Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Connections Revealed ❯ Tamers and Digidestined part 3 ( Chapter 10 )

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TAMERS AND DIGIDESTINED PART 3:

ENTER THE DARK ANGEL OF LIGHT

BY HOWLING WOLF

Takato was bored. Massively bored. Tai had told him that until Izzy and Ken could find a way back for them that he and Rika would have to stay inside. Takato had agreed that it would be safer, but now he found himself without anything to do.

`Well almost nothing.' Takato thought spotting a pad of paper and a pencil. Picking them up Takato began drawing. Randomly at first, but soon the images began to resemble the digidestined. Rika walked out of the kitchen with a sandwich in hand. Seeing that Takato was drawing Rika snuck up quietly behind him.

To her amazement the image was of them and the digidestined. It had even had Calumon in it.

"Wow goggle head that's really good." Said Rika.

Takato merely nodded, too caught up in his current activity to really pay attention. Rika shook her head. `Stupid goggle head.' She thought with a smile as she walked back to the kitchen.

Little did the two tamers know that plans had already been made to wreck the small peace that they had at the moment.

Overhead of the city flew a slightly frustrated virus. Lady Devimon growled. She could not believe how hard it was to find two children in a city this size. Try incredibly hard. However Lady Devimon knew that she couldn't return without Matsuki.

"Just where could this human be?" Lady Devimon muttered.

It would help if she could just terrorize some of the humans to find out what she wanted. But with so many digidestineds now all over the world, such tactics would not work.

"Enjoy your freedom while you have it, Takato Matsuki. Because soon we shall have you."

Impmon watched silently as Henry talked to Sora and Mimi. He hoped Terriermon was right about them knowing Takato. If they did it would make the job a lot easier. Suddenly Impmon looked up at the sky.

`Nothing. Strange I coulda sworn I sensed another digimon.' He thought.

Throughout all of this Palmon and Biyomon were watching the virus digimon cautiously.

"Henry you do know that you a virus traveling with your group right?" said Sora.

"Impmon? He's okay. Just don't get him mad." Replied Henry.

"Oh, why is that?"

Henry shuddered at the memory of Beelzemon. "Trust me you don't want to know."

Sora looked at him puzzled. "Then why is he traveling with you?"

"You can thank Takato for that. Speaking of which, just where is Takato?" asked Henry.

"He's over at Tai and Kari's. We thought it might not be a good idea for Takato to be out on the streets." Sora said.

"You're probably right. Impmon, why are you staring at the sky?" Henry asked, now noticing Impmon's strange behavior.

"Thought I saw somethin'. So are we gonna go surprise Goggles or what?" said Impmon.

Lady Devimon looked down at the group of humans and digimon beneath her thoughtfully. `Interesting, the one virus in the group almost spotted me. Still if those two digidestined did indeed know Takato Matsuki's whereabouts it would befit me to follow them.' Lady Devimon decided.

Totally unaware of the danger above them, Sora, Mimi, and the tamers headed for the park's exit. Impmon kept looking over his shoulder. `Okay that's it! I know someone's up there.' He thought. `And I think it's time I met `em.'

Impmon jumped on top of Grani and digivolved to his mega form. Sora blinked in surprise. One minute she was talking to Henry about Takato, and the next a tall biker digimon was standing in their midst. Next to her Henry paled. Why had Impmon gone mega?

"Beelzemon?" asked Henry.

"We've got company up there." Beelzemon said pointing up to the sky.

"Are you sure? I mean I don't see anything." Said Henry.

"I'm positive. You guys go ahead. Grani and I will keep our friend busy." Said Beelzemon.

Without further argument Grani blasts off into the sky. The sudden launch nearly threw Beelzemon off. But he soon regained his balance. Looking around, Beelzemon soon spotted who had been spying on him and the others.

"Well this is interesting." Said Lady Devimon.

"For you maybe. Alright lady why are you spying on me and my friends?" asked Beelzemon.

Lady Devimon laughed. Friends, he said. Imagine a virus digimon being friends with digidestined. The concept was so strange to her that Lady Devimon began laughing even more. This only served to irritate Beelzemon.

"Huh. What's so funny?" he asked.

"A virus and a digidestined being friends what nonsense." Said Lady Devimon.

Beelzemon merely glared at her. This lady was getting on his nerves. Time to send her on her way. Pulling out his guns, Beelzemon aimed them at Lady Devimon. Lady Devimon watched the guns nervously. She hadn't expected such a reaction from a fellow virus.

"Listen lady, I don't care if you're a virus or not. Nobody insults who I make friends with." Growled Beelzemon.

"Well then, perhaps we shall continue our conversation another time." Lady Devimon as she dove past him.

Beelzemon watched her fly away. He knew that he should have deleted her, but at the moment he was more worried about how Takato was doing. Besides Beelzemon had a feeling that he and Lady Devimon would meet again.

"And the next time we do, your data is mine. C'mon Grani, let's go catch up with the others." Beelzemon said.

"Henry are you sure that we should have left Beelzemon behind back there?" asked Jeri.

"It'll be fine Jeri. Beelzemon can take care of himself." Said Henry.

"Besides a champion digimon can fight better than a rookie." Said Biyomon.

"Hey toots who are you calling a champion." Impmon said hopping off Grani.

Leomon decided he had best interfere before Impmon did something that they all might regret.

"Excuse me, but won't Grani bring us too much attention?" he asked.

Henry and the others looked at each other. Leomon did raise a good point. With Grani among their group, they were going to standout quite a bit.

"Hey maybe Grani can home in on Takato by himself." Suggested Kenta.

"If he could do that then we would have been half way to Takato by now." Snorted Kazu.

As if to spite Kazu's very remark, Grani began to make a series of beeps. All the humans merely looked at the machine dragon digimon confused. Impmon however walked over to Grani.

"Say that again." He said.

Grani repeated the noise he had made before. Impmon nodded in satisfaction.

"He says he can follow Takato's digital trail. So here's what we'll do. I'll go with Grani and the rest of you can head by foot." Said Impmon.

"Fine, but try not to cause any trouble." Said Sora.

Impmon grinned. "Trouble? Who me?"

Henry just shook his head as Impmon and Grani left. Not causing trouble was just not in Impmon's nature.

**At the Kamiyas'**

Takato looked up from his sketching. He had thought he had heard something. Straining his ears, Takato listened carefully. Rika muttering while watching TV. Nope that wasn't it. Knock, knock. There that was it. Someone was knocking on the door.

Wondering who it was, Takato opened the apartment's door. Only to be greeted by the grinning faces of Kazu and Kenta.

"Gaaa! What are you guys doing here?" asked Takato.

"Rescuing you chumly, what else. Where's Rika?" said Kazu walking into the apartment.

To Takato's surprise several more of his friends followed suit.

"How?" Takato managed to ask after a moment.

Before Henry could answer, Rika walked in to see who Takato was talking to.

"Brainiac. If you are here then…"

"Yes Rika I am here as well." Renamon said appearing next to Rika.

Takato could not help but smile as he watched Rika throw herself into Renamon's embrace. Seeing the two of them together again brought a smile to Takato's eyes. It also brought back some painful memories of his own partner. Henry watched his friend's reaction. Although Takato was smiling there was a shadow of sadness in his eyes.

"Hey Takato you all right?" Henry asked.

"Yeah. Just remembering that's all." Said Takato.

Henry nodded in understanding. Then a thought occurred you him where was Impmon and Grani.

**Impmon and Grani**

The two digimon in question were at that moment pondering a similar question. One that involved not where they were, but in which direction they needed to go.

"Are you sure this is the right way?" asked Impmon.

This was the third time the imp had asked that particular question. The reason being that for the last fifteen minutes Grani had yet to reach Takato.

"I thought you said that you could track the goggle head down. So what's the hold up?"

\\ There are two signals. I am uncertain which one to follow. One of them must be Takato and the other his d-arc. One of the signals is very close. In fact we should be almost on top of it. // said Grani.

Impmon frowned. He didn't know much about digivices, but he did know that the tamers never let theirs out of their sight. `Dis bears some investigating.' Thought Impmon. Looking down Impmon saw two humans walking below them. A blonde and a brunette. But it was what was in the blonde's hand that caught Impmon's attention. Takato's digivice!

**TK and Kari**

"This must be some digivice if it stumps even Izzy." TK said looking at the digivice in his hand.

The two of them had just recently left Ken's after picking up Takato's d-arc from Izzy. Both geniuses had been perplexed by the complex programming of the d-arc.

Kari nodded. "It's probably because of its connection to Takato. After all they are both unique."

"Maybe, but I get the feeling it could be something more." Said TK.

"Pardon me but that digivice doesn't belong to you digidestined." Lady Devimon said floating down in front of them.

Both TK and Kari paled when they saw the fallen angel. The last time they had encountered Lady Devimon she had been working for Daemon. And if Takato was right then there was a good chance that she still was. Up above them Impmon frowned. `Great it's the bat lady again. Well if she wants Takato's d-arc then she's in for a nasty surprise of her own.' He thought with a grin.

"Now children let's not be difficult. Hand over that digivice and I shall let you go. Once of course, you tell me where Takato Matsuki is." Lady Devimon said with a cold smile.

TK and Kari had already been backing away slowly from Lady Devimon. Now however they found themselves frozen where they stood. Unfortunately for the two digidestined they had left their digimon over at Ken's. Lady Devimon's smile widened as she closed in on her prey. The look in her eyes said it all, I am going to enjoy this. And she would have, had a clawed hand not suddenly grabbed her by the shoulder.

Lady Devimon snarled as she turned to see who had stopped her. Only to gasp as a knee was shoved fiercely into her stomach. Dropping to her knees the female virus glared up at the grinning face of Beelzemon.

"You!" she said in surprise.

"Yeah me. Surprise bat lady, but if those two are friends of Takato's then you're not touching them." Said Beelzemon.

Both Kari and TK looked at each other as though asking: who is this digimon? Beelzemon took a momentary glance at them and growled. Why were those two still standing there?

"Don't just stand there you two. Get on Grani." Said Beelzemon.

"It won't help them. Or you. My master will have Takato Matsuki." Lady Devimon said as she stood up.

Beelzemon readied himself for an attack, but felt a wave of disappointment when Lady Devimon left without further conflict. Shrugging, Beelzemon de-digivolved back to Impmon. Walking up to Grani, Impmon grinned at TK and Kari.

"All right Grani let's get out of here before the bat lady decides to come back with friends." Said Impmon.

He then looked at TK and Kari who were sitting behind him.

"You two might wanna to hold on." He advised.

TK and Kari barely had to time to follow Impmon's advice when Grani took off. Impmon sniggered as he heard the humans startled shouts. `Ah dat's music to my ears. Now to find out what these two know about Takato.'

"Now then, why do you have Takato's d-arc?" asked Impmon.

"Why do you want to know?" TK said defensively.

Impmon laughed. This kid had spunk.

"Easy pal, Takato is a friend of mine. In fact Grani and I were supposed to meet with the others and him. Lucky for you we got side tracked."

**The digital world, Southern quadrant**

Azulongmon glared at Zhuaquiomon. He could not believe that his fellow sovereign could have behaved so irresponsible. Not only did they have the chaos to fight, but now they had Daemon to contend with as well. Azulongmon only hoped that the digidestined would be able to handle the powerful mega.

"Zhuaquiomon I can not believe that you allowed this to happen. Not only has daemon escaped, but now he has the catalyst with him." Said Azulongmon.

"Do not blame me Azulongmon. Several of my devas were defeated by that hybrid mockery. If Daemon wants him then so be it. The catalyst is the only thing that is important right now. Which is why I have sent the remaining devas to bring it back." Zhuaquiomon said.

Azulongmon shook his head. Zhuaquiomon simply didn't realize how serious the situation truly was. If Daemon got a hold of either Mastuki or the catalyst then it would not matter if they defeated the chaos. Azulongmon blinked as Zhuaquiomon's words finally registered.

`No! The digidestined must be warned!' thought Azulongmon as he hurried back to the eastern quadrant.

**Digital world, the eastern quadrant**

Daemon was not happy. He had been watching Lady Devimon's progress to capture the Matsuki boy. `That Beelzemon is proving to be an annoyance. Obviously Lady Devimon is not going to work. Perhaps it is time I sent Skull Satamon.' Daemon thought to himself.

"Skull Satamon I want you to help Lady Devimon." Instructed Daemon.

Skull Satamon nodded and bowed before his master, a wicked grin on his face.

**Takato and the rest of the tamers**

"Wow. I can't believe you guys are really here." Said Takato.

"Well believe it chumly." Laughed Kazu.

Sora smiled as she watched the happy scene before her. It was obvious that Takato overjoyed to be reunited with his friends. But she did wonder what had happened to Takato's other two friends, Impmon and Grani.

A tap on the window soon caught her attention. Looking outside Sora gasped. There outside the window riding on Grani was Impmon, Kari, and TK. Opening the window Sora stepped back as all but Grani came inside. Takato smiled as he saw the new arrivals.

"What took you so long Impmon?" asked Henry.

"I ran into these two being harassed by that Lady Devimon I fought earlier." Said Impmon.

"Lady Devimon? This could be bad. She didn't happen to say what she wanted did she?" asked Sora.

"Oh yeah. Kept going on about how her master was going to have the goggle head there." Said Impmon.

Takato groaned. He knew very well just who Lady Devimon's master was. And the thought of being brought back to him made Takato ill.

"What's every one doing here?" asked a weak voice.

Takato looked down to see a still weak Calumon standing by his feet. Seeing how weak Calumon still was made Takato frown. He was afraid that their encounter with Daemon had been too much for the small digimon. Before Takato could enquire how Calumon was feeling the opened window suddenly shattered.

As the glass and wood splinters scattered across the room everyone ducked for cover. Outside Lady Devimon smiled. Good she had finally found the one she seeked. And what luck, she could torture a few digidestined as well.

"Puwazon!" the attack hit its target dead on. Calumon never even had time to scream as the attack ripped through him. Takato's d-arc suddenly came to life.

CATALYST MERGE EXECUTED

Calumon's data was suddenly merged with Takato. A bright light surrounded Takato's entire body. Takato gasped as he felt the immenshed rush of power within him.

To Lady Devimon's surprise Takato digivolved as he leapt straight for her. Gallantmon's momentum threw both him and Lady Devimon all the way to the ground. Growling in anger Gallantmon charged his lance to full power. One of his friends had just been deleted before his eyes and Gallantmon planned to pay back the one responsible.

But before Gallantmon could attack.

"Nail bone!"

The attack hit Gallantmon in the back throwing him off balance. The still shaken Lady Devimon looked up to see Skull Satamon grinning wickedly at her. Lady Devimon felt a shiver run down her spine. There could be only one reason why Skull Satamon was here now. Lord Daemon had decided that her time of usefulness was over with.

"Looks like I shall be the one to deliver the hybrid to Lord Daemon. But first I think I shall have a quick snack with your data! Skull hammer!" said Skull Satamon.

Lady Devimon's eyes widened as the attack neared her. Then the world went white.

TO BE CONTINUED…