ChSeven

Chapter 7: Memories

Iris closed her eyes tightly as they were sucked into the vortex that joined the digiworld to the real world. Her hair blew about her face, itching her nose. She snapped her eyes open just in time to see the end of the tunnel.

She fell out onto Davis with a thud and a groan. A few seconds later Cody fell out on top of her, and Melodye on top of him and so forth. She groaned from the weight on her back and the elbow in her ribs.

“Get off me…” She heard Davis’ mumbled protest. He struggled to get out from underneath the pile of people, but his efforts were in vain.

“I can’t there’s too many people on top of me.” Iris replied. At that moment someone shifted and the air was pushed from her lungs causing her to let out a soft cry.

“Sorry guys.” Ken said jumping off the mound of human bodies.

“You’re crushing my leg!” Clive yelled at someone, “Ow someone just kicked me!”

“Oh sorry that was me.” TK apologized, dragging himself out from under the group. Because of this shift of weight the group went tumbling over each other, leaving Iris lying on Davis back. She quickly realized the position she was in and jumped off him, standing on his arm in the process.

“Ow dammit!” He cursed sitting up and rubbing his arm.

“Oh god I’m sorry.” Iris said kneeling down next to him, “You’re not hurt are you?”

“No I just got my arm crushed, but it doesn’t hurt.” He retorted sarcastically.

“Oh get over it Davis you’re such a cry baby.” Kari said helping Iris up.

“No I’m not.” He pouted standing up and rubbing his arm.

“Yeah Davis isn’t a cry baby, you’re the cry baby.” Veemon said poking his tongue out at Kari.

“Guy’s we don’t have time to fight, lets just go.” Cody said.

“He’s right, we won’t get anything done if we just sit around and fight.” TK agreed.

“Yeah lets go!” Davis shouted, but his enthusiasm soon changed. He scanned the group, obviously deep in thought, “Hold no a second. Add three carry add the four.” He mumbled pointing to each of the group members, “We’re missing someone.” The group looked about in confusion.

“Yolie.” Cody pointed out, “Yolie’s not here, we must’ve left her behind.”

“What did she just decide she didn’t want to come into the digiworld today?” Davis asked.

“Well she was there when we were at the gate, but I don’t know why she didn’t follow us.” Ken said thoughtfully.

“That’s strange usually Yolie’s really excited about going into the digiworld.” TK said, scratching his chin as if he were rubbing a beard.

Ken spun around urgently, studying the thick forest behind him. A soft rustling noise came from behind him, followed by a low growling noise. He peered into the brush trying to see what was making those noises, but the forest was too thick and black, he could barely see on meter into it.

“What’s the matter Ken?” Wormmon asked looking out into the forest as Ken was, “Is there something there?”

“I don’t know Wormmon, I thought I heard something, but I’m not sure.” He turned around to face the group once again. And once again there was a soft rustle behind him.

He looked over to the rest of the group; they were absorbed in their arguments. He seemed to be the only one who could hear it. He concentrated on the surrounding sounds, blocking out the sounds of the others fighting. There it was again. He heard a low grumble come from his left. He snapped his head in that direction, his eyes carefully studying the blackness. He caught sight of a pale purple, almost black light. It was very hard to see, but it was there.

“Umm guys,” Ken tried, keeping his eyes locked on the purple light. “Guys.”

But they were oblivious to his calls.

“Ken it’s not working.” Wormmon informed him.

“Guys!” He shouted taking his eyes off the light to face the group.

Everyone fell silent at his outbreak. That was the first time Ken had shouted in ages.

“What is it Ken?” Davis asked walking over closer to his friend.

“There’s something out there.” He replied searching the dense forest with his eyes.

Davis stared at Ken’s back a look of amused confusion written across his face.

“I think you’ve just gone a little crazy man.” Davis slapped him on the back, “You know, you can survive without Yolie.”

“What?” Ken stared at Davis in shock. His face had gone a bright crimson red,

“It-it’s not that, there’s something out there.”

“Then why are you blushing?” He asked smirking.

“I-I…” Ken started pathetically. He stopped when he saw the look of utter horror on Davis face. He knew what was behind him but he dreaded turning around. His body tensed, as a cold shiver ran down his spine.

“Ken.” Davis spat out, staring past him as he slowly backed away, “I hate to point out the obvious but there’s something behind you!”

He gasped in shock at what Ken knew was the intruder’s deathblow. He wanted to move, to jump out of the way, but his body was frozen. He told his legs to move, but they just didn’t respond. He heard a small cry, somewhere in the deep in the back of his mind, but so many fearful thoughts ran through his mind that he barely took any notice.

The next thing he knew he was flying through the air at a high speed. He snapped out of his trance and looked around himself.

“Are you okay Ken?” He heard Stingmon’s familiar voice. He looked up at his savior in gratitude.

“How many times is that now?” He asked smiling up at his digipartner.

**

“Veemon digivolve to… Exveemon.” Veemon stepped out of a familiar column of light that came with the digivolving process. Ankylomon, Arquillamon, Angemon, Megapolarmon and Bakemon joined him shortly after.

“That’s the way, now to kick some digi-butt!” Davis yelled enthusiastically.

The digimon all simultaneously shot their attacks at the huge black spider like digimon.

“What is that thing anyway?” Iris inquired.

“That’s Dokugumon, she’s really bad and really ugly.” Davis replied not taking his eyes off the battle.

Dokugumon managed to guard against some of the attacks, but one of them managed to get through, knocking it down and disabling one of it’s eight huge hairy legs. This enraged it, it’s multiple eyes burned with a black purple rage. It let out a piercing cry and charged straight for Exveemon.

It lunged at him with surprising agility for an overgrown spider. He tried in vain to dodge the oncoming body slam but was too slow. One of the huge spider’s legs knocked him out of the air and was sent crashing to the ground. He landed painfully but managed to stay as Exveemon and not de-digivolve.

Unfortunately Dokugumon had chosen him for it’s next meal. It landed on top of him; it’s legs acting as a cage to keep him from escaping, even if he could. It stared down at him with its ten black eyes; he could almost detect a sort of mocking glint to them.

It bent down bearing it’s huge yellow fangs dripping with black venom. He had to dodge the stray bit of poison that dripped off its fangs, as it acted as an acid. He jumped out of the way of one such droplet and watched as it burned the grass where it had landed. He certainly didn’t want that to happen to him.

“Um guys,” He said, keeping his eyes on the fangs so as not to get caught off guard, “I could use a little help.”

“Come on guys we have to help Exveemon!” Angemon said immediately acting on his words, “Hand of fate.” He yelled pulling his fist back.

A ball of white light surrounded his fist steadily growing bigger as moved in for the attack. He unleashed his holy attack sending the ball hurtling towards Dokugumon. It hit Dokugumon hard on its back but seemed to have no effect.

“Let me try.” Polarmon shouted she jumped in between the spider’s legs and shot her attack straight up at its abdomen. It screamed in pain as the huge icicles polarmon shot sunk into its soft underbelly.

“Wow how did you know that was it’s weak spot?” Ankylomon asked jumping in next to her and swinging his spiked tail up, pushing the icicles in further.

“You gotta know these things.” She yelled back at him, “Hey you guys!” She shouted at Bakemon, Arquillamon and Angemon, “Attack her legs, we’ll get her stomach.”

They immediately followed her instructions shooting their attacks at the spider’s huge long legs.

**

“Melodye let me help!” Flamon pleaded with her digipartner, bouncing up and down to exaggerate her point.

“No Flamon you’re too small you can’t fight.” Melodye said picking up the energetic little ball, “You can’t digivolve yet.”

“I know but I can still do something!” She said squirming in Melodye’s arms, “I have to help him, let me go.” She slipped out of Melodye’s grasp and bounced over to Dokugumon.

“No Flamon, don’t go.” Melodye called after her.

She went to run after her digipartner but was grabbed roughly from behind. She was hauled painfully off the ground by the ribs and was soon flying over her friends. She looked up at her captor, a huge black, purple bird, with really big teeth had grabbed her with it’s huge claws and was lifting her up into the air.

“Help me!” She shouted down to her surprised friends, but they just stood there gawking at her.

“Melodye!” She heard Flamon shout, “Melodye hold on, I’ll save you!”

With those few words Melodye’s Digivice began to glow a blinding white light. A beam of that light shot down towards Flamon, surrounding her with its golden glow.

“Flamon digivolve to…” Time seemed to stop as the light grew brighter and Flamon began to change. She started to grow bigger, forming the shape of a small red bird, “Nichimon.” She finished proudly.

Without even thinking Nichimon was in the air chasing after Melodye’s kidnapper.

She heard a shout behind her and turned to see what it was. There were two other birds exactly the same carrying two of their friends, just like Melodye. She didn’t see who it was because she turned her attention back to her partner Melodye.

“Help me Nichimon.” She pleaded hanging helplessly from the bird’s claws.

“Hold on.” She called flapping her wings as fast as she could to keep up with the huge bird.

“Flame wings!” She shouted. Two balls of fire flew from her wings and hit the digimon on the back. It didn’t have any effect whatsoever; the bird just shrugged it off and continued flying.

“Melodye!” Nichimon called, “It’s too strong for me, I can’t even hurt it.”

“Nichimon follow it, you can do it, I know you can.” Melodye shouted back reaching her free hand out brushing it against Nichimon’s fiery feathers.

**

Clive watched in shock as two huge birds flew don’t, grabbing Cody and Gatomon in the process. Only moments before the same thing had happened to the red haired American girl, one had come down and simply snatched her off the ground.

“Cody!” Ankylomon yelled noticing as his partner was lifted from the ground and taken away.

“Gatomon!” Kari called after her friends. She started running after the birds, but TK held her back.

“Kari, its no use, well just get lost in the forest.” He said.

“Well do something!” She broke out of his grip, but didn’t run any further. She watched helplessly as the huge birds carried off her best friend.

“Angemon, we need your help.” TK yelled keeping his eyes on his friends, “You need to armor digivolve.”

“Um could you just hold on one second.” Angemon replied, wrestling with one of Dokugumon’s legs, “I’m kind of busy.”

“That’s it I’ve had enough of this!” Davis yelled stepping forward, “Ken lets go!” He stood there for a moment then cautiously looked around himself.

“Uh Ken?” He spun around on his heel, looking around the surrounding brush for any signs of his friend.

“Right!” He heard coming from the forest. His digivice started glowing, as did Ken’s who had shown up out of the forest on Stingmon’s back.

“Exveemon.” Exveemon yelled jumping out from under Dokugumon.

“Stingmon.” Stingmon yelled flying over closer to Exveemon.

“DNA digivolve to…” They were both surrounded by the digivices holy white light as they digivolved together. When the light faded standing in the place of the both of them was the huge armor cover dragon Paildramon.

“Paildramon.” It finished.

It immediately jumped into action flying through Dokugumon’s legs and positioning itself under its stomach. It braced itself on the ground and effortlessly picked the giant spider up. He flew up in the air over the tops of the tall trees. Everybody craned their necks back to see where Paildramon had disappeared to but the midday sun shone brightly shielding him from sight.

What they did see though was not what they expected. A large shadow blocked the sun, allowing them clear vision of what was coming towards them. They all yelled and jumped out of the way as the huge Dokugumon came crashing to the ground. It let out a painful cry as it landed blood and acid flowing freely from it’s many cuts. It writhed in pain for a few more seconds before falling still. Bakemon floated carefully over to it and prodded it with a stick it had picked up.

“Bakemon!” Clive yelled at his digimon, “That’s disgusting.” Bakemon backed away and changed back into Wraithmon. As she did it slowly started to dissolve into data and disappearing into the sky.

“Alright way to go Paildramon!” Davis yelled running over to the huge dragon. It began to glow once again, but this time it shrunk into two small balls.

“We don’t have time to celebrate Davis, we need to find the others!” TK yelled searching the sky.

“Angemon can you armor digivolve?”

“I’ll try.” He easily changed back into Patamon.

“Digi armor energize.” TK yelled holding out his D3.

“Patamon armor digivolve to…” Patamon started feeling the digivices warm light around him.

The digivice gave him strength, and with that he started to change. First his legs grew bigger, large wings sprouted from his back. Followed by golden armor fixing itself around his body.

“Pegasusmon, flying hope.” He said once the digivolving process had completed. TK jumped on his back as he took off into the sky.

Kari ran after them for a moment, tears filling her eyes.

“Take me too.” She pleaded, but they were already in the sky and out of earshot.

“It’s alright Kari, I’m sure well find them.” Iris comforted her.

**

“Ha, Ha your evilness.” Black Gatomon stared into Witchmon’s crystal ball, her eyes lit up with a feline joy, “It worked, the plan went off without a hitch.”

Witchmon sat next to her a malicious grin plastered on her face.

“This is perfect, now that I’ve got those kids out of the way I can fulfill my plan to take over the digiworld.” She cackled happily.

“Just remember mistress, not to underestimate these kids. They are powerful.” Gatomon said not taking her eyes off the ball.

“I know, but once they fall into our next trap they’ll be helpless.”

Gatomon shifted her attention to Witchmon. She was staring at the ball with a childish delight.

Gatomon knew they would not prevail, she had grown up on the story of how that digidestined brought ruin to anyone that tried to destroy the digiworld. It had something to do with the things they called digivices. They were a preserver of the white light, and therefor a weapon against evil and darkness.

She had seen once in a book in the library the legend of the white light. How in the beginning, when the world was first being made all the worlds were connected. The digiworld, the human world, the dark world the light world, and a few others she couldn’t remember, they were all joined together.

There was a mighty kingdom that ruled over all the worlds. She couldn’t remember the name of that either but she saw a picture of it in the same book.

It was a magnificent place; all digimon and humans lived in peace together. And the palace was a sight to be seen; constructed by the most talented architects in all worlds the palace was made of pure diamond. In the sunlight the many peaks that adorned the palace would glow with the colors of the rainbow.

The king of this land was part human and part Nilkan, or something like that.

The Nilkan’s were the people of light, the mightiest of all the seven worlds.

Now the king, he also was someone to be remembered. ‘The kindest, most gentle man to ever grace the seven worlds’ was what the book had said. To her though he just seemed like some soppy old man. They say he ruled the seven worlds with a firm but gentle hand.

One day, as the legend has it, the Nilkan’s offered the king a gift. It was a stone that shone with the light of the Nilkan people. They say it had magical powers that healed people’s wounds and so on, so everyone in the kingdom worshipped it. It was the last light of those people that ever shone.

As the legend goes, the ruler of the dark world got jealous. Because the dark world was not really considered part of the kingdom, even though the leader held a seat in the council, they still didn’t consider it part of them. The leader of the dark world, Lucavi, or something was enraged with the Nilkan’s, the king favored them and he found it very unfair. He spent many years plotting the destruction of the Nilkan’s.

And one day it happened. Over the years he had formed an army that could challenge even that of the king. He caught the Nilkan’s by surprise, and being a peaceful race, they did not have the resources to fight back. They were crushed in a matter of days; Many Nilkan’s were killed or taken hostage.

Once he had destroyed them, he moved on to the kingdom. He wreaked havoc among the peaceful kingdom, bringing it to ruins, despite the king’s attempts to fight back. His henchmen burned and destroyed what ever they could leaving the kingdom broken and defenseless.

Lucavi killed the king and took the throne. His tyranny lasted for many years, that was until they interfered. In those years each world had chosen one or two of their best warriors to fight against the evil tyrant. They rose up against him in a mighty battle for freedom.

They managed to beat him, but they couldn’t kill him, for he was immortal. They used all their powers to seal him away in limbo, but it wasn’t enough. So in order to seal him away they had to use all the help they could get. All seven worlds lent the destined their powers and in doing that they succeeded in locking away the evil fiend forever.

Unfortunately to keep him in there the worlds had to break apart, and form a sort of wall around the limbo like a box, sealing him in there.

After that had been recorded no more was ever said about the magnificent kingdom or those ten warriors that brought the tyrant’s rule to an end. All worlds lost contact, though it was rumored that there was a passage, a way to get from one to the other, it’s just that nobody’s ever found it.

Maybe these kids were the warriors, why else would they be carrying digivices, or light preservers? Even thought there are only nine of them and there was ten warriors, they just have to be.

“Mistress Gatomon.” She heard the small scared voice of one of her minion digimon. She shook her head getting those thoughts out of her head. There was no way those digidestined could survive her brilliant plan.

“Are the preparations ready?” She asked jumping off Witchmon’s shoulder and running up to the shivering Numemon.

“Uh- um yes mistress Gatomon.” It stuttered.

“Which direction are they heading?”

“South east, mistress.”

“Beautiful, make sure everything’s perfect, I will not have those digidestined get in my way you hear?” She asked poking the slimy digimon with one of her long claws. It squealed and backed away, shielding itself from her.

“Yes mistress Gatomon.” It said hysterically.

“Now get out of my sight.” She said turning her back on it and walking back over to he throne.

“Yes your evilness.” It said backing out of the room.

“Are you sure this is going to work Gatomon?” Witchmon asked letting Gatomon back up on to her shoulder.

“Of course I know its going to work, I bet right at this moment they’re in hysterics, they’re falling apart by the seems.”

**

“Did you see them?” Kari yelled running over to TK and Pegasusmon, “Did you see Gatomon?”

TK let out a long sigh, avoiding eye contact with Kari,

“We couldn’t see them anywhere, those black Birdramon’s were too fast, and even if they dropped them, the forest is too thick I couldn’t wee anything.”

Kari’s eyes started to fill up with tears at the news. She sniffed once, trying to keep her tears at bay.

“What if something happens to her?” She said staring past TK into the forest.

“Don’t worry Kari, she’ll be okay, we’ve been through worse and we’ve always gotten out of it.” TK said wrapping his arms around her, letting her cry onto his shirt.

“I hope she’s alright.” Kari sobbed.

Davis glared at TK’s back, that should be him there comforting Kari. He had to put a stop to this.

“Well we’re not gonna find her by just standing here, lets go look for them.”

“Davis you’re so insensitive.” TK scalded.

“No he’s right,” Kari said pulling away from TK and drying her eyes with the back of her hand, “We’re not going to get anything accomplished by just standing here.”

“That’s the way, crying isn’t gonna solve anything.” Davis said slapping Kari on the back.

He led Kari into the forest, the same direction the Birdramon had gone. He turned around to face TK, a mocking look of satisfaction in his eyes. TK just rolled his eyes and followed after them.

**

Cody held on tightly to the Birdramon’s claws. Even though he wanted to go back to his friends, or at least get back on the ground; he didn’t want to fall down. He pulled his eyes away from the forest below, trying his best to clear his mind. He saw the Birdramon in front of him, next to it was another smaller red bird. That must be Melodye’s digimon, but why was she just following the other bird, why wasn’t she trying to save Melodye.

He then turned to the Birdramon behind him. In its claws was a struggling Gatomon. He hadn’t really had time to see who else the Birdramon caught, but now. Why had it taken Gatomon and not one of the people? She looked up and saw Cody looking at her.

“Cody!” She called, “We have to get down.”

“I know, but how?” He called back.

“Call for Melodye!” She yelled, “Get Nichimon!”

Cody nodded his head and turned back to the other Birdramon.

“Melodye!” He shouted at the top of his lungs. For a moment nothing happened, but she then turned around, “Get Nichimon!”

She knotted her eyebrows in confusion.

“What?” She yelled to him.

“Get Nichimon!” She still didn’t understand but luckily Nichimon did. She slowed down and waited for Cody’s ride to catch up.

“What is it.” She asked, now flying parallel with Cody.

“Gatomon.” He said pointing behind him with his free hand.

She slowed down again until Gatomon’s Birdramon caught up with her. He watched them for a moment while they conversed. He couldn’t hear what they were saying but he knew what Gatomon’s plan was.

A moment later Nichimon flew up and faced the Birdramon head on. She stared it in the eye for a second then without notice shot her attack straight at it’s face. It howled in pain and swooped down closer to the trees, yet it didn’t let gatomon go.

Nichimon did the same thing again, shooting the black Birdramon in the face. This time however it started ascending into the sky. It didn’t seem to notice the Birdramon holding Cody and ran straight into it. The bird holding Cody screamed in rage and rammed the other. Gatomon’s Birdramon was enraged. It flew high in the sky and shot it’s meteor wing attack at the bird holding Cody. Seeing the other Birdramon’s attack come flying towards it, the other Birdramon dodged it.

The two fiery balls soared closely past Cody’s head, nearly singing his clothes and hair, and slamming into the back of the Birdramon holding Melodye.

It stopped in mid flight and turned around to face the other two birds. It stared at them for a moment before unleashing it’s own attack. The attack was sent flying towards Cody’s Birdramon. It quickly forgot about him and dropped him into the forest below.

It shot it’s own attack back at that same Birdramon. Melodye’s Birdramon also dropped its burden and concentrated on fighting the assaulting Birdramon. The Birdramon carrying Gatomon watched on as they battled it out against each other. It too decided it would join in. quickly forgetting about Gatomon it dropped her into the forest and joined in the death match.

**

Cody awoke with a sharp throbbing in the back of his head. He sat up, but immediately regretted it. His head spun like vertigo, he felt like he was going to throw up. He groaned and lay back down, rubbing his temples trying to lessen the pounding in his brain.

“Are you okay?” He heard Melodye ask.

He slowly opened his eyes, letting them adjust to the darkness. He stared at bright blue eyes for a moment before everything went black.

He awoke again, this time his mind was a little clearer. His head still pounded, but now it was just an annoying throbbing in the back of his head.

“You’re awake.” This time he heard the familiar voice of Gatomon. He sat up and shook his head. The pain intensified with this action, but he managed to ignore it.

“Where are we?” He asked her, looking around at the surrounding terrain.

“I don’t know.” Gatomon said, following his eyes with hers.

That much was obvious, of course she didn’t know where they were. The only thing Cody could see on every side of him was trees, and they all looked the same. It was also terribly dark, he could only see what the small fire next to him allowed, it if wasn’t for that he wouldn’t be able to see anything.

“Where’s Melodye?” He asked facing Gatomon again.

“She’s gone to find food with Flamon. They should be back soon.”

“How long have I been out?” He asked rubbing his head again.

“The good part of two hours at least.” She replied staring into the fire.

He could tell that she was worried about their friends, especially Kari. He wondered himself what armadillomon was doing right now, he hoped that he wasn’t in trouble.

There was a soft rustling in the bush to the left of them. Gatomon’s ears pricked up and her body tensed, but her eyes didn’t leave the fire. Cody stood up, trying to see in the dim light who or what was out there.

Cody could honestly say that he’d never been this scared before. Apart from maybe that time when they were stuck in that underwater reactor. That was scary, but at least then he had armadillomon to protect him. In fact the only digimon that could digivolve was Melodye’s digimon, Flamon, but even then she only digivolved into rookie. So if they were attacked the only person who could really help them was Gatomon.

The rustling got louder as it got closer. Cody lent down and picked up the biggest stick he could find and held it out in front of him, the way his grandpa taught him.

“Don’t worry Cody.” Gatomon said looking at him with a hint of amusement, “It’s just Melodye.”

At that moment Melodye and Flamon appeared in the circle of light. She flashed him a big grin.

“You’re awake.” She observed, “We just went to get some food.” She held up a crude basket, made by bits of long grass weaved together. He dropped the stick he was holding and sat down again.

“How did you know it was Melodye?” He asked Gatomon.

“Listen Cody,” Was all she said.

“Listen to what, I don’t hear anything.”

“Exactly, nothing lives in this forest.”

She was right, he noticed now that there was nothing. No trees moved, no crickets chirped. The only sound was the crackling of the small fire he sat next to.

This made him even more apprehensive. If nothing dared live in this forest that means a great evil must be somewhere nearby.

Maybe it was Witchmon. Maybe her hideout was near here. If they were to stumble upon that now they’d be toast. He wished the others were here, especially Armadillomon. But he knew he had to be strong, the fate of the digiworld once again lay on his shoulders.

He took a deep breath and sighed letting his shoulders sag.

“Kari I hope you’re alright.” He heard Gatomon whisper.

He could only imagine what she was thinking right now. Her partner, the person she was supposed to protect, wasn’t here. And there was no way they could find them now.

**

“Kari I hope you’re alright.” Gatomon whispered to herself.

How was she ever supposed to find Kari? This forest was huge, and dark, and there was no way she could digivolve without Kari. She stared into the fire, although the light hurt her sensitive eyes she couldn’t pull away from it. There was something about bonfires that made you remember. Made you remember things you longed to forget, or things you had forgotten over time.

Memories of Wizardmon came flooding back into Gatomon’s head. How she wished he were here right now. He was the best friend, apart from Kari, that she ever had.

She remembered one time, back when she worked for Myotismon; they had played a practical joke on that stupid flying ball DemiDevimon. When he was sleeping they had dyed all his feathers bright pink, and hung all sorts of jewelry off his wings.

Now DemiDevimon, being the stupid bowling ball he was didn’t notice when he woke up. Which was exactly what they had planned. Every digimon in the vicinity was in tears with laughter. She thought she even saw a smirk on Myotismon’s face, but if there was one it was gone in a flash.

He spent weeks trying to remove the dye from his feathers. He also refused to go out and do his job. Which was at the time trying to steal the digidestineds’ crests. Myotismon was furious, he sentenced DemiDevimon to three weeks of cleaning the bathrooms, which was pretty bad.

They had laughed in his face the whole time. That’s obviously why he didn’t like her very much. She couldn’t blame him, if someone had done that to her she’d slice them up like an onion.

She let out a small giggle at the memory, but it quickly faded. Why did he have to die? Even though she had Kari now, there’s nothing that can fill the void that comes with losing your best friend.

She could feel the tears start to burn the corner of her eyes. She willed them to stop, but it was futile. Every time she thought about Wizardmon, good or bad, she started crying. She sniffed once but managed to keep her tears at bay.

‘Don’t cry Gatomon’

Gatomon’s head snapped up, her eyes scanning the area.

“Wizardmon?” She hesitantly asked.

‘Gatomon don’t cry.’ She heard his voice echo again. She looked around again carefully; not even noticing the questioning glances her companions gave her.

“Where are you Wizardmon?” She asked standing up.

‘I’m here in spirit Gatomon, you can’t see me, but I’m here.’

“Wizardmon I miss you so much.” She said out loud, her tears now spilling out of her eyes and running down her furry cheek.

‘I miss you too Gatomon’ his voice echoed across her mind.

“Wizardmon I’m so lonely without you.” She sniffed, choking back a sob.

‘Don’t be like that Gatomon, you’ve got Kari.” His voice consoled her.

“Why can’t you come back Wizardmon, I need you here.” She said, her body shaking with sobs.

She knew the answer to that it was simple. He couldn’t come back because he was dead. Dead people don’t just come back, at least not in the human world. How could humans live like this? All this pain and grief, how can they live with it?

‘I am here gatomon, I may not be here in body but I’m here in soul.’

“That’s not enough!” she yelled, “I want you to be here with me, so I can touch you!”

‘Gatomon you have to control your self. You have to realize that sometimes things die, Kari will someday you have to learn to live with it.’

“That’s easy for you to say, you haven’t lost your best friend!”

‘Yes I have, you think just because I’m dead I don’t feel? Gatomon you’re my best friend and not being able to be with you tears me apart. My soul is trapped in the human world I can’t get reconfigured. But just being able to watch over you is enough. So just remember gatomon, no matter how lonely you get I’ll always be here with you.’

His voice started to fade and Gatomon knew that his time here was up. She had thought up a million things that she wanted to say to him the next time she talked to him. But right now she couldn’t think of any of them. The only thing she could think to say in the short amount of time she had left was.

“I love you Wizardmon.”

She waited for a reply, but none came. She could once again feel tears well up in her eyes. She remembered what Wizardmon had told her, and tried her best to stop them.

“I won’t cry anymore Wizardmon,” She whispered, wiping her eyes with the back of her paw, “I promise.”