Chapter 8
Cannonmon Fires it up

"Man Izumi, do you think you could've hit me any harder?" Takuya groaned, rubbing his face as they walked.
"It was your own fault!"
"Ok, ok… but you could have turned down the hurt a little bit at least…"
Izumi flashed him a dirty look and he immediately shut up.
"Where are we going anyway?" Junpei asked.
"We're going to find Lucemon and defeat him," Takuya said like it was the simplest task in the world.
"And how are we supposed to defeat Lucemon once we find him, and how do we know that he hasn't moved his layer after we totally trashed his last one?" Kouji asked.
"Well, I hadn't really thought about that…" Takuya said, rubbing his hand on the back of his head and smiling innocently.
"You never do…"
"Hey, what's that building over there?" Kelly asked, pointing to a small building on a hill. The sky around it was dark, and she wasn't sure who would go there, but it seemed pretty harmless.
"Yeah, it looks kinda cool and creepy," Mindy added.
"I don't know, but maybe we can rest there," Izumi said.
"Lets hope so," Kouichi said.
They hurried up to the building only to find a small chapel on the hill. It was dark, and the windows looked pretty broken, and the door was falling off of its hinges.
"I don't trust this place," Kelly said as they walked up the steps.
"Well, we don't have much choice, do we?" Takuya said.
They walked into the chapel and found the lights didn't work either, "Typical," Junpei said. "Just like in the horror movies…" And Junpei was more than right, for just outside some evil, ghostly Digimon were dancing around a grave yard.
"Looks like some lost travelers are here for some rest," one of the ghosts said.
"Well, does this mean we can have dinner?" another asked.
"It depends, are they humans?" the first one said.
One of the ghosts peeked into the broken window, "Yes, they are. But lets hope that they're not like those last humans who came here."
The ghosts kept dancing and started laughing, overjoyed at the thought of having humans for dinner.
"What are those shadows outside?" Kelly asked, backing away from the window.
"Kelly, for the last time, you're just seeing things!" Mindy exclaimed.
"But Mindy, I know I saw something this time!"
"Will you guys go to bed?" Takuya groaned. "You're keeping everyone up!"
"Fine," Kelly said. "But if I get eaten by ghosts in the middle of the night, it's your fault!"
After a while of shivering at the dancing shadows outside, Kelly finally fell asleep, knowing she could just Beast Spirit Evolve to Hartmon and beet the ghosts.

"Wake up, you must wake up," Kelly heard a voice saying to her. She opened her eyes to see a creepy looking human wearing a black and white robe and a weird mask standing over her.
She jumped back and screamed at the sight of the man, but quickly apologized for her outburst.
"Huh, what's the emergency, Kelly?" Mindy asked sitting up, but quickly jumped back when she saw the man.
Everyone else woke up, but after being in the Digital world for so long, nothing really scared them.
"You are just in time for a big holiday!" the man said. "The Bakemon holiday is tomorrow! Please join us for it; you could be our guests of honor!"
"What is the Bakemon holiday?" Izumi asked.
"Nothing but bad news I'm afraid," Bokomon said. "It's the day when Bakemon gets worshiped, but normally it's only the Bakemon worshiping their Lordbakemon, but I've never heard of humans worshiping him."
"What is a Bakemon?" Tomoki asked.
"They're ghost type Digimon, they like to stay in the shadows, but when they do come out they are very dangerous," Bokomon explained.
"Who would worship a ghost?" Kelly asked. "I mean, ghosts are cool and all, but worshiping them? Isn't that a little bit over the top?"
"That's what I'm wondering," Bokomon replied.
"Well, we'd love to stay, but we have somewhere to be," Takuya said. "You see, we're trying to save the Digital World."
"Well can't you save the Digital World after the Bakemon Holiday? Couldn't you take a couple days off?" the man asked.
"Like I said, love to, but can't," Takuya said.
"But you must!" the man snapped, his mask cracking.
Everyone took a step toward the doors.
"You will stay for the Bakemon Holiday! Even if we make you!" the mask cracked all the way, revealing the face of a Bakemon.
"Oh dear, it's Bakemon!" Bokomon exclaimed. "We must get out!"
Everyone started running towards the door, only to be greeted by more people dancing in the graveyard, all wearing the same masks.
"Are those more Bakemon?" Izumi asked.
"I think they are," Takuya said.
"Don't worry Izumi, I'll protect you," Junpei said, standing up straight to make himself look more buff.
"Bakemon, stop them!" the Bakemon yelled, floating out of the Church.
All the people stopped their dancing to see you he was talking about, and big smiles crossed over their faces. The masks all cracked, revealing terrible Bakemon with nasty yellow teeth and black and white beady eyes.
The Digi-destined were cornered between the Bakemon with no hope of escaping.
"Now, take them and throw them in the prison so they'll be fresh for tomorrow's festival!" the main Bakemon said, and all the other Bakemon came and grabbed the Digi-destined.
"Man, this stinks!" Takuya said, plopping down on the floor.
"If you had listened to me last night, we wouldn't even be in this mess!" Kelly exclaimed.
"Oh, well sorry that some shadows outside meant that there were ghosts living here!" Takuya said.
"Break it up you guys, fighting isn't going to get us out of here," Izumi said.
"Yeah, we should be finding a way out of this mess," Kouichi said.
"But how, we're locked in," Tomoki said.
"What if we sprite evolved, broke down the bars, and tore those creeps apart," Mindy suggested.
"I'm game for that," Takuya said.
"Execute, Spirit Evolution!" Junpei, Mindy and Kouichi said, turning into Beetlemon, Freezmon and Lowemon.
"Execute, Beast Spirit Evolution!" Kelly, Izumi and Tomoki said, Beast Spirit Evolving into Hartmon, Zephyrmon and Korikakumon.
"Execute, Fusion Evolution!" Kouji and Takuya said, turning into Beowulfmon and Aldamon.
"Beo Saber!" Beowulfmon said, slicing the prison bars with his sword.
"Nice, but now we gotta find those creeps," Aldamon said.
They ran out into the main Sanctuary and found all of the Bakemon bowing at the front, all chanting the same gibberish.
"What are they doing?" Zephyrmon whispered.
"I think they're calling Lord Bakemon," Bokomon said, sounding like he wanted to get out as soon as possible.
"Well then, let's stop them from calling him!" Aldamon said, jumping out at the Bakemon. "Atomic Inferno!"
The fireballs hit the Bakemon, letting them know that they had company, and they all turned from their chant and started going toward the warriors.
"Nice going Takuya," Beowulfmon said.
"How was I supposed to know that they would come after us?"
"Normally when you attack someone they come after you, its physics!"
"Well, I'm sorry then."
"Can we just beat these guys and get out of here without you two fighting?" Zephyrmon asked.
"Fine," Aldamon said. "Solar Wind Destroyer!"
The Bakemon evaded the attack.
"Frozen Hunter!" Beowulfmon called, but his attack also missed.
"Love Guns!" Hartmons' attack shot through the building, but didn't hit any of the Bakemon.
"Hurricane Gale!" Zephyrmons' attack hit one of the Bakemon, but just barely.
"Avalanche Axes!" Korikakumon said, attacking the Bakemon with his axes, but they just got out of the way of the attack.
"Thunder Fist!"
"Shadow Meteor!"
"Time Dagger!"
Those attacks just had the same effect as the others.
"How can we beat them?" Korikakumon asked. "They just move out of the way of our attacks."
Everyone looked to Mindy.
"What?" she asked.
"Use your time dust and freeze them, then we can take them out easily," Hartmon said.
"Oh, ok. Time Dust!"
All the Bakemon froze and the Digi-destined were able to take care of them before they unfroze, but they didn't know that one of the Bakemon had escaped outside, and was digivolving.
"Well, looks like we're done here," Takuya said, de-digivolving back into his human self.
"Yeah, that was easier than I thought it would be," Izumi said.
"Not so fast, you children aren't going anywhere!" a scratchy voice said.
They all turned to see a Bakemon in a witch hat standing behind them.
"Oh dear, that's Soulmon!" Bokomon exclaimed. "He's the Champion form of Bakemon, the only difference in appearance is the witch hat he wears on his head, but his attacks are much powerful."
"We can take him!" Takuya said, pulling out his D-tector to Spirit Evolve to Agunimon, but Soulmon knocked his d-tector out of his hand before he had a chance to Spirit Evolve. "Hey, what was that for?"
"You two are for the main course," Soulmon said, pointing at Takuya and Kouji. "But for now I wanna snack on your friends first. Necro Magic!" He lunged at Beowulfmon, making him De-digivolve, and then took Koujis' D-tector, and collected Takuyas' off of the ground.
"Hey, give those back!" Kouji ordered.
"Not until I finish your other friends, then I'll fight and finish you off!"
"Not if we can help it," Lowemon said. "Shadow Meteor!"
"Right, Lightning Blitz!" Beetlemon yelled.
"Frozen Arrow Heads!"
"Romantic Glare!" the eyes on Hartmons wings sent eyeball shaped lasers out at Soulmon.
"Time Dagger!"
"Plasma Paws!"
The attacks all combined and hit Soulmon, but he didn't seem fazed by them at all. "Energy Drain!" he cried, going to Zephyrmon and draining all of her energy into himself, making himself bigger than usual. Zephyrmon De-digivolved and hurried to join Takuya and Kouji out of the line of fire.
"What just happened?" Takuya asked.
"I don't know, but it couldn't have been good; he took all of my energy and gave it to himself."
"Energy Drain!" he went for Freezmon this time, but she didn't have time to evade it because of his speed. Mindy de-digivolved and went to join the others.
"He keeps getting bigger and bigger," Izumi said, getting worried.
"Don't worry about it, there is no way he'll get Kelly; she grew up in the ghetto!" Mindy said, but of course the minute she said it, he got Kelly. "But I have been wrong before."
"Guys, keep fighting!" Takuya yelled. We gotta win this!
Come one Kouichi, you can do it! Kouji thought.
We've gotta win this, I know they can do it!" Izumi thought.
This is so cool! Kelly thought. It's like a comic book, but in real life!
I wish I could help them… Mindy thought.
"Hang in there guys, we can handle this chump," Beetlemon said.
"Right," Lowemon and Korikakumon replied.
"Shadow Meteor!"
"Thunder Fist!"
"Avalanche Axes!"
Soulmon didn't even flinch as the attacks went crashing into him.
"It didn't even to anything!" Beetlemon said.
"Of course it didn't… Energy Drain!"
Beetlemon de-digivolved back to Junpei, and he ran off to join the others. "Its up to you guys now!"
"Yeah, but can we do it?" Korikakumon asked.
"We should be able to, if we…" Lowemon said, making a plan with Tomoki.
"If you guys aren't going to fight, I'll have to find another way to entertain myself," Soulmon said, getting bored with their planning. He looked over and saw the others that he had attacked before. "I know, Soul Cry!" he said, sending little ghost-like creatures at the group.
"What are those things?" Takuya asked.
"I don't know, but they don't seem to be good," Kouji replied.
The ghosts circled around them, showing them terrible faces and claws.
"These ghosts carry poison, so be careful not to let them hit you," Bokomon warned.
The ghosts slashed at them, but they were able to evade them long enough for the two warriors left standing to make a plan.
"Slide evolution!" Lowemon said, "Jagerlowemon."
"Frozen Arrowheads!" Korikakumon yelled, catching Soulmon in his attack.
"Hey, let go of me!" Soulmon cried.
"Ebony Blast," Jagerlowemon shot his blasts at Soulmon.
Smoke rose up all around Soulmon as the blasts kept coming. After the smoke cleared no one was expecting what they saw; Soulmon wasn't even scratched, and he grew 10 xs in size!
"It didn't even bother him!" Korikakumon exclaimed.
"My turn!" Soulmon screamed, his voice even more high pitch and scratchy than it was. "Finishing Trance," he said, picking up the whole church and throwing it at the warriors.
They both De-digivolved from the weight being slammed onto them, and they got up, and tried to think of a way to beet him,
"Kouichi, Tomoki, get out of there!" Kouji yelled as Soulmon charged up his Energy Drain attack.
"No!" Mindy yelled, her D-tector started flashing white; there was a big earthquake and a little figure came out of the rubble from the broken church and went to her. "It's my beast spirit!"
She sucked the spirit into her D-tector, the figure came up on the screen. "Execute, Beast Spirit Evolution," Mindy said, as she slashed her D-tector against the data formed around her hand, "Cannonmon!"
"It's the Beast Spirit of the Legendary Warrior of Time, Cannonmon!" Bokomon exclaimed. "Her cannon gun is what gave her the name of Cannonmon. She wears a stop watch around her neck that lets out a powerful, ear-shattering attack. She can also freeze her opponent with her Freeze Claw."
Cannonmon jumped infront of the attack, backfiring it against her hard armor.
"That can't be; no one can block my power!" Soulmon exclaimed.
"Well, I can," Cannonmon said, pulling out her cannon gun. "Cannon Fire!" the attack shot all over the place, slamming into Soulmon, but he didn't seem to notice it until it hit his witch hat.
"Hey, I'm losing my energy!" he cried, shrinking a little bit.
"Cannonmon, his hat is his weak spot; you gotta try to knock it off of him!" Kelly called to her friend.
"Sure thing, Cannon Fire!" she aimed at the hat, and kept hitting it, until eventually it fell off, and he became a normal Bakemon. "Now to finish it off," She said "Ticking Doom." He stop watch snapped off of the chain around her neck and grew ten fold, making an unbearable ticking noise that shattered the Bakemons' ears. "Lets stop your evil rampage; fractal code, digitize!"
The Bakemon went back to the egg as Mindy observed his data into her D-tector.

"Mindy that was totally awesome! You kicked butt out there, all while looking super kick-butt awesome!" Kelly screamed, running up to the girl and hugging her after she de-digivolved.

Mindy rubbed the back of her head; "Gee, you think so?"

"Hell yeah, and you even controlled your Beast Spirit!" Kelly exclaimed getting jealous.

"Yeah, how did you control your Beast Sprit?" Takuya asked.

"Well, I guess it was just because I wanted to protect Kouichi and Tomoki so much, that I just was able to control it," Mindy said.

"That's what happened with Izumi and Kouichi too, but at least I didn't run into rocks," Takuya said turning to Kouji.

"So what, at least I didn't try to kill everyone," Kouji replied smiling.

"Can we not bring that up ever again?" Takuya asked.

"How can we not? I'm still bruised from it!" Kouji exclaimed, and Junpei agreed.

Tomoki laughed at Takuyas' angry face, but it didn't last long when Takuya said, "Well at least I didn't dance around the Autumn Leaf Fair like Tarzan."

Kouichi, Mindy, and Kelly all laughed at the stories of the others not being able to control their Beast Spirits, but then Mindy decided to bring up Kelly shooting her guns everywhere and nearly shooting her head off, then Kelly stopped laughing and joined the group of embarrassed children, while Kouichi and Mindy kept laughing.

"Izumi, were you able to control your Beast Spirit?" Mindy asked.

"Sure was, it was great seeing all of the boys jealous faces afterwards."

"Hey, I was not jealous!" Takuya exclaimed. Everyone stared at him, "Ok, maybe I was a little jealous, but I wasn't that jealous…"

"Yeah, sure," Izumi said.

"Excuse me, but shouldn't we continue on our way if we plan on defeating Lucemon and saving the world?" Bokomon asked.

"Yeah, we probably should," Takuya said, and they walked off toward where they found the layer.

"Can't we just take one of those Trailmon things?" Kelly asked. "My shoes are gonna get holes in them."

"Well, if you didn't notice; there aren't any Trailmon near here, so I don't think we-" Kouji was cut off by an obnoxious "Woot Woot" that sounded like a Trailmon, when Mole the Trailmon pulled over next to them.

"A Trailmon!" Kelly exclaimed. "It's like the heavens heard my cry of agony for my shoes and sent a Trailmon for me!"

"Actually no, I just happened to be in the area when I saw you guys and thought I could lend you a hand."

"Well it was the heavens that made sure you were in the area, so either way someone up there loves me," Kelly said, trying to debate with Mole that he was meant to be there at that certain time for her sake, but he wasn't buying it.

"Well do you think you could give us a ride as close to Lucemons' layer as you can?" Takuya asked.

"I think I've seen the place, so I guess I could give you a hand," Mole replied. "I'm actually headed that way right now."

"Great, thanks," Kouji said as they got on the train.

"Here have some chocolate," Junpei said, plopping a bar of chocolate into the Trailmons' mouth, and then hopping onto the train.

"Hold onto your hats and keep your arms, legs, and heads inside the train at all times," Mole said before zooming off into the direction of Lucemons' no longer secret layer.

To be continued.

Well, it was a little bit longer, and I am still working on getting them up quickly, so be expecting the next chapter soon. Please review.