asked or the question itself, but Gennai felt a sharp pain within his heart, "Yes, their names were Takemi, Hajime, Yue, Hiroshi, and Naruki."

A serious look returned to Gennai's face which seemed to put TK on edge. Luckily at that moment the telephone rang and a second later matt entered the room, his hand covering the microphone of the wireless phone in his hand, "Hey my dad's on the phone and he wants to talk to TK, so put him on," the nineteen ordered but a grin was still plastered on his face.

"I'm sorry but TK doesn't want to come out right now, please call back and try again."

"Why you errrr. Fine if you won't let him out then you talk to my dad, but I'm warning you right now, you try and get my little brother in trouble, you're dead." Matt held the speaker up to the sixteen year olds ear and uncovered the receiver.

"Hello this is TK, who is this?" Devimon spoke innocently, in a slightly exaggerated imitation of his host, "Oh dad….. Hmmm is that right? …… Well now that I understand I can tell you, go to hell you jacka…."

Matt pulled the phone away and cover his brother's mouth with his palm," I'm sorry dad, he doesn't feel well right now, I'll have him call you back later," the man hung up the phone and turned back to his blond hostage, "What did I just tell you!?!?!"

"To act like TK and I did. He was practically screaming it in our head." Devimon told him nonchalantly and watched as the nerve on the older boy's forehead began to throb.

"Er… Takato hit him…" once again Yamato was interrupted mid threat as a small beeping sound came from his digital wristwatch. "Hm ten minutes till class starts, guess I'll have to skip."

"No Matt you should go, it only takes one person to watch, and besides, I don't think we're getting any information out of him," Izzy told him as he nodded towards TK.

"I guess your right maybe I could leave for an hour or two if someone's willing to watch him. It's just, I just wanna make sure my brother's gonna be ok. If Devimon manages to escape then, I… I might never see my little brother again."

Tai could see the distress in his friend's eyes but knew he shouldn't ask about it, real men never talk about their feelings, "Don't worry about it Matt, we'll all watch him in shifts till you get back. Who wants to watch him first?"

"Um I guess I will," a blue haired boy said raising his hand.

"Alright, eh, whoever you are."

"Henry, I'm one of Takato's friends."

"Okay, alright guys let's go," Tai said and pointed towards Izzy's laptop, where Gennai had been minutes ago.

As most of the others opened up their portals into the digital world, and the rest walked out the door, Matt bent down to face level with his tied up brother and ruffled his hair, "I'll see you later TK, I promise, we'll fix this," the college student then bent down to the ground, picked up the sock that they had used as a gag, and shoved it in his brother's mouth before turning back to Henry, "If he gives you any trouble, just call me."

Henry sat down on TK's bed and watched carefully as one by one his friends disappeared into the computer. When the last of them was gone he turned back to TK, and removed the freshly placed sock, "We need to talk."

"Yeah, I kind of figured. Why else would you volunteer to look after someone you barely know?" Devimon smiled as a guilty look appeared on the blue haired boy's face.

Henry pulled his Crest of Time out of his shirt and a faint shine came over it, trapping Devimon in a hypnotic trance, "It's just that before while you were telling your story, I kept getting these strange flashes, visions of something, I think it might have been the past or something. But when that man, Gennai, spoke, I saw nothing. I guess what I'm trying to say is, I think you were telling the truth. And I was wondering if you would tell me what happened next."

Seconds went by and Devimon continued to stare at the crest, having heard what the boy said and yet almost unable to respond. Noticing this Henry passed his hand in front of the blonds face. His blue eyes blinked and he looked up at the Tamer, "Huh?"

"I asked if you'd tell me the rest of the legend."

"Oh yes, of course. Well truth be told I don't see why I should, none of you seemed to interested before," Devimon could see the disappointment in the boy's eyes and began to waver, " alright I'll make you a deal, I'll tell you what happened but you have to do me a favor first."

"It depends, what's the favor?" Henry asked, his arms now crossed authoritatively, believing himself to have the power.

"Untie my ropes and let me go."

"Not a chance."

"Can't blame a mon for trying, alright, I'll tell you if you give me a piece of gum, I can't get the taste of sock out of my mouth." Henry pulled a pink Orbit gum container from his pocket and slipped a piece into the possessed boy's mouth, "Alright, now where did I leave off? Oh right, now I remember, one by one, the digidestined fell into their grasps. It's said that the fifth and youngest never spoke or looked up or showed emotion from that day on, as if something had a hold over his heart. The name of this creature was never written but I believe that was the soul of the Four Horsemon of the Apocalypse's dark master. You see the goal of the Horsemon was and most likely still is to light the green, yellow, red and black flames and summon upon their dark master using the data they absorb from digimon they destroy through their unique powers. It is for this reason they desired the digidestined's forms. For Grimmon discovered more then he expected when he found himself in the young boy's body. Through his memories, he discovered the existence of the fifteen crests of the digital world and the immense data they hold and that the digidestined were destined to receive five of these said crests to protect in one week's time."

"So they thought if they used the crests' power they could summon upon their master faster," Henry figured out and TK nodded his head in agreement, glancing back at the Crest of Time from time to time.

"Yes, but fortunately for the digital world, their plan didn't succeed. Somehow the protectors of the crests caught wind of what had happened. When the 'digidestined' arrived, they sealed them away, knowing they could not kill the children, and stripped them of their destinies, this way if they were to ever to awaken, they could never find the crests and use them for their dark deeds. But still according to the prophecy it may be all for naught" the serious look that Devimon had been carrying seemed to fade as he closed his eyes as seemed to be trying to remember something, "I believe that the actual words were, 'As destinies cross through lines of blood, and a six thousand year seal is broken, the four flames shalt burn as one. A great beast shalt be summoned from the darkness, to consume the digital world and… and…' I… I don't remember the rest," Devimon began to shake, but this went unnoticed by Henry who seemed to be in a trance of his own.

Henry's Vision

A strange vibration came through Gotsumon's shovel as he dug deeper into the ground in his archeological dig. Knowing that he found something, he began to brush the ground with his tiny duster. At first it appeared to be an ordinary box but as more and more dust was moved, the digimon began to see through it until the object inside became quite clear. Inside, he could see the face of a young human boy with goggles hidden in his brown hair, about twelve years in age, "Hey everyone come here, I think I found something."

Several other digimon began to gather around and were shocked at what they saw. Quickly they began digging until the cover of the large box was unearthed and the boy's body was visible to all. It wasn't until this moment however that the digimon had truly examined the multiple symbols covering it, among with was a small circle in the middle. As Gotsumon placed his hand on it in his attempt to decipher the writing, the circle began to glow, and the lid disappeared. Terrified, the rock digimon fell over backwards in surprise as the boy's eyes flickered open and he slowly sat up and looked around, "Hm I've been asleep for a long time. I really must thank you for awakening me," the boy said with an evil smirk on his face. He waved his hand and the digimons' eyes became bright red and each began to glare angrily at the others. He watched with glee as they began to fight and delete one another until only one was left. At this point the boy lifted his arm once again and shouted, "Casualties of War!" suddenly a red ribbon like beam of light shot forth and wrapped the digimon, tightening its grip until the champion leveled digimon burst into data.

The brown eyed boy smirked as he looked into his palm then seemed to speak to himself, "Hm I see my powers have grown in the time we were asleep Takemi, I can't wait to see what else they can do, but first, I guess we have some digging to do. You know in retrospect, it might have been a good idea to keep a few of them alive." He then picked up a nearby shovel and began to search for his buried companions.

Henry blinked rapidly as he came out of his trance, only to find Takeru staring at him, "So what did you see?"

OK I cut it short but I'm finally Done, YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry this took so long. I hate work. Anyway I think I have an idea of how to make this go faster but I'm gonna need a beta, someone to edit and look over my work early for me. I just know if I had someone to hound me everyday I could cut my time in half, about 2 weeks. Anyway if anyone's interested tell me in your review or just pm me or something. Thanks