The Rize and Fall of The Tamers

by NoirRenamon

The long awaited collaborated fanfic writted by 4 authors, NoirRenamon, True Glint, Delfim The Black Kitsune and Robert Donahue. The story of adventure and epicness that you had never read in your entire life so no summary as it might ruin or spoil the story. Enjoy Rater M for swearing and Sexual Content

2. Chapter 2

Sergey: What's up everyone? Sergey here and we have a new chapter.

Robert: Wait, where is Delfim?

Delfim enters with his nurse uniform dripping red.

Sergey/Robert/True Glint: AH! RUN HE IS GONNA KILL US!

Delfim: Would you shut the fuck up? This ain't blood! It's red colored water.

Robert: Why are you drenched in that?

Delfim: At University we were testing new models for nurse practice, which were these realistic mechanical dolls who would be filled with this stuff so that nurses could practice more life threatening scenarios with everything under control.

Sergey: So… you killed a doll.

Delfim: Fuck no! Everything was going fine until one of my colleges decided to test… something else on the dolls… and when we notice the doll just goes BOOM! This stuff drenches everyone.

True Glint: What was he testing that made it explode like that?

Delfim: … let's just say that… while realistic… this dolls were DEFINETLY not made… for sexual experimentation…

Sergey/Robert/True Glint: …

Delfim: Just get on with the chapter, I need to get a bath.

Delfim walks away, still dripping of red stuff.

Robert: That stuff really looks like blood.

Sergey: Well… on with the chapter.

Chapter 2 Awakening! The Strange New world.

"Ow!" whimpered Sergey as he regained his senses. He felt the sun glaring daggers at his eyes and something crumble beneath him. "Why do I feel like I have just gotten the beating of my life? I feel pain all over… wait a second… pain?"

Sergey quickly opened his eyes and got up. The place around them looked like a forest, the trees closest to them, however, looked dark and had no leaves. It looked burnt, and smelled like it too. "This can't be! The game doesn't allow the normal sense of smell… or pain… how… what is going on?" He looked to the ground where he was in and saw ashes. "What the…" He then heard a groan and saw…

"GUYS!" he rushed to the group he saw, though he noticed that it wasn't complete. In the group were: his netnavi, Rena, just getting up; Alex, still unconscious on the ground, was sleeping with a large dope smirk in his face; finally, Anahit was just waking up, with Knightmon fussing all over to see if she was fine.

"Serg, keep it quiet bro, my body needs sleep." Replied the sleepy Alex before realizing something. "Wait a second… the pillow just crumbled…" He opened his eyes and looked around. "WTF Where are we?"

"I don't know." Answered Sergey honestly. "I just woke up here and saw you guys. Do you know where the others are?"

"If I may…" said Knightmon as he helped Anahit to stand up. "I woke up before you did and was tending to my mistress but so far I've seen no one here."

"No one?" asked Rena. "Then where are they? And where are we?"

"And how did we get here?" asked Anahit looking around. "And why does my body hurt everywhere?"

"Hurt?" asked a confused Knightmon. "But that is impossible: to protect the users mental stability, the game had no form of transmitting pain to the user beyond that of emotional pain. The beginning versions did have such a flaw, but after a player went mad be being burned off by a Greymon, they disabled the pain transfer to the user."

"Wow, you know a lot, Knightmon." Praised Alex.

"To better help my mistress I set myself to learn as much of the game as I could." Said Knightmon with a proud tone. "It seems like it paid off too."

"Guys are you forgetting that yes we are feeling pain at this exact moment?" asked an exasperated Sergey.

"You are hurt?" asked Rena as she jumped over him. "Are you okay? Do you need anything? Maybe I should…"

"RENA, I am fine!" yelled Sergey. "But that is weird, I shouldn't feel pain, it is impossible!"

Knightmon then frowned. "Huh… Rena… do you feel… okay?"

Rena was about to answer when she stopped. "Actually… no I feel…"

"Weird?" asked Knightmon.

"Guys what's wrong? Are you okay?" asked a distressed Anahit.

"I don't know, my body feels all weird. It's unlike anything I have ever felt!" said Knightmon.

"Like our bodies are… touched by… something just touched me!" she jumped behind Sergey.

Sergey looked around, but only saw the wind passing through. "…wind… I just remembered that the digimon game doesn't have a wind animation. It has the sandstorms and all, but it was too difficult to program something as harmless as wind."

"This is wind?" asked Rena as she felt it again. "Eek, weird!"

"I have to admit I never felt anything like that!" said Knightmon. "It feels like a gentle invisible force just trying to caress you as it passes…"

"Dude, that was deep." Said Alex.

"Well, let's try to access the menu and get ourselves back at our farms. We can explore this place later." Said Sergey as he tried to summon the menu. "… oh no."

Anahit tried to but nothing popped up. "Mine doesn't work either!"

"That shouldn't happen! Could it be a failure in the server?" contemplated Knightmon.

"This is serious! If we can't summon the menus and we don't know where we are, what are we going to do?" asked Alex.

Before they could contemplate this, they heard a roar terrifyingly close to them. They turned and saw, coming from the green part of the forest, a tall digimon with blue futuristic armor, blue angel like wings and a lance coming from his right arm made him extremely dangerous.

"Hey! Its Dark!" said Sergey as he saw his other digimon "Man am I glad to see some familiar faces, come on guys if we have Dark with us then we have nothing to worry about!"

"Are you sure it's our Dark?" asked Anahit, though you could see even she didn't believe it. "Wait, what is that all over his body?"

The others look and saw that DarkDramon was covered in dark spiral like marks all over his body. But DarkDramon didn't gave them time to think as he flew towards them, his spear hand pointing towards them, intending to skewer them.

"WATCH OUT!" yelled Sergey as he and Rena hit the deck. Anahit was brought down by Knightmon and Alex jumped out of the way, missing the spear by a scratch… his pants didn't though, leaving him in an embarrassing position.

"… nice boxers dude." Commented Sergey, not able to help himself. The boxers wee grey filled with black hearts. On each side it had a bunny girl with a naughty look on her face.

Alex got bright red at this. "MY PANTS! THAT'S IT, THIS GUYS IS DEAD!" He turned to the DarkDramon and made his armor appear. He prepared to fight when he noticed something. "Wait a second, am I weaker or am I just hallucinating?"

"Not the time for that, Alex!" yelled Sergey.

"No wait, something is definitely wrong here." Said Alex as he looked at his own armor before raising his right arm where the armor had a little screen. He looked into it and curse. "SHIT, I am missing spirits here!"

"What?" asked an incredulous Anahit. "For real?"

"Yeah, I only have Lobomon, Ranamon and Zephyrmon. WTF? With this I am hardly Ultimate level!" As he yells that, DarkDramon charges towards him from behind.

"ALEX WATCH OUT!" yelled Anahit.

Rena was faster as she ran and brought Alex to the ground before he could be hit again. "Thanks. I owe you one." He then got up.

"Alright." Said Sergey as he grabbed his digivice. "Let's go Rena, Biomerge activate!"

Nothing happened, making even DarkDramon sweat drop.

"… I am starting to hate this day." Said Sergey.

DarkDramon roared as he tried to attack again only to receive a punch in the face courtesy of Alex.

"RUN, I will keep him busy!"

"Are you insane? He is a mega level. At least let me help!" said Knightmon.

"NO! They need you in case they meet another digimon. Don't worry, I won't die against this guy!" with the bravado put in speech, Alex launched himself to his opponent, grabbing his arms and trying to keep him still. "GO…NOW!"

"He is right, we can't fight DarkDramon and we would get in his way, we must leave!" said Rena.

"Grrr." Sergey hated admitting this, but they were right, so as they ran, he looked back and whispered "You better survive you asshole."

********Somewhere else********

"Hgh…" Delfim softly groaned as he got up, feeling worse for wear. He saw that he was in some kind of forest, laying on burned grass.

"Delfim, you alright?" asked Laurelene, clearly distressed.

"I am fine. How long have I been sleeping?" asked Delfim as he got up with a grunt.

"I have been awoke for the past fifteen minutes, you are the third to awake." Said Laurelene.

"Third?" asked Delfim as he looked around. He finally spotted a clearly freaking out Nurul with her partner still sleeping at her feet. Oscar was nearby, Gumdramon sleeping on his lap, they laid peacefully on the ground.

"No no no no NO!" yelled Nurul as she wrote furiously on her computer.

"Oh chill Nurul, what's wrong?" asked Delfim.

"What's wrong? I will tell you what's wrong! We are in the middle of who knows where, I just figured that we have no net, no way of communication or hacking, and that I can't open my menu! I don't know what is going on and IamfreakingoutcauseIalwayskn owthisstuffand…"

"Nurul. Nurul. NURUL!" Yelled Delfim as he grabbed her shoulders. "You are speaking too fast, and only making yourself more nervous! Take a deep breath and calm down! Okay do with me, breath in…" as he said that, both Delfim and Nurul breathed deeply. "Breath out…" and they exhale. "Breath in…" again they breathed deeply. "Breath out…" and they exhaled again. "Now calm down, it could be just a failure in the system, perhaps if we give it some time the server will correct this."

"But, but…"

"Keep calm." Said Delfim. "Trust me, the more anxious you get, the worst. Try to keep breathing in and out slowly. We don't know where we are, but if we get too nervous we will never find our way back."

Nurul keep breathing deeply, as she observed Delfim scanning his surroundings. "How can you be so calm about all this?"

"Me and Laurelene got ourselves in similar situations back when the game first became online. There were a lot of bugs and problems and I usually found them the worst way. You can't imagine the amount of time I would fall through the ground, get stuck in the same place, Laurelene here once turned green while we were in one of the testing fields. So we are used to this kind of stuff."

"But this isn't like any bug we have ever suffered, Delfim." Said Laurelene. "I actually feel weird here. And I have felt something touch me a couple of times already. Nurul said something about the wind."

Delfim scratched his head in thought. "Alright, we are in the middle of burned grass, I guessed caused by our landing if the soreness in my body means anything, there is wind, which is new since the digimon game has no wind animation… Nurul, any ideas?"

Nurul started thinking, now more calm. "Well, we can't access our menus, the net is non-existent which should be impossible in the game… could it be?"

"Ouch… my body hurts all over!" said Oscar as he woke up.

"Dude, you okay?" asked Delfim as he came over.

"Yeah, but my body hurts." Said Oscar. "Where are we?"

"Nurul was about to make a guess, which is the best we got so far. So?" asked Delfim.

"Hu hum. I think that there is the possibility that we are in the real Digital world." Said Nurul, her voice filled with awe.

"Okay, which one? Season 1, 3, 4?" asked Delfim, not getting why she was so excited.

"No season, I mean the REAL DIGITAL WORLD." Said Nurul.

"WOW, really?" asked Oscar, excited.

"Digimon world?" asked Gumdramon.

"I doubt it." Said Delfim, making everyone turn to him. "I mean… this seems like those times when me and Laurelene were trapped in an unfinished level in the beginning of the game. I was stuck on the level for 3 days. So It might be a new level and they just put us there."

"But if it was a new level or something like that, they would ask volunteers! Not force the people in it with a black hole! Especially considering the situation we were in!" argued Nurul.

"I don't know, but I really don't want to think that this is the real digimon world." Admitted Delfim.

"Well, how about a test then!" said Oscar. "If this is a new level, we shouldn't feel pain, right?"

"What are you playing at?" asked Delfim, suspicious.

"Gumdramon, bite my finger!" said Oscar.

"Oscar, that ain't a good…" started Delfim only to be interrupted by a loud "YEOWCH!" "Idea…"

"Owowowowow!" yelled Oscar as he showed his bleeding finger. "It hurts, fuck it hurts!"

"Great, you know we knew about the pain the moment we woke right?" asked Laurelene sarcastically. "I mean, it's not like we all awoke sore or anything."

"I still don't want to think this is the real digimon world." Stubbornly admitted Delfim.

"Why not?" asked Oscar, annoyed at Delfim's negation.

"Because if it is… IF… then we won't be able to go back home, so what do we do when our bodies start wasting away and we can't just log off? What then?" asked Delfim.

Nurul and Oscar were shocked. They hadn't thought of that. They were so used to be able to log on and off when they wanted, that now not being able to spread a sense of fear in them.

Delfim shook his head. "Come on, we better find someplace safe. Wherever this really is, it could be dangerous. But which way do we go now?"

"How about we just go this way and see what we find out?" asked Oscar, pointing towards his right.

"Fair enough." Said Delfim as he and the others started following Oscar, Nurul twisting branches as she did, before kicking her partner awake.

"OW!" yelled Dra-chan. "That hurts!"

"Come on, we got to go. I'll explain on the way." Said Nurul.

They walked for a while, in complete silence, until Nurul said "Guys stop, we are walking in circles."

"How do you know?" asked Oscar.

She pointed to a twisted branch in front of Oscar. "I did that, in case we started walking on circles… which we did."

"Damn!" said Delfim. "Alright, let's go this way then." He said pointing towards another direction.

They walked again in silence until Delfim cursed. "Over there, the same branch, we are truly walking on circles."

"But how, we were walking in a straight line all the time!" said Oscar.

"This really feels like a new level." Said Delfim. "One of those where you have to find the only way which is the exit, or you fall in a loop. I hate those."

"Perhaps we are the ones that are disoriented." Offered Nurul. "We need something to follow, otherwise we won't get out of here."

Laurelene then went stiff. "How about this, there is a mass amount of digimons that way." She then pointed towards it's general direction.

"Great, let's go." Said Delfim.

"Wait what? We are going to where there are more digimon? Are you nuts?" asked Oscar.

"It probably is a city." Said Nurul. "We could get help there."

"But…"

"Don't worry, we will keep you safe." Said Gumdramon.

Oscar nodded. "Fine, let's go."

******In yet another place********

"Where are we?" asked Nina, looking around scared out of her mind. "How do we go back?"

"What do we do now?" asked Pyromon.

"We are dead." Whined Eralp. "We are lost, alone, there is no one around, we can't use our menus, we are so dead! Where is Omnimon when I need him?"

"Forget Omnimon! We are the ones in trouble not him!" yelled Veemon.

Robert rubbed the bridge of his nose. When the group awoke, they were in a similar position as the other groups and while things seemed weird it was all fine and manageable. That is, until Nina noticed she couldn't open her menu, following by Eralp, both of them soon realizing that they were lost followed by Eralp whining about the loss of his knights and Nina to simply fall into a spiral of unanswered questions.

"Guys, calm down, would you? Getting nervous won't help!" tried Robert.

"Calm? CALM? Look around you! We are in the middle of nowhere, left to our own demise, no food, no water, no cell phone, no nothing! We won't survive!" yelled Eralp.

"How will we live?" asked Nina, not even turning to them and with a ghastly expression on her face. "Where will we get food?"

"Look at Nina, she has lost it! How can we be calm?" continued Eralp.

"But guys…" tried Robert, with no success.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU WHINY BRATS!" yelled the authoritarian voice of Kyre, her fur standing up in rage.

Everyone jumped at Kyre's yell, not expecting that from her. When she noticed that they had stopped panicking, she said "Hu-hum… While yes we are lost, getting nervous will not help us at all."

Eralp nodded. "Okay, you are right."

"Say what?" asked an incredulous Robert. "But I said the same thing!"

"But…" this was Nina, trembling a bit. "She scares us…" she said no more, knowing that this was answer enough.

Robert sighed. "Okay let's think. We don't know where we are, but I bet that if we fell here, the others shouldn't be far. Let's try to regroup first, then we will have a better chance at getting out of here… or in the worst case scenario, help us survive here."

The two tamers nodded, now visibly calmer. Kyre and the other digimons were looking around, the new feelings being something that made them curious. Robert saw Kyre touching her own fur and decided to ask "What's wrong?"

Kyre turned to him and said "We have some new… senses? Yeah, we feel new things."

"Really? Like what?" asked Robert.

"Well, I am not entirely sure, but for some reason my skin is expelling liquid." Said Kyre. "And it is bothering me."

Robert got curious and took a closer look. "…Kyre… you are sweating!"

"Say what?" asked a surprised Eralp who came to see.

"What is this sweating?" asked Kyre, confused as to what all the commotion was about.

"Kyre, sweating is something Humans do when their body heat gets too high. It is a way to cool the skin. I just didn't thought digimons could sweat at all!" explained Robert as he kept analyzing her.

"And they shouldn't. Heat in the digimon game is almost always at the same level even in volcano maps. We only feel the heat on digimons' fire attacks, and even then it is not a unbearable heat because we don't feel pain." Said Eralp.

"Guys did you forget we are feeling pain, guys?" asked Nina.

As Robert was about to answer, something came falling down the skies in the middle of the clearing. When they turned to look at just what it was, they were shocked to find a bloody Alex on the floor. His armor almost broken showing spider-web-like cracks in it, from which blood poured. He was unconscious, though you could hear his grunts of pain.

"Alex!" yelled Robert as he came closer, followed by the others. "What happened to him?"

"Maybe that?" answered Eralp as he pointed to the incoming figure of DarkDramon, who roared at the sight of more prey.

"Fuck! Where is Sergey when we need him?" asked Robert as he saw the beast.

"Screw that, we got to do something now!" yelled Eralp.

"How about DODGE!" yelled Nina as the group all jumped away from the roaring DarkDramon. Kyre jumped behind DarkDramon and yelling "Frozen Paw!" she hit him in the back, only succeeding in making the digimon turn to her.

"Kyre, now is not the time to get the enemy angry!" yelled Robert. "I need a card…" he then started searching his pockets for his cards. "… oh no…"

"HEY, WHERE ARE MY CARDS?" yelled Eralp, now frightened.

"I can't find mine either!" yelled Nina, now totally freaked out.

Meanwhile, the three digimons tried to attack DarkDramon and keep him busy until their tamers could tell them what to do: Kyre would punch him with Frozen Paw, Veemon would head-butt his stomach and Pyromon would bite his tail. DarkDramon was getting really impatient so with a mighty roar, he fired dark shots at high speed which exploded in the middle of the group.

"HAA!" yelled the group as they were throw back by the attack. Robert seethed. "That was the Dark Roar. Man this is getting tough. Are you guys alright?"

"No…" whined Veemon as he reverted to Demi-Veemon. "It hurts…"

"Veemon!" yelled Eralp as he ran towards him.

Pyromon was equally hurt, but managed to stay in its rookie form, though it was clearly knocked out. Kyre grunted as she pushed herself upwards, being the one that resisted the attack better because she jumped back when the attack came. She still was very hurt, as her pained expression showed.

DarkDramon roared as he saw Kyre get up and flew towards her. Robert's eyes widened in fear as he saw things happen in slow motion. "KYRE, WATCH OUT!"

Kyre turned only to see the lance coming to her face. She closed her eyes, waiting for the pain that would come. It didn't however and when she opened her eyes she stiffened. In front of her right eye, the lance stood, just a miserable inch away.

DarkDramon turned his head, as if he heard something. He then growled and flew away, leaving a scared group behind. Robert, as soon as DarkDramon was away, rushed to Kyre and engulfed her in a hug. "Are you okay? Are you hurt? Kyre?" He asked in a frantic as he looked over Kyre.

"Robert Robert ROBERT!" yelled Kyre. "I am fine! Just a bit sore from the fight. Go tend to the others, I just… need to catch my breath. And you going nuts on me doesn't help."

Robert couldn't keep himself calm though. He was far too freaked out. But he knew that if she didn't ask for help, she wouldn't accept any help offered. So nodding slowly he said "Okay but you stay here, I will be back in a minute."

Kyre nodded and Robert went to the others. "How are they?"

"He will live." Said Eralp. "Just need some sleep and he will be back in Veemon soon."

"Hard to say, Pyromon seems to be fine but with her knocked out it is hard to say." Said Nina near tears. "I just… I froze… I never did that…"

"This was frightening real." Said Eralp. "In the game we never have to face something like this. We normally are the ones with the super powerful digimons facing enemies that can hardly scratch them. This was… frightening."

Robert nodded. "And we were lucky this time to."

"Yeah, the freak went away." Said Eralp with relief on his voice.

"Not just that." Said Robert. "I have faced Sergey sometimes as training and I can say that a DarkDramon can be a force to be feared. DarkDramon attacks are deadly, and this one did just one attack the entire fight. More than that, this one used a berserker style of fighting while Sergey's Dark sticks with lancer style. Berserker is slower, so we were lucky, it could have been much worse. But it's weird, that DarkDramon's lancer reminded me of a modified lancer that Sergey made for dark."

Nina trembled at hearing that. "Worse? It could have… been worse?" She was near tears at this point.

At that point, they heard a groan. "Alex!" yelled the three tamers as they went to him. He was still badly wounded, but the bleeding had stopped. "How is he healing so fast?" asked a surprised Nina.

"The armor, it increases his healing rate." Said Robert. "Though normally it is near instantaneous, so it is weird that he is not completely healed yet."

"So what do we do now?" asked Nina.

"What do you think? We find shelter! One digimon attack is enough." Said Eralp.

"I agree." Said Robert. "But we have a problem: we each have to take care of our own partner, so who is going to take Alex?"

"You are." Answered Kyre from behind him, making the teens jump in fright. "I am perfectly capable of walking by myself, so you don't have to carry me. You can take Alex."

Grumbling about girls that never listen, Robert grabbed Alex and said "Alright, anyone wants to lead the way?"

*******With Group 1********

Sergey, Rena, Anahit and Knightmon had been running for what felt like hours. When they were finally satisfied that DarkDramon wasn't after them, they stopped to catch their breath. Sergey tightened his fists in frustration.

"Shit, I can't believe we left him behind." Grumbled Sergey.

"It couldn't be helped. We stood no chance against DarkDramon." Said Rena.

"While I hate to admit my shortcomings, Rena is right." Said Knightmon. "We must keep going and hope that Alex will be able to survive the match."

Sergey seethed, but understood their point. "Fine, so where do we go now?"

"How about that cave over there?" asked Anahit, pointing to an inconspicuous cave nearby. "We could rest there for the night."

"I don't know." Said Rena. "We don't know if the cave is inhabited already."

"Don't be nervous, Rena." Said Anahit. "Knightmon is an Ultimate. He will protect us if something is there." And with that, she started walking towards the cave, Knightmon right behind her.

"Yeah, except if that thing is that DarkDramon again." Grumbled Rena, not entirely convinced.

"Come one, Rena, it is our best shot." Said Sergey as he followed Anahit. Rena sighed before following.

The cave was only big enough so the four of them could stand there, and only large enough for the four. "Well, better than staying outside." Admitted Rena. "Sergey, let's go."

"What, go where?" asked Sergey.

"Outside to gather some wood. We will need to make a fire here." Said Rena as she started walking. Sergey nodded as he followed her.

Anahit just sat down. "I guess we hold the fort then."

"Indeed mistress." Replied Knightmon.

*******Group 2********

Delfim, Nurul and Oscar kept following their partners as they directed them towards where they felt the digimon presences. Moving through the forest revealed to be, in itself, somewhat troublesome. Oscar and Nurul were definitely not used to forests and Delfim had to sigh at the amount of times Oscar was scratched by a nettles and Nurul's hair got stuck in a branch.

"I hate forests." Said Nurul, her hair filled with leaves.

"Ditto." Said Oscar, trying to resist the itch in his legs.

"Come on guys, we are almost there." Assured Delfim. "And Oscar, try not to scratch yourself, you will make it worse."

"But it is so itchy!" whined Oscar.

"How come you are fine?" asked a surprised Nurul.

"Near my grandma's village, there is a forest. I can tell you the first time I went there, it was just like what you two are going through now, except I was five. So I learned a few things." As Delfim said that, he grabbed a branch from the ground and started whipping the plants in their front, clearing the path as they went. "There, now all you have to look out for are branches."

The other two nodded as they followed, grateful that at least one of them knew his way around the place. They finally saw it. The place before them was the perfect image of fortified village, with wooden fences, stone houses with hay ceilings, some wooden watch tours with no roof and a few guards at the exits. The thing that surprised the group was…

"Do you see any humans?" asked Delfim. "Cause I see none."

"Me neither!" said Oscar.

"But that means… this is a digimon village." Said Nurul.

"And they might not like visitors." Concluded Delfim. "Come on, let's get away from here before they find us."

"Too late for that Delfim." Said Laurelene as she looked around. "They surrounded us."

"So you realized that." Said a voice from the forest surrounding them.

Delfim face palmed. "Idiot. Rule number one when in forests: Keep away from tall grass, you never know what lies in there."

A group of eight Centarumons came out of their hiding place, grinning at the group as they surrounded them. "Well well well guys, look what we found here! Humans."

"It has been a long time since we had humans in our village. The last ones weren't very… entertaining…" said one of them as he looked at them with glee.

One of them got a bit too close to Laurelene for Delfim's comfort, which only got worse when he tried to smack her ass. Delfim rushed and punched him square in the face yelling "Stay away from her, you horse fucker!"

The Centarumons took a few steps back, shocked. Then he would smirk. "I like this one, he has spunk. Let's take them to the leader, he will find them even more enjoyable."

"You want enjoyment?" asked Delfim as he was about to walk to that Centarumon before he was grabbed by Laurelene and Oscar. "I will show you enjoyment: my foot up your ass!"

"Delfim, don't make this worse than it already is!" said Laurelene. "They are too many for us."

"Let me at them, I will kill those fuckers myself!" yelled Delfim.

"Delfim, no let's just do as they say… for now." Said Laurelene.

"But… fine, you win." Said Delfim as he stopped fighting. "But one more like that, and I will make a mountain with their corpses."

The Centarumons then flanked them and walked them towards the village. The digimons around them would look at them curiously, something that made the group even more antsy. Soon they arrived at the wooden door of the biggest house, which opened to reveal a Viking hall where a large red armored digimon stood, sitting on a throne.

"Lord Butenmon. We have found these humans outside our village." Replied the smug Centarumon.

At the mention of humans, Butenmon's eyes widened as he stood up. He had an impressive figure, standing tall and prideful in his red armor, his metallic wings only adding to the figure. His gigantic sword rested in his hand, ready to be drawn.

"So they have finally arrived." Said Butenmon in a low but powerful voice. "The prophesized ones have arrived."

"Prophesized?" asked Nurul.

"You were expecting us?" asked a surprised Oscar.

"But of course." Said Butenmon. "We have been expecting your arrival for far too long."

"I call bull on this one." Said Delfim. "Your Henchmen didn't seem to be expecting prophetic ones, more like they were expecting have fun with us."

"Delfim!" hissed Laurelene.

Butenmon seemed surprised. "Fun with you? What could have given you that idea?"

"Oh I don't know, how about the fact that one of your soldiers tried to grope my partner, ha?" asked Delfim.

Butenmon's eyes hardened before he turned to one of the Centarumon. "I thought we had discussed this already…"

"Come on, it was just a joke…"

"SILENCE!" yelled Butenmon. "You think it is a joke? Just because you found out that your girlfriend has been cheating on you doesn't mean you can go around acting like a horn dog. Tonight, you will do triple shift on the lower caves."

"WHAT? Come on, Lord Butenmon don't do this! That place reeks with Nunemon and Sukamon!" pleaded the Centarumon.

"Good, perhaps then you may lose some of that sex drive of yours." Said Butenmon, not the least concerned about the Centarumon. "Now leave my sight. You have caused enough trouble as it is."

The Centarumon grumbled but left the place. Butenmon then turned to the tamers. "I apologize for all this. That Centarumon is going through some… private problems and… well, I guess that is no excuse, but I still ask for your forgiveness."

Delfim didn't seem to believe the guy, but Nurul and Oscar did, because they were visibly calmer. "Thank you Lord Butenmon."

"Now tell me, is it only the three of you?" asked a concerned Butenmon. "The prophesy doesn't specify, though since it talked about a group, I assumed it would be more numerous."

"We believe our friends may be around." Said Nurul. "We were separated before we arrived, but we are confident they can't be far."

"Why don't you go ahead and tell him our weaknesses while you are at it?" said Delfim, notoriously pissed.

Butenmon sighed. "I understand your unwillingness to accept my apology, but if your friends are out there, they are in grave danger. CENTARUMON!" Many Centarumons appeared. "Spread out and find the other humans. We need all of them here."

"Yes Lord Butenmon." Yelled the Centarumons as they left.

"Now that that is taken care of, would you like anything to eat? You guys look famished." Offered Butenmon.

Nurul, Oscar and their partners smiled. Laurelene did to, though she had to sigh when she saw Delfim still frowning.

******With Group 3******

"Damn, this forest is huge." Complained Eralp. "At this rate, we will never get out."

Robert had to agree. They had been walking for what seemed like hours and they had yet to find a shelter. It was already sunset, and both Eralp and Nina were exhausted and Robert wasn't much better, having to carry Alex on his back. This worried Robert because they were in no shape to fight. "I wish there was a sign or a signal we could follow. Just walking aimlessly is not doing us any good."

Kyre looked up and smiled. "Did someone just asked for a signal? Cause I see something over there." She then pointed towards a trail of smoke raising towards the sky.

"Do you think the forest is on fire?" asked a nervous Nina. "First a DarkDramon, now a forest fire? Can we be any more unlucky?"

Eralp looked at the smoke attentively. "That ain't no forest fire. That is a camp fire. There is people over there!" with that, he sprinted towards that direction, his tiredness forgotten and almost making Demi-Veemon, who was resting in his hands, fall.

"Eralp wait!" yelled Nina. "It could be a trap!" She then rushed after him.

"GUYS! Don't forget me here! I still am carrying Alex you know?" yelled an angry Robert before he felt someone supporting his shoulder. "What?"

"Come on, I will give you a hand and we will reach there faster." Said Kyre.

Robert smiled. "Thanks." He then let her help him and both walked after the others, still at a sedated pace.

Meanwhile, in the place where the fire was coming from, Sergey and Anahit were tending to the fire while Rena and Knightmon stood guard. They had just started to get cozy when Rena got tense.

"What is it, Rena?" asked Sergey.

"I heard someone yell." Said Rena.

"Hey!"

"I heard that." Said Knightmon.

"Me too!" said Anahit.

"Hey!"

"I know that voice." Said Sergey. "It's Eralp! ERALP, OVER HERE!"

Eralp came running from the forest and immediately he engulfed the closest person, who was Anahit, in a bone crushing hug. "God it is good to see you guys."

"You okay Eralp?" asked Sergey before he saw Demi-Veemon, who had fell from his partner's hands. "And what happened with Veemon?"

"Are you alone?" asked Knightmon.

"GUYS!" yelled Nina as she too rushed in and hugged Sergey, softly crying into his chest.

"Wow Nina calm down!" said Sergey, surprised at her. Especially since he felt something being crushed between the two of them: Pyromon. "Nina, you are crushing Pyromon!"

She immediately let go of Sergey to ten to her poor digimon. It was then that Robert appeared, carrying Alex. The moment he appeared, Anahit yelled in panic as she saw Alex.

"Oh no Alex!" she yelled as she rushed to Robert, checking if he was okay. "What did that DarkDramon do to you."

"Oh gee, thanks for asking how I am, I appreciate it." Replied Robert sarcastically, earning a chuckle from Kyre. "So I take you met DarkDramon too, huh?"

"Yeah, Alex stood back and fought it, saying he would give us some time." Said Sergey before he gritted his teeth. "Damn! I knew we should have helped him!"

Robert sighed. "What is done is done. Fortunately we have found each other. Now all we have to do is find Delfim, Oscar and Nurul."

"Yeah, at least that is good." Said Sergey. "So do you know where we are, or why our menus don't work?"

"Wish I had an answer." Admitted Robert. "But with the discovering of new feelings from our digimons, the battle of DarkDramon and trying to find shelter, we didn't have a chance of finding out."

Sergey nodded. "Come on, let's rest here for the night. We can find the others in the morning."

"I hope they are alright." Said Eralp.

They were about to sit down when they heard the sound of hooves rapidly hitting the ground, coming closer. Soon they saw five Centarumons appearing from the forest.

"Looks like these are the ones." Said one of the Centarumon.

"Yeah, looks like it." Replied another.

Knightmon, being the strongest and in the best shape to fight, took a few steps forward before pointing his sword towards his opponent. "Whoever you are, you better step away. I am more than capable of fighting the lot of you."

"Wait, we mean no harm." Said the first Centarumon. "We were sent to search for you by Lord Butenmon."

"Who?" asked Anahit confused. The others had no clue either.

"Let's just say the guy that found your friends." Said the second Centarumon.

"Our friends?" asked Knightmon, angry. "What have you lot done to them?"

"We have taken them into the village and they are now safe with Lord Butenmon. They asked us to find you and find you we did. Now we must bring you to them." said the first Centarumon.

"How do we know this isn't a bluff?" asked Rena. "Prove it that you know our friends."

The Centarumons looked at each other before the first coughed. "Well, there are three humans, two boys, one girls, and the digimons are a BlackRenamon, a Gumdramon, and a strange digimon we have never seen before."

"Not to mention that one of the humans have a fierce right hook, if you know what I mean." At this the Centarumons laughed at the memory.

"That sounds like them." said Kyre.

"Especially the fierce right hook. We know only of only two people who would willingly hit a digimon with their bare fists, and one of them is still with us." Joked Robert.

"Hahaha, very funny Robert." Said Sergey. "Fine, take us to them."

The Centarumons nodded before they flanked the group and, just like before, escorted them to the village.

When they arrived to the village, and to Butenmon's house, they suddenly found themselves looking at a large table where Butenmon sat with Nurul, Oscar, Gumdramon, Dra-chan and Laurelene, eating and laughing at different stories told in the group. Delfim stood nearby, still not trusting Butenmon. As soon as he saw Alex, however, he rushed to him and started checking him all over.

"Damn!" said Delfim as he passed his hands over Alex's members and torso, feeling the wounded parts. "Okay his left arm is definitely broken, I will need to make some ligaments, he has at least one cracked rib, so the torso will need some ligaments to. The rest are bruises and scratches, and he appears to have a contusion in his head. What the hell happened to him?"

"Wow, you found all that from just feeling him all over?" asked Eralp, impressed.

It was then that Nurul and Oscar noticed the new arrivals. "GUYS!" yelled Nurul as she rushed and engulfed Sergey and Robert in a hug, Oscar hugging Anahit and Nina. "You are alright!"

"Not all of them!" said Delfim, still focused on Alex. "I need to take off his armor, and fast. His body needs ligaments and I'm really worried about head injury."

"Why, he stopped bleeding?" asked Oscar, confused.

"If it is a light head trauma, than there is no reason for worry. But if it is a traumatic brain injury, it could be very bad, even lethal. And the fact that he stopped bleeding, doesn't mean he is safe." Said Delfim, completely serious. "We need a medic, and equipment, and ligaments, or at least some form of cloth!"

Butenmon, who heard all that, started yelling "PERSIAMON!" Soon a feline woman entered the room. "Please tend to our guest, and make sure he survives!"

She rushed to where Delfim was positioning Alex, making sure to put him in the position that would make the less damage. She started healing the boy but then sighed. "This is not good."

"Is it a traumatic brain injury?" asked Delfim. "Is it severe?"

"That is not the problem here." Said Persiamon. "The armor is blocking us. I am afraid that unless we can get rid of the armor, we will not be able to do anything."

"Get rid of the armor?" asked Delfim incredulously. "Do you know how much he had to work for this armor? Is there no other way?"

"I am afraid not. We should wake him up and ask him…"

"NO!" yelled Delfim. "Until he is healed, getting him awake is a bad idea. He tends to never sit down on the same place for long, it will be impossible to help him with him awake. If you have a plan to take the armor, I suggest you do it now."

"Well, I have one, but you guys had to agree." Said Persiamon, drawing the attention of everybody. "Tell me, is this armor made of digimon spirits?"

Sergey nodded. "Yeah, though he only had three when we arrived here, I don't know why."

"Then all we have to do is force one of this spirits out and make it form into a true digimon and use the remaining two spirits to create a digivice. This would make the armor lose all kind of power it had, allowing us to take it off and heal him properly."

"I am in." said Delfim promptly, startling everyone. "The safety of the patient, when this one can't give his consent, is the number one priority. If this is the only way to help, let's do this. Meanwhile, could somebody get me some cloth?"

While some digimons went to get cloth, Persiamon started focusing on the armor, drawing the three spirits out: Ranamon, Zephyrmon and Lobomon.

"So which one of these is the one that is coming out?" asked Delfim.

"That depends on the digimon that is more compatible with him." Said Persiamon. "For now, could you keep him still? The removal of the spirits will be painful for him, and I am afraid he might try something, even unconscious."

Delfim nodded before he firmly grabbed Alex. Persiamon chanted a few times before one of the spirits started to rise from its place. Everyone was shocked at which digimon came out, but Delfim and Persiamon kept focusing on the task, especially when Alex started trashing even under Delfim's grip.

Persiamon quickly combined the other two spirits, forming a digivice. As she did, the armor lost its color and Delfim easily peeled it off of Alex. Just at that moment, the other digimons brought the cloth, which Delfim expertly cut, with his teeth, into strips. He then started bandaging Alex's right arm, torso and head, his hands moving swiftly and restlessly without missing a beat.

"Man, that is so awesome!" said Eralp with awe.

"Delfim took it seriously to become a nurse." Said Laurelene. "He asked to practice applying ligaments to me and the others. Not that we were injured, but he needed it and it wasn't that bad. He gained a lot of practice on that."

"Guess some guys are really serious about what they want." Said Robert as he continued to observe Delfim work.

When Delfim was done, he breathed in relief. "He should be fine, but we have to be careful tomorrow, some traumas don't have effects until much later."

"… is that my new partner?" asked the new digimon.

"Yes, but you will have to wait for tomorrow to meet him." Said Delfim in a condescending tone. "I will keep an eye on him. The rest of you should take a rest."

"An excellent idea." Said Butenmon. "I was hoping to talk to you about something, but after all you passed today, you deserve the rest. Persiamon, please take them to their respective rooms."

Persiamon nodded before she guided them to the different rooms.

*******That night*******

Oscar lay awake in his bed, thinking about all that happened. He was still shocked. One moment they were fighting for their lives, the next well… they were fighting for their lives, but on a totally different level.

What stuck to him the most was how dependent he was. Sure he wasn't the strongest of Last Shadows, but he was no pushover. Yet today he was helpless if it wasn't for Nurul and Delfim.

Thinking about Delfim made him remember how he acted in the forest and the way he bandaged Alex. 'He is efficient and capable of living on his own.' Then he remembered Nurul, how she acted in the game and how she still was the brains of the group. 'Compared to these two, I am useless.'

"Are you awake too?"

Oscar turned to see Eralp in the other bed, still awake. "You can't sleep either?"

Eralp shook his head. "Too much stuff going through my head, you know." Said Eralp. "Today, I was a mess. I could hardly get a grip on myself and I realized just how stupid I was being. Robert didn't freak out until Kyre was in danger, and even then he was able to reign his worry. Man I am pathetic."

"Not as much as me." Said Oscar. "Delfim kept helping me all day, keeping us calm, helping us travel through the forest. Man I feel so…"

"Weak…" Eralp.

"Pathetic…" Oscar.

"Well, let's try to change." Said Eralp. "From now on, we will try to be helpful! If these guys can do it, so can we!"

Oscar looked at Eralp and nodded. "Yeah, we can be just as good as them!"

"Alright, then it's a promise!"

The two boys smiled to one another, vowing to make it happen.

******Next day******

"Hugh, turn of the light, would you?" asked Alex as he woke up, moving his right arm to cover his eyes.

"That is the sun, Alex, you can't turn it off."

Alex eyes went wide as he looked at the voice that talked with him. "Delfim? Is that you?"

Delfim looked tired but managed to smile. He had dark marks under his eyes from lack of sleep but didn't seem to be bothered by it. "Hey Alex. You were so lucky yesterday. With all the injuries you almost died."

Alex then saw the bandages. Noticing the lack of armor, he turned to Delfim and "Where is my armor."

"Over there, though it is useless now." Said Delfim. "Your armor was preventing us from healing you, so in order to save you, we had to take off the armor."

Alex's eyes went wide. "How did you do that?"

"We had to take one of the spirits of the armor and make it into a real digimon, then bind said digimon to you by uniting the other two spirits and creating a digivice out of it." Explained Delfim.

"Which digimon?" asked Alex.

"According to Persiamon, the one that is more compatible with you." Said Delfim as he moved towards the door.

"So it is Lobomon, right? Well, it is not so bad."

Delfim said nothing as he opened the door and said to someone outside "He is awake now, call me if there is any problem, I need to sleep for a few minutes." And with that, Delfim walked away.

Alex looked at the door, expecting the tall and imposing figure of Lobomon to enter is room. What enter him made him freeze in shock.

"Hi, you must be my new partner. I am Ranamon, what is your name?"

Alex stood there, silent for a few moments before he simply fainted.

"OH NO! NURSE-SAN, MY TAMER JUST FAINTED!" yelled Ranamon concerned for her new partner.

In the hall, Delfim let a smile grace his lips. "Staying up all night was worth it just to hear this." He then reentered the room.

XXX

Author Notes:

Sergey: And that is it for chapter 2.

Robert: Next chapter, the truth of the prophecy and what were those dark marks on Darkdramon.

True Glint: Stay tuned for next episode everyone, cause…

The door bell ringed.

Delfim, from upstairs: It's for me, could you open the door?

Sergey went to open the door, only to meet face to face with an horrific sight: dressed in white coat covered with red… something, wearing a visor mask, plastic gloves and a chainsaw buzzing in it's hands.

Sergey/Robert/True Glint: AHHH!

They run away. Delfim comes down, now redressed.

Delfim: What is their problem?

He then looks at the door and waves with a smile.

Delfim: Hey Joana, come in! Wait, why are you dressed like that?

Joana: After the incident at school, I decided to make use of the coat and put the mask and the chainsaw to freak people out. So are we still in to play Mortal Kombat?

Delfim: Sure, let me just say my goodbye to the readers. Alright bros, don't forget to review this chapter, here comes the brofist.*Brofist* Bye!