I do not own Digimon in any way, shape or form. I do however own my OC and his gear (not the concepts behind them)

Lowering a wing, Airdramon said, "Climb on and I'll take you to the mural, hang on to my horns so you don't fall." Once they were on, Airdramon took off and said, "While Candlemon and I were looking for some supplies to help rebuild after Crowmon's rampage we found ruins much older than the village, the only part still standing was the mural and engraving on it. It took time and consulting Sorcerymon a few villages away to actually translate what it said. Now hold on, I'm gonna start going down since we're right above the ruins." Landing, Airdramon let them climb off before calling, "Hey, Candlemon I found someone with a device like the one shown on the mural. Are you there?" They then heard an annoyed grunt followed by someone saying, "I was busy trying to make sense of the mural's engraving before you started shouting. Anyway you said something about finding the device?" He nodded, "Yeah, the kid was brought here from another world and the Coronamon next to him was apparently waiting for him. Didn't you say the mural mentioned something like that?" Stepping out from behind some rubble the digimon said, "It did, but I didn't think much about it."

Turning to them he said, "Well, I'm Candlemon. So what do you know?" Korogra shook his head, "Not much really. All I know is that I was brought here and given the device for a reason, and somehow it let Coronamon digivolve from Sunmon." Candlemon sighed, "That doesn't help. Maybe because you're from another world you can make sense of the engraving more than I can. Come on, I'll show you." After going behind the rubble Candlemon walked from they found the mural, seeing the cracks and scorch marks they turned to Candlemon with questioning expressions. Suddenly looking uncomfortable it said, "I uh… I lost my temper because I wasn't able to figure out what the mural was meant to show, but the engraving is still intact." Clearing its throat, it said, "Anyway the engraving reads: From beyond the gate nine souls will appear and unite with long awaited bonds wielding devices holding the digital world's will. Separate they may begin, together they will join to battle the undead king and the masters of darkness only by tapping into the powers of courage, friendship, love, knowledge, sincerity, reliability, hope, light, and spirit will they prevail. The key lies in shared memory."

Candlemon then said, "When Airdramon mentioned you were brought from another world and Coronamon was waiting for you I managed to piece together that there's supposed to be eight others like you two and the device is called a digivice but the rest doesn't make sense to me." Korogra thought for a moment then said, "Well the 'separate they may begin' part clearly means the nine of us won't be together when everything starts because I was the only one that showed up here while the others are probably in different areas of the Digital World. My best guess is that the 'undead king' and 'masters of darkness' are actually digimon that we'll have to fight. I have no idea what the thing about the powers is talking about but since nine powers are listed each of us will tap into one of them, now 'the key lies in shared memory' makes me think that all nine of us saw something that led to us having a connection to Digimon." Just as he finished, a screech rang out and from the nearby trees a spider-like digimon charged out screaming, "Why does it hurt? It hurts so much!"

The four of them dove aside as it rammed into the mural, looking at the digivice Korogra was surprised when it showed the digimon's data, he read, "Dokugumon: a champion level insectoid digimon, with its eight legs it's hard to escape if it chases you. Its Poison Thread attack sends out webs that can trap digimon while its Poison Cobweb is a blast of poison." Standing up, Candlemon shouted, "Lava Loogie!" Before spitting a fireball at Dokugumon's face but that only served to make it mad enough to shoot its Poison Thread and stick Candlemon to some rubble. Airdramon rushed forward with its Megalo Spark only to get a face full of Poison Cobweb and fall down leaving Korogra and Coronamon behind, glancing down at his digivice he thought, 'a device holding the will of the Digital world Huh?' he then ran at Dokugumon while holding the digivice up hoping it would expel whatever is causing it pain, light flashed from the digivice and pushed a strand of shadow from Dokugumon's head but before Korogra had the chance to celebrate he was pinned down by its front legs knocking the digivice just out of reach. Seeing this Coronamon felt dread close in on him as he rushed to try and help his partner in any way he could, pushing himself harder in hopes of getting there before Dokugumon bites down.

As he ran he started to feel strength welling up in his body, soon the strength surged in a familiar way and while engulfed in fire he shouted, "Coronamon digivolve to… Firamon!" Jumping out of the fire was a full-grown lion with wings, growling Firamon focused his power onto his forehead before firing a blast with a roar of "Fira Bomb!" Which knocked Dokugumon off Korogra who, as he got up, said, "Well, you being bigger and having wings will make traveling a little easier." Firamon nodded, "Yeah, at least until I turn back to Coronamon. But for now let's squash this bug." Before pouncing on it with burning claws and starting to slash, Korogra grabbed his digivice from the ground and ran over to them and shined it at Dokugumon's face long enough for the strand of darkness to crystallize into a shard that was ejected from its neck before shattering. Feeling it go limp Firamon backed off to stand by his partner in case it attacks again, Dokugumon groaned then shook its head saying, "Ugh, what happened? Feels like I got hit by a Trailmon." Airdramon coughed up the poison cobweb and said, "That's what we want to know. You just rushed out from the trees screaming about being in pain, just like Crowmon." Dokugumon scratched its head before saying, "You know I don't quite remember what happened. One moment I'm minding my own business the next it feels like something is stabbing me in the neck and then nothing but pain until I wake up here."

Korogra said, "It had to have been that crystal that came out of your neck." Feeling the energy from before leaving him, Firamon reverted to Coronamon and he asked, "What crystal?" Korogra shrugged, "I'm not quite sure what it was, but when I shined the digivice at Dokugumon a string of darkness started leaking from its neck. Then when you were holding it down I used the digivice again and the string turned into a crystal shard that shattered once it was knocked out of Dokugumon." Candlemon folded its arms before saying, "A dark crystal Huh? Hm… maybe Sorcerymon knows more, they always have insight into mystical things most of us have no clue about." Airdramon then said, "I can guide you to Sorcerymon's village but right now I'm exhausted." Dokugumon spoke up, "I can get you guys some food while you rest, it's kinda my fault you're all in such bad shape so think of it as an apology." Coronamon nodded, "Thanks, Korogra was right thinking traveling will be easier now that I can digivolve. Only problem is how draining digivolving was, hopefully the more often I do the less exhausted I will be when I turn back."