Friend and Foe

Biyomon stood at the edge watching with his keen eyes as Beelzemon and the humans came in contact with the Daughters of Yggdrasil. In his mind the fact that a group such as the daughters would interact with the demon man didn't make the greatest sense in his mind. He continued to watch them interact before he felt a a chill run up his back.

"So he brought the humans already?" Biyomon turned and saw the dark figure of Ravemon standing near the portal arms crossed over his chest. The smaller bird digimon just gave a soft hum and continued looking to the horizon.

"I told him he only had a day to come back from the other side just as you ordered if I remember." The larger bird man just gave a soft chuckle as he stepped forward to join Biyomon in his vigil.

"Why sound so disappointed by that old friend you know it was necessary. In fact might I ask why you found it wise to try and destroy him?" Biyomon just turned one eye towards Ravemon and glared.

"If everything you've said is true about him why should he be allowed to live in the first place?!" Biyomon had taken to hover above ground as he said this so he could look the mega level in the eye. Ravemon just gave a slight smirk as if he was about to let the Rookie in on a joke.

"For he can still be of use to my master of course Biyomon. Why simply destroy such a powerful being when we can instead direct that power towards our greater good?" Biyomon just shook his head.

"I have my doubts but I've seen the before how your master could see outcomes we could not even begin to think of. Very well I will trust this decision for now."

"Good when the time is right we will be in need of this portal." Ravemon turned around and dropped his right arm to his side while placing his left knuckles to his right shoulder.

"For the coming peace." With that he took to the air at such of speed he was out of sight in less than a second. Biyomon just sighed after that and mirrored the motion.

"For the coming peace."

Two years ago.

Beelzemon wandered the wastes his feet kick up dust as he wandered through the desert. Eyeing the horizon he looked for a reprieve from the environment he was in. He spotted it when he saw in the distance large palm trees with strange fruits hanging from them. Almost seeming to smell the tang of water he gave a slight grin and move towards the oasis. Though as he moved at some point it felt he'd passed an unseen barrier so that the sand beneath his feet was no longer the coarse sands of the digital desert but of the sand at a beach. Looking around at the trees and the water in front of him Beelzemon realized that this was less an oasis and seemingly a completely different piece of landscape crudely fit into a gap that must have existed in the great desert.

Still such things were becoming common now and reaching up he plucked a fruit that seemed to be a violet star and found another tree closer to the water to lean against and enjoy the snack.

"PLEASE HELP US!" Jerking his head around Beelzemon tried to find the source of the cry eventually spotting it down the beach. An Angewomon had two Salamon cowering behind her as she stood in front of another Digimon towering over them. It was a golem of gray stone large and imposing at least two feet taller than Beelzemon himself. One hand was a giant stone fist while the other seemed a stump with large shards of crystal surrounding in a crude mimicry of fingers. Strange though was that billowing behind it seemed to be a tattered dark blue jacket it wore around its neck like a cape. It beat its actual hand against its chest and bellowed.

"Come on pretty angel lets fight!" Beelzemon honestly could have just continued on his way. He had his mission and these Digimon he owed nothing. As he flew through the air from his jump both his feet collided with the stone mon's face making it skid on its feet away from the others. So honestly Beelzemon felt he should just walk away and… wait a minute. It was at that point that Beelzemon's mind had caught up with what his body had done and now found himself standing between the smaller Digimon and the golem ready to fight. His opponent crashed his arms together three times.

"OH YEAH! You look like a much better fight." Beelzemon just smirked pointed at the other Digimon.

"And you look like something Ebonwumon puked out." With that the stone giant gave a bellow and charged towards him raising his crystal covered arm to bring it down in a hammerblow. Beelzemon instead tensed slightly and then jumped over the other Digimon. As he went over his tail lashed out grabbing one of the sleeves of the on his foes jacket cape and pulling him onto his back and the demon landed. The golem threw his arms back and Beelzemon had to roll forward to dodge which gave the other enough time to raise back up to his feet. The two turned to face their foe. Beelzemon quickly raised his guns while the golem rose up his crystal hand.

"DOUBLE IMPACT!"

"HEAVEN DIAMOND DUST!"

The three crystals from the golem's hand shot forward as Beelzemon started firing shots at them. The crystals plowed through the first few shots but he kept firing each shot slowing them. Eventually the crystals just fell to the ground and Beelzemon's guns clicked empty. The demon holstered his and both surged forward again each with a fist raised and Beelzemon's glowing brightly with orange energy.

"STOP!" Both combatants skidded to a stop their knuckles lightly tapping together instead of the collision of power and energy that was intended. The golem quickly turned towards the source of the voice and got to a knee Beelzemon looking up and seeing a dark figure descending. It was an armored Digimon with a great red cap flowing behind it. Legs being more like spikes and its gauntlets like claws. Its shoulder armor looked like the jaws of a great beast and its chest had a round red core. It turned to the kneeling Digimon of stone.

"Banchogolemon what do you think you're doing? You shouldn't being taking a swing at everything you come across." The stone Digimon just held his head low.

"I'm sorry boss bust I haven't had a good fight in ages and it was so boring. " The dark Digimon just snapped his fingers and surrounded Banchogolemon in a dark energy easily lifting the stone giant off the ground. Beelzemon at this point just crossed his arms over his chest.

"So who the hell are you supposed to be?" The armored Digimon turned to look at him as if just really noticing who Beelzemon was.

"Ah names Plutomon ruler of the badlands how ya doing. Look sorry about my guy here he is a bit gun ho on the violence. So say we just forget and move on?" Beelzemon's three eyes all blinked at once. More due to the surprise at the casual tone Plutomon had taken. Really he expected possible a monologue or offense but the dark Digimon seemed calm all things considered. He stopped to consider the offer for a minute.

"How should I trust that?" Plutomon tilted his head as if thinking.

"I don't but would getting rockhead here to apologize help a little?" He hovered the other Digimon closer to him and tapped his knuckles on his head.

"Ok now I want you to apologize to the nice mon for being a jerk." He turned Banchogolemon towards Beelzemon so the stone giant could look him in the eye and then bow his head.

"I'm real sorry for causen ya trouble." Beelzemon blinked again.

"Well apology accepted I guess just get on out of here." At that the teeth on Plutomon's shoulders seemed to curve upwards and he started to fly away dragging Banchogolemon with him.

"No sweat. Also it was pretty impressive you taking on Banchogolemon like that so if you are ever in the Badlands look me up I'll give you a job." He then increased speed and was soon nothing but a dark speck on the horizon. Beelzemon for a moment could simply just stare somewhat processing the strange encounter. Eventually he remembered he was in that fight because other Digimon were in danger and turned back to see if they were still around.

"Hey guess everything is alright now you at all hur..urkk." He was quickly interrupted by the Angewomon colliding against him and wrapping him in a hug that felt like a chokehold.

".. And that is how we first met Beelzemon. After that he was nice enough to escort us to the next town and we would encounter eatchother on and off after that." Back in the present Angewomon had finished her story of her perception on that day's events. The Tamer's and Beelzemon had all been taken to sitting in a circle amongst the caravan to listen to the holy Digimon's story of how they knew their friend. After she'd finished Takato was the first to speak up.

"So ma'am what exactly is Yggdrasil?" The others all nodded in agreement though the level of interest varied amongst them. Angewomon gasped slightly as if surprised at the question before clasping her hands in front of her and take a breath as if preparing to give a long speech.

"Yggdrasil is the mother of all Digimon a being even higher than the sovereign themselves. She was the one who through her love brought about the first of our kind. She was also the one at great cost to herself first defeated the Chaos when it attacked a young digital world." She made a grand sweeping gesture at the statue in the center pointing in particular at the human figure in it.

"Unfortunately after that great battle she was weak and as such sought out humanity. She asked them to help rebuild her world while she slumbered to regain her great power. We believe though that too many Digimon lost sight of their mother and as such our world fell into savagery and making her ashamed of us and not will to interfere when Chaos rose again. "She rose to the air slightly as her oration came to a finish.

"So we spread her love hoping to prove to her that we Digimon have changed and that she will return to bring salvation." At that all the various Digimon around gave slight cheers to that before going about their business. The various humans were showing various levels of having paid attention. Takato was leaning forwards somewhat , Henry appeared to be writing down notes in his PDA, Suzy was trying to read what he was typing, Rika seemed neutral, and the duo of Kazu and Kenta seemed to have stopped paying attention halfway through. Angewomon clapped her hands together bringing all of their attention back to her.

"Anyways I'm sure there are many exciting things in store for us so why don't we all get ready for we are going to be moving out soon. Yet could you be dears and mind helping us?" The various Tamers and Beelzemon nod, Kenta having to elbow Kazu who was about to object, and rise to help the caravan so they could be on their way.

Ok so not much progression of the plot this time and more set up with exposition garnish. Though luck did let me use the flashback scene not only to pepper in a bit of action. Still next time we see the Tamers the caravan is going to be moving and each Tamer should be getting a scene to have. As always leave a review if you like and if you have a question send it my way and I can answer it at the end of next chapter.