Chapter 11

Return of the Vampire

"What do we do?" Jou said. "Dad won't be home for another hour."

"Open the door or we'll open it for you!" an officer called.

"We gotta find somewhere to put Kouji," Izumi said.

"Mindy, spirit evolve to Freezmon and fly him out of here; we'll meet up with you," Takuya said.

"Ok, spirit evolution… Freezmon," Freezmon picked out Strabimon and flew out the back door with him to avoid being seen.

Jou walked over to the door and opened it.

"Is your father here?" the officer at the door asked.

"No, he won't be back for another hour," Jou replied.

"We have reason to believe that you have a Digimon somewhere in this house."

"Why would we –" Jou was cut off by the officer.

"We got a call from someone who said they saw you kids leaving the Humane Society Department with 2 Digimon, and one of them turned into a kid."

"What was this persons' name?" Takuya asked.

"He didn't say, but he had a deep voice."

Ophanimon said we had trouble coming; could this be it? Izumi wondered.

"But anyway, we have a warrant to search the house," the officer said stepping inside. A few more officers followed.

"Sure, go ahead," Jou said.

After the officers searched every nook and cranny in the house they decided that the witness was mistaken and left the children, but not before warning them to be more careful.

"Whew, that was a close one," Takuya said after the officers drove away.

"Yeah, now we gotta find out where Mindy went," Izumi said. "Wind to Time, come in…"

"Time to Wind, I'm at the park, and you may want to hurry; I think he's waking up."

"Ok, we'll be right there."

The gang left the house and Jou lead them in the direction of the park, but someone with a blood red cape quietly followed.

Kouji opened his eyes slowly – where was he? What had happened? And why was he on the ground? He had so many questions but no answers.

He rubbed his eyes, but was shocked to not see his normal hands; he was wearing gloves without the finger tips, but what he could see of his hands were frightening to him because they were metal claws. He looked at the rest of his arms to find dark blue fur instead of his normal skin.

What happened? He wondered. He looked around and saw Mindy sitting on a bench.

"Kouji?" she asked. "Are you awake?"

He looked at her in confusion wondering how long the girl had been sitting there.

"Kouji!" he heard someone call. He turned around to see his friends and Jou running toward him with Kouichi in the front.

What are they doing here? He wondered.

"Kouji, are you ok?" Kouichi asked as he leaned down next to his brother.

Kouji looked up at him. Was that a snout he was seeing sticking out of his face? This was too weird for him. He couldn't say anything; he was too freaked out. He just nodded his head, but crossed his eyes to make sure he was seeing straight.

"Hahaha," they heard a laugh behind them. They all turned to see the figure that had been following them. "United at last only to be destroyed!"

"Myotismon?!" Jou exclaimed.

"Yes, are you surprised to see me?" the Vampire Digimon asked.

"Didn't we just defeat you?"

"Did you really think I would be defeated that easily?" Myotismon asked offended. "I have been here plotting to get my revenge, but when these Digi-destined got here I decided to wait a little while longer so I could defeat all of you at once!"

"Yeah, and just defeat us when we're weakened, right?" Takuya asked.

Myotismon paused. "Wait a minute, where are the others?" He asked. "And your Digimon."

"We don't have our Digimon anymore," Jou replied. "They're in the Digital World. And the others are at home."

"Oh… Well then, we will begin your destruction another time," he said. "But I will be back!"

Myotismon disappeared and bats flew off into the sky.

"Uh, what was that about?" Takuya asked.

"I think he wants to destroy all of us, but he wants to wait until we're all together…" Jou replied.

"Well, I think it might be safe to go back to the house now since the cops wont be coming back," Izumi said.

Kouji looked at them in confusion, still worried about what he looked like, but he could finally speak. "Do you have a mirror by any chance?"

They all looked at him in shock; was Kouji asking for a mirror?

"What?" he asked. "I think I have a snout!"

They all laughed at his worried face and headed back to the house.

"I HAVE A SNOUT AND FUR!!!!!!!!" Kouji screamed as he looked in a full length mirror.

"Well at least you still have pants," Junpei said.

Strabimon flashed him a dirty look.

"It's not so bad, maybe you can cover it up with something," Izumi suggested.

"With what?!" Kouji demanded. "I have big pointy ears and a snout!"

"Can we find something to do about it in the morning?" Jou asked. "It's pretty late."

"Yeah, we can deal with it in the morning," Takuya agreed.

They all went up to Jous room and went to bed, but Kouji was still freaking out about his appearance.

"Jou," Mr. Kido said knocking on the door.

Jou sat up in bed and put on his glasses. He walked over to the door, "What is it?"

"Were you able to get their friend back yesterday?"

"Yeah, and he's fine… Kind of; he freaked out more about the fur than the fact he was a Digimon, so I think its fine."

"Ok, just be careful today," Mr. Kido said. "I gotta go to work now, so feel free to raid the kitchen and have your friends over."

"Ok, thanks Dad," Jou said before closing the door.

Jou scanned the room but noticed someone was missing; the blue and white fluffy someone.

He looked frantically through the house only to find Kouji in front of the mirror again looking at his new fur coat.

"What are you doing in here?" Jou asked.

"I'm shedding… I think it might be a good thing."

"Good for you, but just don't shed on the furniture," Jou said.

"What do you think I am; a dog?" Kouji asked in an offended tone.

Jou looked at the boy, "well…"

Strabimon slapped his gloved hand onto his face.

The 2 boys heard knocking on the front door so Jou went down to find Taichi, Hikari, Tamato, Takeru, Koushiro, Sora, and Mimi waiting outside.

"Hey," Taichi said. "How'd things go last night after we left?"

"Well, the police came to search the house; apparently someone saw us and they called the cops, but we managed to get Kouji out of the house, and we ran into someone…"

"Who?" Yamato asked.

Jou gulped, "Myotismon."

"MYOTISMON?!" everyone exclaimed.

"Yeah; he said he was gonna destroy us, but since you guys weren't there he decided not to."

Kouji came down the stairs, "What's taking so long? Aren't you supposed to be helping me get this fur off?" He stopped when he got to the bottom of the steps… "This is embarrassing…"

"Oh, these are other Digi-destined like you and your friends," Jou explained, introducing the group.

"Oh he's so cute!" Hikari exclaimed running up to Kouji.

"No!" Kouji yelled running up the stairs. "Don't say that!"

Takeru laughed, "He's cute but obviously not cuddly."

"So Myotismon is back and we don't have our Digimon," Taichi said annoyed.

"Yeah, so I guess it's up to these new Digi-destined who turn into Digimon," Sora said.

The computer suddenly turned on and the screen was fuzzy.

Jou looked at the computer and saw the outline of something on it. "What's that?"

"I think it's Agumon!" Taichi said running over to the computer. "Agumon, is that you?"

"It's me Taichi," the lizard type Digimon said.

"What're you doing on Jous' computer?"

"I was looking for you, but your mom told me that you and Hikari were here, so I came to this computer," Agumon explained.

"Well you have good timing, because we have a big problem; Myotismon is back somehow," Sora said.

"I know, and we're all gonna come and help you defeat him," Agumon said. "That is, if we can fit through this computer screen."

Agumon started squeezing himself through the screen and eventually succeeded, and was followed by Gabumon, Biyomon, Tentomon, Gomamon, Patamon, Gatomon and Palmon.

"Hey, you came back!" Sora said hugging Biyomon.

"Mimi! I missed you so much!" Palemon said running up to her partner.

"Koushiro, you're still a computer wiz, right?" Tentomon asked.

"Of course," Koushiro replied.

"Hey Jou, how's it been goin'?" Gomamon asked his old friend.

"Well, pretty well considering I have 5 kids and a huge rookie Digimon in my bedroom."

"A Digimon?" Gabumon asked.

"Yeah, Strabimon. Well, and kid turned into a Strabimon, but he keeps freaking out about the fur."

"So what are we supposed to do about Myotismon?" Yamato asked.

"Well first we should go get the others because they're Digi-destined to, and he wants to destroy them, so they should at least help us," Jou said.

"Other Digi-destined?" Agumon asked.

"Yeah, they came from the future," Taichi explained.

"Good morning," Takuya said walking down the stairs. He looked around the room at the Digimon. "Who're you?"

"These are our Digimon partners," Sora explained.

"And where did they come from?" Takuya asked.

"The Digital World; they just popped out of the computer," Mimi said.

"So should we get to work coming up with a plan to defeat Myotismon?" Taichi asked.

"Yeah, I'll go get the others," Takuya said racing back up the stairs.

The Frontier Digi-destined came down the stairs with Kouichi in the back dragging Kouji down with them.

"No! You can have this meeting without me; I am not going down there with fur!" Kouji argued.

"Kouji, I'm your older brother, and you're second in-charge on this team, so therefore you have to be here for this," Kouichi said.

"Ugh, fine," Strabimon said. "But don't think I'll like it."

"So how are we gonna beat Myotismon?" Taichi asked.

"Maybe we'll just do it how we did last time; fight him and win," Jou suggested.

"But what if he's more powerful than last time," Sora said. "We need an actually plan instead of just fighting and hoping we win."

"Well, just bear in mind that the group is much bigger now," Takuya said.

"Yeah, so we have your help to, so that should make it much easier," Yamato said.

"But we're down one spirit though," Izumi said. "And that also means we can't use Beowulfmon."

"You're right," Junpei said. "So maybe we should hide out and wait to fight this guy until after Kouji turns back into a human."

"Yeah, but where can we hide that Myotismon won't find us?" Mimi asked.

"There's an old abandoned building down town," Koushiro said. "We might be able to stay there for the time being."

"But there are also tons of people down town to, so if he finds us that could be dangerous for the other people," Hikari said.

"Yeah, and not to mention that people might freak if they see us turn into Digimon," Kouichi said.

"Koushiro, can you find out if there are any empty buildings maybe out of the city somewhere?" Sora asked.

"I could check," the boy replied pulling out his PiBook. "It says there is an old building that caught fire a few months ago. It's still standing (barely) and no one lives there."

"Perfect, we can stay there and then maybe Myotismon will just find us after a while," Taichi said.

"But what if Myotismon finds us before we're ready; then what?" Mimi asked.

"And how will we get Kouji out of the city without anyone seeing him?" Kouichi asked.

"Maybe one of us could spirit evolve and fly him out," Izumi suggested.

"But what if we get spotted to?" Mindy asked.

"That's another problem, so it looks like we'll just have to wait here for now," Taichi said.

"I guess so," Takuya said. "Well, we should be able to hold out that long."

"So should we meet back here tomorrow?" Yamato asked Jou.

"Well, since Myotismon will probably be looking for us it might be better if you just stayed here for now," Jou said.

Everyone called their parents to let them know that they were going to be spending sometime at the Kidos' house, and that they would be back in a couple of days. Taichis' parents and Yamatos' mother weren't too pleased with the idea, but after the two oldest promised to take care of their younger siblings the agreed to let them stay.

"So I guess we just wait now," Sora said sitting down on the couch.

"I guess so," Izumi said.

"Well, before I embarrass myself anymore, I am going up stairs and finding a room to lock myself in," Strabimon said walking toward the stairs.

He walked up the stairs and found an empty room to stay in and found a lock on the door. Perfect he thought.

He peered out the window at the backyard which was full of trees, and could've sworn he saw Karatenmon in one of them, but when he leaned closer to get a better look the Digimon was gone. That's weird, he thought. I must have been seeing things.

He scanned the yard just in case he missed the Digimon, but there was nothing there, until he looked in the same spot he saw Karatenmon before and saw him again. He opened the window and pressed his nose against the screen to get a better look, but it wasn't Karatenmon, but Duskmon!

He jumped back from the window how could Duskmon be here? He wondered. I digitized him and turned him back into Kouichi.

The Digimon again vanished. "That was weird," Kouji said to himself. He kept glancing out the window to make sure he was only seeing things when Raremon appeared in the yard; he almost leaped out the window to attack the sludge Digimon, but stopped when he saw that the trees around the monster to showing right through it.

"It's an illusion!" he exclaimed. "Looks like someone knows where here and wants us to come out."

He ran down the stairs to tell the other digi-destined, but when he got there they were gone. He scanned the room for any sign of them, but all he found was a note on the coffee table. He picked it up to read it "Dearest Digi-destined," it read. "I have taken your friends to the mountains for a little trip. If you ever want to see them again, meet me in the back yard and I will tell you where they are."

Kouji crumpled the note in his claws, "Myotismon," he growled in a low voice.

He raced out the door, unaware of the other Digi-destined tied up behind the kitchen counter.

"Myotismon, where did you take them!" he yelled, but there was no response.

"My, my, my," a voice said. "How pitiful that you fell for it so easily; I would have expected much more from the Warrior of Light."

Strabimon looked around the yard but didn't see anyone. "Show yourself you coward!"

"I'm afraid I can't; for I can only come out at night now. But I have some Digimon that will gratefully grant you your wish and fight you. That is, if you can handle them all at once!"

The voice vanished and Raremon, Karatenmon, Duskmon, and Icedevimon all came up out of the trees.

"They're not real!" Kouji told himself. He did believe it until Karatenmon pulled out his swords and slashed at him, scratching the side of his arm. "Maybe they are real!"

"Crow Swords," Karatenmon yelled, sending a laser out of his crossed swords.

"Acid Sludge!" Raremon said as green sludge spurted out of his mouth.

"Icy Shower!" icicles flew out of Icedevimons wings at Strabimon.

"Deadly Gaze!" lasers shot out of all of Duskmons eyes and headed straight for the boy.

"How can they be real?" Strabimon wondered, leaping out of the way of the attacks. "Duskmon was the evil version of the Warrior of Darkness, so he can't be real!" But that was when he again noticed that Raremon should've been crushing trees and making flowers wither, but none of that happened.

Karatenmons attack slammed into the house, but vanished in a puff of smoke as soon as it hit the wall.

Duskmons lasers didn't leave any marks in the ground, so that meant that only one of them could've been real; Icedevimon, whose attack hit the second floor windows and shattered them.

I bet I have to defeat Icedevimon to make all the others go away, he must be the one behind the illusions!

"Light Star!" the Digimon yelled, sending a six pointed star out of his chest.

The attack hit Icedevimon, but it was no use to use Rookie level attacks against a Champion level Digimon.

"Your attacks, they're useless against me," Icedevimon snorted.

"So what, I'll still find a way to defeat you," Kouji said, but he really didn't plan on being able to win.

Icedevimon used his 'Zero Freeze' attack, sending freezing beams out of his eyes.

Strabimon jumped to avoid the attack, but something happened while he was in midair; he started shaking, and feeling very dizzy all of a sudden. He started crashing to the ground, and he couldn't catch his balance. He kept falling, but the fall was further than he thought it would be. And then he hit the ground, but instead of landing on the hard grassy floor, he landed on something soft. But he fainted before he could figure out what it was…

To be continued

Hey, sorry it took so long to upload this one. I was gonna be finishing it on Thursday, but then some stuff came up about my niece, and there was panic, and part of the story go erased, so I had to rewrite that whole part, and it's just been crazy today. I did want to make it longer, but I wanted to end it with some kind of thing that kept you guessing. Well, I will try to get the next chapter up this weekend because my sister is going to be gone and leave her computer for the weekend, so I may or may not get the next chapter up, but I'm gonna try. Please Review ^_^