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Right...onto the next chapter. It's a bit shorter, and I pretty much just let it write itself out...

Should probably put a disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. If I did...all the Japanese songs would be dubbed into English too.

The Pit

"Sora?" Yolei's voice was small with lingering panic.

The older girl was long in replying. "…what's up?"

"What are we going to do?"

Again a pause. Yolei looked up at the older girl to find Sora staring off, lost in her thoughts. Her expression wasn't pleasant. Yolei nudged Sora to get her attention.

"Hey, weren't you listening to me?"

Sora turned to the younger girl.

"We're stuck here in this hole and you're off staring into space!" Yolei continued brashly. "Do you have any idea how dangerous this place can be?"

Hawkmon turned from his vigil, mumbling, "Yolei…not again…"

His partner ignored him. "I can't believe this! We were just here a couple days ago! It's never going to stop, is it? We'll just escape, and then it'll drag us right back. What's the point?"

Yolei paused at the pained look on Sora's face, and then put her face in her palms.

"Rrrrgh…I can't stand it," she growled. "I'm sorry Sora, but I just don't see the point. What are we supposed to do?"

Again, Yolei waited for an answer. Sora had yet to give her a full reply. It was getting frustrating, as if Yolei wasn't before. She didn't push this time, seeing the older girl's expression. What was on her mind that was shutting her up so well? They were trapped in the middle of a crater with no way of knowing if they would be attacked the next moment, and still Sora didn't have anything to say.

There came a gasp from Biyomon, and Yolei jerked her attention to her. "Sora! Beneath you!" The digimon cried out, pointing.

Yolei then shot a look to where Sora was sitting, and saw the dark circle in the rocks. She leapt to her feet, but the ground opened up, wide enough to drag all five of them in. Sora's dismayed groan was the first thing that reached her ears, even before Yolei herself started screaming. Despite her panicked mind, she caught a glimpse of black fog that began swirling around Sora. The fall wasn't far, but it still hurt when she hit the ground.

The younger girl had recovered herself quickly, her full concern centred on Sora. She looked around frantically, soon spotting the other girl cowering silently against the wall. Yolei almost screamed again when she saw the darkness coiling around Sora, seemingly trying to consume her whole. The movement of the black cloud slowed to a stop, and Sora was left in a dark envelope.

Biyomon was by her side immediately. "Oh no! Sora! Not again!"

"Again?" Yolei asked automatically.

The bird digimon turned to Yolei, her eyes sad. "Yes. This has happened to Sora before, but back then Joe and Matt were here to help her get out of it." Biyomon turned to her partner. "Tell me what's wrong, Sora. Please."

The older girl still sat in a cowering position, hiding her face from the others. Approaching, Yolei noticed that the other girl was shivering. She knelt in front of Sora and put her hands on the older one's shoulders. "Hey, Sora. I'm sorry about what I said. I can't think when I get overwhelmed like that."

Sora spoke with a weak voice. "There's so much we have to do, but we can't do it. We're not strong enough. We're lost. We're alone. We have to find TK, and Kari, and Ken. Maybe the others need saving too. I have to do it, but…"

Yolei took comfort in the fact that Sora was even responding, though her words were disheartening. She tried to counter the older girl's dismal statements. "Things always seem worse than they are in situations like ours, I realize that now. Sora, we can do this. It's the darkness. You can't let it get to you."

"How can we do it though? How can we win? All I want now is to go home. There's no place like home."

"Please listen, Sora," Biyomon tried. "We just have to start, even though we don't know what to do or what to look for. We just have to start looking, and soon things will start working out."

"We're trapped now, so we can't even start. We've been losing since the beginning."

Yolei clenched her fists, frustration boiling up within her. Even though moping would probably be the first thing she would do if she found herself trapped in a dark pit, it was exasperating seeing Sora like this. Yolei felt like giving the girl a slap, and probably would have if it weren't for the fact that Sora's face was still covered in her arms.

"Sora! Snap out of it!" She said, reverting to shaking the older girl by the shoulders.

"There's no place like home." Sora took no notice of the movement.

"Awww, the poor girl." A new voice echoed around them, and was followed up by a hiss from Gatomon.

"I know who that is."

"I'm afraid I do too," Hawkmon said in a worrisome voice.

Yolei whipped her head in every direction to locate the source. She hadn't noticed that the pit they were in was more of a tunnel. In one direction was utter darkness, as the other would be if not for the pair of red eyes staring at them. Yolei let out a small cry and held onto Sora tight. She stared hard at the glowing slits.

"Who're you?"

A woman's voice chuckled in return, and a black-clothed figure stepped out into the light. Yolei's jaw dropped in shock and recognition. Of all the digimon she didn't want to meet again, this was one of them. She found herself speechless, which was rather a rare occasion.

Gatomon was the only one who found her voice, and spoke in a low hiss. "It's LadyDevimon."

"That's right," the ultimate smiled wickedly at her prey.

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After looking at my outline...I'd say this is about the halfway point...maybe. I might add a couple chapters later on if needed.