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Taichi

Davis:

To say that Tai is devastated is probably the understatement of the year. I'm truly shocked to see him like that. He's totally paled and doesn't even move. He's sitting on the ground and stares in the fire and that for almost five hours! Nobody dares to even ask him what we should do next because nobody knows how he probably would react. I always thought that he would be crying or something when his little sister gets captured, or even show a slight of emotion, but not that. His eyes are totally emotionless and he's not even talking to Sora, and that means something. T.K is after a really long talk with Matt, finally asleep. The rest of us just sit around the fire with our digimon partner next to us. Matt on the left side of Tai and Sora on his right, both look like they're expecting that Tai breaks down any minute. Agumon sits on Tai's lab. I'm sure he's heavy but Tai looks like he would be totally lost when Agumon wouldn't be near him, and Agumon knows that. I for my part am sitting on the opposite of Tai, looking for some sight of life in his eyes, unfortunately I can't find anything. It's like someone took the life out of him when they took Kari with them. Of course, I'm not really happy that Kari got captured, of course not; I loved her...and still do. So there's nothing more important for me than get her back, but I'm not moving without Tai on my side. It's his sister and I'm sure there's nothing he would more appreciate than rip Astamon in million parts of data.

"What are we're going to do now Tai?" T.K who obviously woke up asks and sits next to me, his glance at Tai, who doesn't even bother to look at him. We all turn to look at Tai but he doesn't react, what causes T.K to get really angry.

"I can't believe you! She's your sister and you're sitting here like there's nothing left of you but unfortunately there is so snap out and let's figure out a plan to rescue her. And I repeat it again; she is your SISTER!" T.K shouts angrily at Tai what causes him to turn his glance to T.K., T.K immediately shuts up and whispers an apology. I can truly understand why T.K reacts like this. Tai's gaze showed, just for a second, all the pain he's feeling right now and I finally understand why he's acting like this. Luckily Izzy makes the right step for everyone.

"Okay, let's figure out a plan to rescue her" He starts and opens a map of the castle where Piedmon is hiding right now and we start to figure out the best possibility to break in the castle and search for Kari, everyone except of Tai of course, he's still staring in the flame and holds Agumon even tighter than before,what causes Agumon to look at Tai with a really worried look in his eyes.

~a while later~

Tai suddenly jumps on his feet and walks away, just to come back after a few minutes, clothes changed. He doesn't look so emotionless like a couple of minutes before, no he looks pissed, really pissed. I never saw him so angry and the look in his face is frizzing my blood. Everyone turns to look at our leader, a few with concern in their eyes and the others a little frightened because they obviously never saw Tai so pissed off before.

"What are you staring like that? Come on, leave everything here. We're leaving." Tai says with a totally changed voice.

"But Tai, we don't even have a plan." Cody says slowly, obviously really awed.

"Didn't you notice that our plans never really work? We plan something, arrive and our plan is crashed. I'm tired of this and like T.K said before, she's my sister and I'm going. With or without you is your choice." And with that he turns to Agumon who just nods and digivolves to WarGreymon.

"Tai wait! I'm coming with you!" I shout, of course I'm going, its Kari we're talking about. Tai just smiles weakly at me and climbs on WarGreymon's back. I turn to look at Veemon but notice that he already digivolved to Magnamon.

"Do you really think we let you go without us?" Sora asks, with anger in her voice, towards Tai. He turns and looks right towards her and she just shots him an angry glare while she's climbing on Garudamon's back.

"Wait. What about the Crystal? We should be sure that we can beat our enemy before we reach for his castle." Ken says.

He's right, how could we forget that? We don't even have a chance to rescue Kari when we can't handle the enemies that are waiting there. I don't even want to know who Piedmon really brought back to life.

Everyone turns to look at Tai who jumped of WarGreymon's back and is now standing there, a little lost without his partner in his grip. He lowers his glance to the ground.

"I think I forgot that one..." He whispers. And then, something I never really thought would happen, Matt walks over to Tai and embraces him. The others are obviously as shocked as me. I know that they are best friends but I never really saw them to show how much they care for each other. Matt gives Izzy a look what causes him to take the attention of everyone.

"Okay, a few of us go and get the Crystal while the other ones go and keep Piedmon and his minions busy. Okay?" Izzy says. Everyone nods, agreeing with that idea.

"And who is going to do what? And what about Kari?" Yolei asks.

"Matt, Davis and I are going to keep Piedmon and the others busy. The rest goes and gets this Crystal. Then you met us by Piedmon's castle. As soon as everyone is together and our digimon on their highest level we're taking care of Kari." Tai orders, that's probably the first time I hear him order something. He doesn't even bother to notice Sora's angry glance when he said who's going to do what.

"Tai, I think I should- "Sora starts but Tai cuts her off.

"No you shouldn't!" he snaps at her and she can't do anything but stare at him, completely shocked. Like everyone else around. I don't see Tai often snap to anybody but Sora?! Wow, that's new. Tai obviously realizes what he just did because he looks as shocked as Sora.

"Sor, I'm sorry I –"He starts but this time it's Sora's turn to cut him off.

"No you're right. I really shouldn't. You're worried enough." She says and takes his hand. I can't help but feel happy for them. But there's nothing officially so I keep my mouth shut and don't say something like. I-saw-how-you-two-made-out-a-couple-of-days-ago.

"Okay, it's settled. Let's go we don't know how much time we have." Mimi says and climbs on Birdramon's back with Sora, Yolei, Cody and Ken. Joey and Izzy climb on Kabuterimon's back. Matt climbs on MetalGarurumon's back while WarGreymon embraces Tai from behind like Magnamon does with me.

Sora:

I know I shouldn't ask Tai to stay, because he's worried enough and it wouldn't really help when I would be on the battlefield. He would worry too much on my safety, but I just wanted to help him. He isn't thinking straight, all his thoughts are about Kari, so I'm sure his own safety is nothing worth for him right now, and that makes me worried.

I turn to look at the others. Yolei is leaning against Ken, I can't help but feel happy for them. They really fit. Cody is sleeping next to Armadillomon and Mimi leans against my shoulder, sleeping. I for my part can't do anything but think about the others, I have a really bad feeling.

"We should arrive on file Island in a couple of minutes." Izzy shouts from his spot on Kabuterimon's back. I just nod at him and keep my silence. I twitch when I feel my D-Terminal vibrating. I quickly turn it on to read my new E-Mail.

"I'm sorry again Sor. Hope you're not mad at me. Just wanted to tell you that we're fine right now and reach Piedmon's castle in a couple of minutes. I really hope that it wasn't the last time I saw you before. I love you. Tai."

Yeah, thank you Tai for reminding me that you all could be killed when we're searching for this dammn Crystal thing. You really calmed me down with that. I quickly send a response and tell him that everything will be fine and stuff.

I look up and realize that we actually landed and everyone is waiting on the ground for me so I don't hesitate anymore and jump from Birdramon's back. There, in front of us is the entrance to Infinity Mountain. The others all enter the Mountain, they don't notice that I'm not moving, except for T.K. He grabs my arm and pulls me forward. "Come on Sora, we have to hurry." I let him pull me forward, really glad that he's here. I don't even notice where we are going, I just follow everyone, and they are following Izzy, since he's the only one who actually know where we have to head to find this thing. And finally, after a while what felt like hours but I'm sure not even an hour passed. We're standing in a massive room, with hundreds of torches on the wall what gives a quite comfortable feeling.

"Wow, this place is amazing! But are you sure that this was Devimon's hideout? I can't believe that, I mean it's not... run down enough. Don't you think?" Mimi says.

"Whatever, let's focus on finding the Crystal and go and help our friends. Izzy, do you know where to go from here?" Ken asks. I look over the younger digidestined's and Mimi who is telling them everything about Devimon etc. I can't help but wonder why T.K isn't talking with them, I mean; he was here too, like Mimi. At that moment my eyes pass over Patamon, and I remember exactly how Devimon had been defeated, and who had to sacrifice himself do to it, and T.K's silence is no longer a mystery. I really have to pull myself together to not reach and embrace him. That's definitely not the right place, and not the right time. Besides, I'm sure he doesn't want my compassion. I turn to look at Izzy since I realize that he didn't respond to Ken's question yet. His eyes are shut and he looks like he's trying his hardest to remember the map of the tablet. He opens his eyes and points to one of the many doorways which I didn't notice before.

"I think it's that one." He says and that's all we need to head to the door and enter the corridor behind it. This corridor is almost completely dark, and the opposite of the room we were just in. the walls are grey and a few torches with a blue fire give enough light to see where we're walking. All in all, the corridor is much darker than the room before and I really start to miss Tai's presence.

"Oh, this is more like Devimon's style!" Mimi exclaims as we all pause enter the corridor.

"Mimi, you actually sound very excited that this hallway is what you'd expect in Devimon's hideout." Joe remarks as we stand there.

"Well, maybe not excited but that seems more like Devimon's hideout."

"I'm still not sure if that's a good thing" Yolei says, holding onto Ken's arm.

"Well, enough of that. Let's get moving, Matt, Tai and Davis are counting on us. The sooner we find the Crystal the sooner we can get to the others and rescue Kari." T.K says over his shoulder when he starts forward. Everyone is frozen for a second, so I step up after him. After all, I'm worried about my boyfriend, he has a special talent to get himself in danger and the sooner I'm there the better. The others shortly follow, catching up quickly.

Most of the corridors I've been in were really short, leading in another intersection in just a few dozen feet, while this one is starting to get on my nerves. It seems like there's no end of it. I'm not sure if I already drove insane or if it really gets lighter in front of me. Decide that I'm not insane yet...

"I think I see something up ahead!" I exclaim seconds after I said that everyone is obviously agreeing with me because we start to run the last part of the corridor and reach another large room. At first I think that we'd just gone in a circle and ended back in the same room as we were, but then I take a better look. The torches of this room are in a orange-blue color and in the middle of the room is a great statue of a gigantic dragon-like digimon and next to him – I gasp and I'm sure everyone too- is the guy that we saw in the mural. I take a better look at the boy. He's standing in a really proud position. His glance is determined and he's keeping something in his hands. I step forward to him to have a better look at the item he's holding with both hands and gasp when I realize that that is probably the item we're up to. It looks like a big diamond, sparkling, even if here's not much light, it seems like the light is concentrated in the Crystal. I turn to Izzy.

"Do you think this is the same guy?" I ask him and Izzy takes a good look on the guy and his digimon. He looks exactly like Tai. Same body shape, same eyes and the same hair as Tai had before he cut it. Izzy just nods.

"Can somebody tell me why a statue of Tai is in a temple like that? Yolei asks, and I truly can understand why she sounds so confused.

"We don't know. Not even Tai knew when he noticed that he's in one of the mural here in the many rooms." Ken says, his glance stare at the statue of the Tai double.

"I think he's holding something" Cody says after he took a good look at the statue.

"Yes, he's holding the Crystal." I say and everyone turns to me. "I already took a really good look at him" I say, blushing uncontrollably and I'm really glad that the room is so dark so nobody notices.

"Okay, let's grab that thing and head out from here." Joey says and steps forward to grab the Item of the statue, but at the moment Joe touches the Crystal the statue of the dragon seems to awake and stands behind Tai, his wings cover the body of his partner and it's quite impossible to reach for the Crystal again. Joey himself is thrown back a few meters.

"Joey, are you okay? T.K says as shocked as me. Joey mumbles something that sounds like stupid old statues...

I turn again to the statue of Tai that didn't move and the wings from his digimon that are covering his chest, and with that his hands, in a very protective way. It seems like the digimon is afraid that somebody could, although they are just statues, hurt his partner.

"Hey! Here's written something!" Cody exclaims and points to a tablet which is positioned in front of the statues feet. Izzy takes a look at the tablet.

"Izzy, what does it say?" I ask. Izzy turns to me. "Sora I guess you're the only one who could grab the Crystal." He says and I can't help but stare at him in disbelief.

"Me? Why?" I ask.

"I just read the prophecy for you." He says and turns back to the Tablet before he begins:

"I, Tai, decide for now, and forever that the Crystal of the chosen Crests will be never fall in the wrong hands ever again. The destiny of the digital world is to be peaceful with that I sacrifice my life to be the warrior of the Crystal. The day will come when the chosen children will need the Crystal again and I'm willing to give it to them but it's you have to find out on your own who I allow to grab the Crystal."

And with that Izzy turns back to look at me, as well as everyone else.

"Okay, that's clear enough." T.K says and looks at me hopefully.

"I don't think that I'm the one" I say, but I'm sure I'm wrong. I'm actually just scared of the statue that seems to look straight to me.

"What about you just try and we will catch you if you will throw back like joey?" Mimi says and I know that arguing isn't going to help in this situation.

I step forward the statue until I can touch the wings of the dragon. I don't know what to do exactly since I can't grab the Crystal because of the wings so I just trust my inner feeling and touch the wings of the dragon what causes him to spread his wings like he's going to fly away every moment. I want to turn back to look at the others because I don't really know what to do next, since the Crystal is now in front of me and easy to grab but something is there what causes my attention. I turn to look the statue in the eye and I could swear that I just saw a sparkle in his eyes. Finally, I pull myself together and grab the Crystal and without even knowing I'm holding it.

I turn to away from the statue and look at my friends who all look really happy, but the expressions don't last long. They actually look really shocked right now.

"What is it?" I ask confused. Ken just points behind me and I slowly turn back and gasp when I realize that the statues are no longer there. Instead there is a real dragon that's holding a boy who looks very, very tired. The boy notices me and his eyes widened.

"You look exactly like her." He says with a rough voice, but it's the same as Tai's.

"Like who?" I ask, without even hesitate. It feels just right for me to talk with him. He smiles weakly at me. "Never mind. As I can see you were able to grab the Crystal." He says instead of a response of my question.

"Yeah, I guess." I say. He turns to look at the other ones.

"Child of knowledge, you did a quite good job to lead the digidestined's in here. You can be really proud of you." The Tai double says to Izzy.

"Th-Thank you...? " Izzy says and it's obvious that he wants to know his name.

"Taichi, I hope it's not too awkward for you to call me that." He says still with a grin on his lips. I can't help but feel sad. He looks like he's dying right now.

"Not at all Taichi. We're really thankful that you allowed us to grab the Crystal" Joey says from his spot next to Izzy. Taichi turns to look at Joey and his grin grows.

"I can't remember that I allowed it to all of you. Just to Sora." He says.

"Wait, I can't remember telling you my name." I say, now really confused. He turns to me and I can't do anything but stare in his warm chocolate brown eyes that show how weak he really is right now. The dragon behind lays down and places his head on Taichi's lab since Taichi is now sitting quite by himself. He slowly caresses the head of his partner.

"I'm sorry for doing this to you Owryumon. Don't worry it isn't going to last longer" Taichi says quietly to his digimon.

"What isn't going to last longer?" Cody asks, now joining the conversation. Taichi turns to look at him with a look in his face what looks like a big brother to his little one.

"Our life. We aren't from your time. I just survived because I was a statue for hundreds of years. My destiny was to be the warrior of the Crystal. And now that the Crystal don't need a warrior anymore. I guess the digital world is finished with me." He says calmly.

"So, you're dying?" Ken asks a little confused. Taichi just nods.

"Can't we do anything?" Joey asks a little desperate. Sure it's not his nature to let somebody die. Taichi just looks gently at him. "My time was over thousands of years ago. It's time for me to let go barrier of reliability." He says. Nobody says something, we can't. We just stare at this boy who looks just exactly like Tai.

"But first. I have to tell you a few things." Taichi says and attempts us to sit in a circle. I'm sitting on the right of him and Izzy on his left. He smiles brash and winks at me.

"First of all. I'm really proud of you that you all made your way to me. Second, I'm sure you all wonder why I look exactly like Sora's boyfriend and Hikari's brother Tai. I'll be glad to tell you that. You all know the story about the Sovereigns of the digital world but you don't know the entire story because you're good friend Gennai didn't tell you everything. The truth is, I was the first human in the digital world ever. I was born in Bulgaria in 1423and entered the digital world when I was 5 years old. You can imagine that I was shocked as hell when I realized that I wasn't at home anymore. After I entered the digital world the sovereigns called me to them and I grew up with them. In the age of 17 I stopped to get older and I met my partner Owryumon. We didn't have a digivice or something. I just had attributes. Owryumon didn't have to digivolve since he was and still is the strongest digimon who's ever lived. After hundreds of battles the sovereigns told me something about chosen children who will one day arrive in the digital world and safe it. I always thought that that's my destiny. But it wasn't. So to give you my strength I made your crests. It wasn't the sovereigns. It was me. I took every attribute from me and made a crest. Tai looks exactly like me because he's my heir. I gave him my strongest attribute; I gave him everything that I had. I wanted him to be just like me, because that's the only way to stay calm in the digital world. While the others of you panicked he was the calm one and he always knows a solution. I wanted him to be the leader of the chosen ones and you can't imagine how proud I am that he did it exactly like I wanted him to do it." We're all silent. I mean, what are we supposed to say? I can't think straight at the moment so I'm really glad that Joey says something.

"Thank you, Taichi" He says and looks him straight in the eyes. Taichi obviously didn't expect something like that.

"Excuse me?" He says totally confused. Izzy takes Joey's part.

"We thank you because without you we never would've come so far. I really hope that we could do something for you." Izzy says. Taichi just smiles at him.

"Just win this battle. That's all I ask for" He says.

"We will. But what about the Crystal? What does it actually do? And how do we use it?" T.K says from his spot next to Cody. Taichi takes a deep breath and I'm sure his time is running.

"The Crystal allows your digimon to digivolve to higher levels. You just have to point your digivice to it and your digimon will digivolve. Use it with your heart, not with your anger. That could be ending really ugly when you use the Crystal when you're pissed off." Taichi says. He closes his eyes and I actually think for a second he died right now but he opens his eyes again. He leans back to Owryumon.

„Don't you dare to disappoint me digidestined." He says with his eyes half open.

"Is that a goodbye?" I ask him teasingly. He smiles weakly at me.

"I can understand why Tai loves you. Take care of him, he's everything I have left, but don't tell him about me."

"Okay I promise." I say, smiling at him. And with that he closes his eyes again. But this time I know that he isn't going to open them again. Owryumon lays his head next to Taichi's leg and closes his eyes to. After seconds their bodies start to disappear in thousands of sparkles. And then. They're gone.

"Nice Guy.." Joey says quietly. "Yes, I felt like I knew him for years." I say. Izzy smiles "you're not the only one."

"Okay, I think we should head to Piedmon's castle. The others are probably in massive danger and I don't like the thought of my brother's dead body." T.K says and with that he points his digivice to the crystal. Within seconds the room is filled with a bright light.

"Patamon...warp digivolve to...!"

Matt:

"Clown Trick!"

I duck down as the blast of energy flies over my head, instead hitting a large rock.

"You know buddy, I don't think that was the right thing to say." I say to my friend who had ducked on my right. "You seem to have pissed him off a little." My brown haired friend just shrug and grins his lopsided grin.

"Well, what would you have said Matt?" Tai replies, before him and I along with Davis duck again as Piedmon again attacks us.

"Probably something a little less rude." I reply, before the three of us jump from our hiding spot. Seconds later the boulder explodes from Piedmon's attack.

Things aren't going so well at the moment. It started quite good actually. We met Astamon and Armageddemon and managed to beat Armageddemon while Astamon seems to be unbeatable, but luckily for us he disappeared when Piedmon showed up. I actually don't know who's worse; Piedmon or Astamon. I guess Piedmon because I actually thought that we could manage Astamon until Piedmon showed up and started to kick our ass.

"I'd stop running Digidestined. You're only delaying the end of our story." Piedmon says, before sending another blast chasing after Tai. "I might even make the ending a less disfiguring one for you. Just give me the Crystal!" At this point I turn to check where this creepy clown is and I froze when I notice that he'd cornered Tai. He has a ridiculous smile on his face as he slowly drives one of the swords from his back.

"I've been waiting to do this for a long time. What a pity that I didn't do it when I had the chance to. But that doesn't matter. Better late than never, right?" Piedmon says and raises his arm to pierce the sword right in Tai's chest when a yellow blur crashes into him, sending Piedmon flying across the battle ground. Tai yells out in pain and I turn to look at him what happened. Piedmon managed to cut him in his arm.

"Tai you alright?" Davis shouts at him. Tai just nods on his knees, his hair covering his eyes.

I'm completely surprised to see WarGreymon standing there, panting, where Piedmon had been. I don't think I'd ever seen Tai's partner look quite so beat up, even when we fought Diaboromon he looked better.

"Matt!" I turn as a familiar voice calls my name. MetalGarurumon limps forward, looking about as bad as WarGreymon does. Behind him I can see Magnamon getting to Davis.

"We're not finished yet with you clown." My partner growls at Piedmon. "Ice wolf claw!"

"Trump Swords!" Piedmon throws all his swords and the two attacks explode in the middle of their way to each other. The explosion doesn't hit us this time, luckily.

"Everyone together now!" Davis shouts, suddenly appearing at my side.

"It's the only way to harm him!" Tai adds, appearing at my other side, a grin on his face, most likely resulting from the look on my face. "What Matt? Did you think we'd let you run out here all by yourself?" ¨

"Terra Force!"

"Magna Blast!"

"Metal Wolf Claw!"

The three energy blasts unite to one gigantic blast and hit Piedmon with all his power.

"I guess we won again." Tai grins priggish but his grin disappears.

"Not at all." A voice, which belongs to Piedmon, replies to Tai's statement and seconds later I can see the clown walking towards us. "My turn" Piedmon raises his hands to point at Magnamon.

"Clown Trick!" I can't even see the blast, I guess I'm to beaten up to realize something like that, but I can see Magnamon soon falling out of the sky, a massive explosion appearing where he'd been hovering. Piedmon repeats his attack again and hits MetalGarurumon and after that he attacks WarGreymon. I turn to look at my partner who's lying on the ground, totally beaten up. Then I turn to check on the others and realize that every one of us is lying on the ground. Tai's totally unconscious lying on the ground, WarGreymon above him.

"Tai! Wake up Tai, come on!" WarGreymon whines, lying next to his partner. But Tai doesn't show any reaction and for a second my blood froze when I realize that Tai isn't moving at all. Davis obviously realizes the same because he crawls to Tai, so I decide to do the same. Davis slaps Tai a few times on the cheek. "Tai wake up!" I'm totally lost. I can't even think straight, my best mate is lying here, not reacting at all and a maniac clown is preparing himself to finish us off. I hear somebody mumble something and breathe in relief when Tai opens his eyes. "Tai are you alright?" I ask him. He just whines in pain but that's enough to calm me down a bit.

"oh don't worry digidestined. I'm going to end all of you now. Final Spell!"

A charge of energy built up in Piedmon's hands and then flies right at all of us.

I have to shield my eyes, but I can't turn away from it, even if I'd wanted to. WarGreymon jumps with his last energy left on his feet and shields us from the attack. His shield literally disintegrate in his hands, before he's sending flying backwards into MetalGarurumon and both of them fly back in a few rocks. The power of the explosion sends us three flying too but this time I manage to keep my consciousness. I think I'd messes something up, because a sharp pain is coming from my left arm, and some warm liquid is running down my chest slowly, nothing serious though. I manage to look up as Piedmon walks towards MetalGarurumon and WarGreymon. I want to reach them but Tai is closer to them than I am and he's trying to reach them, his hands outstretched as he crawls forward.

"Oh don't worry digidestined." Piedmon says ad he stops next to our partners, looking over at Tai. "I'll be killing you next." He drives one of his swords, holing it over WarGreymon's chest, and I know that he's about to plunge it into his chest, killing my best friend's partner. I finally am able to squeeze my eyes, unable to watch this horror.

"Seven heavens!" A very bright light, like the sun is shining a hundred times brighter than usual, suddenly appears followed by a surprised and slightly pained yelp. At that point I open my eyes and am quite surprised to see that WarGreymon is still alive on the ground and Piedmon is about hundred feet away, and smoking. Above him is a blue and silver armored digimon slowly floating down to the ground. He obviously was the one who attacked Piedmon.

"Seraphimon?" Davis asks, struggling to his feet. The digimon turns his head towards us as Davis says that.

"Davis, you know that digimon?" I ask, looking over towards the younger goggle head.

"Yea, he's patamon's Mega form." Davis replies, looking up to the angel like digimon.

"MATT!" I turn as several people shout my name and others call out Tai and Davis's. T.K, Mimi, and the others are all running towards us, along with a bunch of digimon I'd never seen before, most of whom were quite large.

"Took you guys long enough," Davis says as Ken helps him to his feet. "But we had him right where we wanted him."

"Right Davis." Ken says, shaking his head. Seraphimon makes his way to WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon. He holds his hands out over mine and Tai's partner, and then they start to glow. When the light disappears both of them are standing, fully healed.

"My thanks Seraphimon." Tai's partner says, as MetalGarurumon nods his own thanks.

"So you found that Crystal?" Tai asks walking towards Sora. He looks even worse than I feel right now, and right after he'd already been injured.

"Yea." T.K replies, reaching into his pocket, pulling out a diamond like stone. I can't help but stare at that thing. It's probably the most beautiful thing I ever have seen before.

"Give it to me digidestined!" Piedmon suddenly interrupts our conversation, and I turn from the stone to see the clown dashing at us.

"Crimson Flame!" The gold and red bird like digimon shouts, before flames fly out in a torrent form its wings.

"Mega Electro Shocker!" The giant gold insect like digimon charges up a massive blue sphere of electric energy, before releasing it as Piedmon. The two attacks hit around the clown, causing a large explosion, and sending him flying backwards.

"Alright Phoenixmon!" Sora calls out, cheering the large bird like digimon.

"Way to go HerculesKabuterimon!" Izzy exclaims as well, cheering his digimon.

"Ken!" A voice calls out, getting all of our attention to three of the other new digimon that are running towards us. One of them, with the large black, humanoid bug like digimon, carries Magnamon in his arms.

"Good work GrandisKuwagamon." Ken says as the three came um running up to us. "You, Valkyrimon, and Vikemon did a really good job finding him."

Seraphimon repeats his healing thing and just a couple of seconds later Magnamon stands fully healed on his feet. I look around at that point and all twelve digimon are ready to go at this point.

We actually can beat him. We've got the power to stop him now. I think as all of them line up facing Piedmon, ready to go into the battle.

"Alright, let's finish this clown once and for all." Tai declares, looking forward with the rest of us. Our partners turn once again back to us just to smile at us confidently.

"Oh my dear Tai, I almost forgot something." Piedmon replies with an evil smile and turns to look at the entrance of his castle a bunch of meters away. The door is open, showing that somebody just got out or in.

"You know, I wouldn't assume that we're finished yet, brother." A voice says and I gasp when I turn to the voice. The voice belongs obviously to a girl who's riding a Seadramon up in the sky, dressed completely in black. Her hair almost touches her shoulders and she looks at us with an expression I never saw before in her face. I turn to look at my best mate who's totally paled right now.

"Kari" Tai whispers raspy.