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Veemon wandered along next to the much larger Flamdramon, it placed its hands behind its head as the tiny dragon digimon began to recall the events the led to him joining up with Gage. “You mean the Doc there? He was so cool, there I was getting smacked around by this oversized Sushi buffet, when the most beautiful white angel from heaven swooped down and saved me” Veemon clasped his hands together, his eyes sparkling with admiration, “Oh, and I think angemon might have been with him too... anyway they beat the wasabi out of Marine Devimon and saved my Glorious Golden Tail!” Veemon swung at the air in front of him reenacting the magnificent fight, “BAM, KA-BLAST!!!”. The little digimon had in actuality been unconscious during most of the fight, but that wasn’t going to stop him from making up his own version. “So, after the Doc fixed me up...”

The patamon sitting on Gage Shoulder took offence to this embellished story. He had been the one to heal Veemon, and yet somehow the blue dragon was giving Gage all the credit.

“...I decided that I was gonna stick with him ta pay’em back for everything he did ta help me!”

Gage gave his Patamon a few pets on the head, “don’t mind him Pal, he’s just got his own unique view of the world.” Gage glanced around as they passed through the streets and allies of the crumbling city. He felt uneasy, it seemed they where constantly being watched. Kaya had mentioned she was known around here. And while he wasn’t entirely sure what that meant, it seemed that the locals where keeping an eye on her. After several minutes Gage began to realize that it wasn’t just Kaya they where watching. Several digimon seemed to be giving him strange looks as well. Did these creatures some how know him? Or did they some how found out what Gage represented? Or perhaps it was simply due to the fact that he was traveling with Kaya?

Gage shot a worried look at Kaya. She knew? Well of course she did, Kaya was a smart girl, and Gage had practically screamed, ‘Hey! Look at me! I have the Dragon Sovereign’s Core’ when he used its power to assist Ronmaru during the last battle. Still a small part of him was hoping she hadn’t figured it out. Although now that he had become aware of Kaya’s understanding, he was beginning to wonder why she was still traveling with him. Was it even possible for them to be friends while working for opposing sides? Was she only staying with him to be a spy for her dark masters? No! He couldn’t think that way. Whatever her reasons for being here now, Kaya had never once given Gage any reason to suspect that she would try to betray him. He decided he would continue to trust her until he was given a clear reason to think otherwise.

Gage grasped the Bracer on his wrist and flashed Kaya a mischievous smile. “Lets find out shall we?” the object began to glow as its physical form dissolved into energy before reshaping itself into a small crystal orb in Gage’s hand. Within the center of the orb was the ghostly image of a dog like creature. Gage nodded to his Patamon, and the oversized Hanster flapped its ears until it was air born. It hovered over to Veemon and landed on the Dragon’s head.

Gage slammed the orb into his chest, causing a bright light to erupt from the object. It was quickly absorbed into his body, which seemed to cause the winds in the area to blow with a greater force then normal. The Air seemed to be gathering around Gage’s body as he raised his right hand into the air. A ribbon of Fractal Code materialized around his palm, imprinted with Gage’s Digital Signature. “Execute!” the tamer called out, causing his body to become enveloped in a cascade of digital energy, “Neo-Beast Spirit, Digivolution!” there was a sudden burst of power as Gage's clothing began to dissolve off his body. His physical mass was also evaporating, flesh and bone converting into data and energy until his form was no more then a glowing blue silhouette of his former self.

The ring of Fractal Code began to slide down his arm, and as it passed over the human-shaped energy mass, it began grafting digimon data over the core of energy. His hand became a forceful, clawed appendage that seemed to be wearing some form of covering over the paw that look not entirely unlike a boxing glove. Three sharp black claws extended through the fabric of the glove. After the fractal pattern passed over his face, what was left in its place was the head of a great beast, a wolf like creature with white-blue fur, eyes that glowed with the dull yellow color of moonlight and sharp white fangs. On his forehead was a star-like cross design. Around his neck was a thick plume of white hair, under that mane was a long red scarf the extended down the length of his back, the ends of the scarf looked oddly like a pair of hands with three fingers. As the last of Gage’s body was coated with data his hind legs became wrapped with white fighters’ tape, and his long tail curled up into a ball of spiraling blue and white fur. Once the cloud of energy dissipated, the former human fell onto all fours and rearing his new head back, “Gaogamon!” the Hybrid roared its name, with a savage voice.

Closing his yellow eyes the beast began to draw in air, taking a deep breath. “Fascinating!” the creature snarled.

Veemon and Patamon watched their human partner with wide-eyed amazement, “woah, that was incredible Doc!” the little dragon cheered.

Gaogamon sniffed at the breeze and began to snarl slightly. Bounding forward he used his nose to knock over a pile of trash. Out of the mess rolled a glob like digimon with slimy green skin and two long stalks extending form its head, which held up its eyes. The creature was foul smelling and unsightly. Gaogamon stood over the blob, preventing it from escaping. “Why are you following us!” he growled.

The slimy digimon wiggled trying to get away, but no matter where it moved Gaogamon’s Claws was there to block its way. “Look I aint telling you nothing freak!” the Numemon gargled. Gaogamon growled and flashed a mouthful of fangs at the living mound of Jello. The creature yelped and started babbling, “Ok, ok, don’t eat me! Rumor is going around that a couple of humans have been stealing the sovereign artifacts and using their power to slaughter other digimon. You human filth always coming into our world, brainwashing our kind to serve as slaves! And now you slay our Guardians and steal their treasures!” the numemon flung a clump of filth into Gaogamon’s left eye. The Wolf lifted a paw to try and remove the waste, allowing the slug like digimon to slither away and escape into an open sewer hole. “The boss will hear about this, you wont leave this city with digimon property!”

Gaogamon, turned his head. He had a feeling that Kaya’s walking kill stick would want to go after the Numemon, “Let it go...” he said as it pawed more of the dirt from his eye. “How Vile...” he growled, “It thought I wanted to eat it, quite rediculess!”

Kaya stared curiously at the retreating Numemon, the demon lord apprentice was having a hard time believing was she just heard, she knew Azulongmon had been killed but she had no idea that other ancient guardians had been slayed? That was a scary thought, perhaps Nagato had gotten hold of some other guardian digimons?
She was not sure and that was quite frightening, the guardian digimons were rather important to the digital world, even Lucemon was rather careful when it came to the ancient digimons, they were both very strong and kept a certain balance, to kill one required skills and knowledge (or in Nagato´s case possession by an evil digimon demon lord and a heck lot of digimon partners). She understood why the digimons would be scared around humans if humans were truly killing the guardians and stealing their artifacts but how could the wild digimons believe anyone would brainwash their digimons, there was a strong bond between tamer and digimon yes but that was not brainwash, it Meta and Patamon wanted to leave they could do so and she would not be able to do anything about it..

She felt the data of her lord rush through her veins, the data had grown quite faint and was still weakening more and more with each passing second, she had a feeling that he was sending his data to the dark pit where he could be reborn. That was good, perhaps she could ask him whether he knew anything about this or not when he had gotten his body back
Flamedramon stopped midstride and stared at the Gaogamon with cold eyes, but much to Kayas surprise the armor digimon did not follow the rookie, he merely snorted in anger and flexed the metallic claws on his hand before lowering his head in submission to obey the command give to him, that was a surprise..

The redhead walked towards the blue dog like digimon until she was close enough to take a hold of the blue were-dogs head
“Stop pawing at it. You are messing up your fur”
She brushed of most of the dirt and slime, it felt and smelled worse than she had thought it would, it was absolutely disgusting in every way imaginable. The girl threw the slime down onto the dusty ground with a “yuck”, it made a small squishy sound as it hit the rough surface
“It´s not THAT ridiculous Gage.. Gao.. Gagemon"
Patamon burst out laughing at that
"..some digimon do eat other smaller digimons, its not that common in city areas but it does happen”
The girl wiped her hands on a nearby building to get the last of the grease off of it, how could a digimon be THAT disgusting, god she hated Numemons
“So, now we know someone is stealing the sovereign artifacts”
She spun around and walked back to Gage, unable to resist the urge to run a hand trough the large digimons blue fur, she had never seen a Gaogamon before in her entire life
“This is—very interesting”
She ran a hand down his neck before placing it at the dog digimons ear to scratch it like one would a puppy, only this puppy was big enough to bite her in half
“How does it feel like? Do you see things in black and white like real dogs do?”
She was very fascinated by this creature, never before in her life had she seen anyone turn into a digimon unless they bio-merged with one of their own partners, Gage had done this without help from any of his digimons, it was amazing.

Flamedramon stretched uncomfortably, body very tense. He was in a lower level than Gage now, that was unacceptable!
The dragon-humanoid digimons body erupted into white flames quite suddenly, which made Patamon yelp and hide behind Veemon and Alexander.
The armor around Flamedramons blue skin widened and started covering more of his body, it changed in shape and color to match the DNA design he was trying to copy.
His chest plate split, grew stronger, his claws shortened and with a loud crack metallic wings tore themselves through the hardening skin on his back. The DNA strings coiled themselves around his body in a death grip until they exploded and melted into the digimons body. Soon the wolf like creature stood in all its glory in front of the others, Meta huffed, opened his mouth and roared, which made the rookie digimons who had gathered in the shady corners scream and run away in fear.
MetalGarurumons red eyes scanned the area shortly before he trotted towards Kayas side with a soft growl

”WHAT!!”Kaya smacked her forehead with a loud growl
“I’m gonna KILL Nagato! Kakunzo..Barbamon.. WHATEVER!”
Metlagarurumon frowned
“ He killed Baihumon, and Zhuqiaomon?”
Kaya nodded silently
“But mistress .. is that not… good?”
The girls head snapped up, she stared at her digimon with unblinking amber eyes, several seconds passed by before she finally averted her gaze to the skies above
“I suppose it is, less light energy, means the celestial digimons are weaker now”
Patamon tugged at his tamers pant leg with sad blues eyes, they were watering
“Please Kaya don’t, i dont wanna be mean to the angels, and not to my brother!”
“I.. oh Patamon”
Kaya sat kneeled down so that she could take the small digimon into her arms
“We aren’t doing anything before Lucemon tells us so we are NOT going after the angels okay?”The little digimon sniffled before he buried his face into the crook of his tamers neck with a sad whine.
Metalgarurumon looked up at his tamer but received a shake of the head, Kaya could handle her child digimon better than he could.
Kaya smiled sadly at Gage
“Sorry, evil angel you know, he has some bad days every now and then”
Kaya shushed the crying digimon and ran her hand down his back to ease him
“So, not only is the ancient digimons currently dead as well as Lucemon but we the digimons are starting to fear humans…”
Kaya shook her head again and turned to walk down the street towards the shop again, metalgarurumon followed his muttering tamer
"Orion, that´s a good name"

Kaya had to hold back a chuckle when she looked over her shoulder and caught sight of Veemon on Metalgarurumons back, she was rather sure that the shape shifter did know the rookie was there, but it seemed that he paid no mind to the digimon, it was a sweet gesture actually, she would have to use a lot of self-control so that she didn’t tease him about it later, it was so rare that Metamormon actually liked anyone, let alone allow them to ride on his back.

The girl continued walking down the alley way, petting the small digimon in her arms every now and then.
She truly hated seeing Patamon sad like this, she could FEEL how broken he was!
Lucemon had told her it was due to his angelic data clashing with the dark data their partnership had infused, that and the fact that the little digimon still loved his brother..
It was a bad mix right from the start and there was absolutely nothing she could do about it, it wasn’t as if she could simply waltz up to the celestials hideout, knock on the door and ask if MagnaAngemon wanted to come out and talk, yes that would be lovely, especially after the b*****d feather balls had tried to wipe out her memory of the digital world, kill Metamormon and after the succeeded in taking Kraven away from her.

To say Kaya hated the angel digimons was an understatement, they had hurt her more than anyone else, never mind the broken angel, bruises and bleeding she had gotten from her last capture.
If those winged digimons were supposed to be the good guys Kaya was glad she was on the “dark” side cause they sure as heck treated her better there, she hadn’t even gotten a say in things it was just:
Well you killed some digimon and made them be reborn as evil virus digimons, you separated tamers from their partners and you have an evil digimons as your partner and since we can use you to get what we want from your “boyfriend” Kraven….

Next time she saw Seraphimon she would kill him, even if it took every last drop of blood in her body she would..
Well that was the crest of darkness speaking again, she knew cause Patamon was holding his paw over the necklace around her neck as it started glowing in that dark and grey colour again, the crest of love hanging next to it gave of a faint pink light to match before they both went dull again.
She took a deep breath and then exhaled, there was a low humming growl behind her, obviously Metamormon feeling the dark and light reaction again.

The redhead stopped suddenly and looked at the building next to her, a smile curved her lips as she recognized it. She turned around before waving a hand at the building
“Here we are, welcome to Wisemons place!”Metalgarurumon stopped dead in his tracks when he to recognized the dusty brown building with the glass windows, it looked liked it had been some sort of major chlothing shop many years ago but now the glass had been tainted by many years of ill-treatment and the wall had cracked several places.

The demon apprentice walked towards her metallic wolf digimon to retrieve the dark digiegg that had been placed behind Veemon and made sure to pet the small blue dragon digimon before she took the egg from behind him and put it in her backpack, she didn’t want Wisemon to see it because if she knew the guy as well as she thought she did they would be stuck here for hours while he offered her everything from digi-dollars to actual digimons so that he could buy the egg from her.
She did NOT want to sell Piedmon, that would literally be like selling her own family.

God how she missed staying awake all night watching spooky movies and trying on makeup, she hated doing that when she was in the real world but Piedmon hadn’t been there then, he was like a 13 year old girl at times..
Patamon giggled, pawed at her shoulder with a grin
“Piedmon says that he is SO not a 13 year old girl and he says that if you ever compare him to one again he is going to attack you in your sleep with a mascara!”
Kaya had no idea how the digimon inside of the egg knew or how he had communicated with Patamon but she decided not to ask for the sake of her own sanity plus the fact that the ancient clow prince had cheered the little digimon up
“Well you tell HIM that if he does that I am going to e-mail a CERTAIN picture of a CERTAIN person with his mask OFF to all the tamers in the digital world”Patamon burst out laughing so she made up her mind NOT to wait for the Digimon lords answer.
She turned to Gage, then tipped her head towards the shop, indicating that they should go inside
“Gentlemen first?”

"That's my hat!" Jonny took one defiant step forward, mainly because that was all he COULD take. A sudden movement from the corner of his eye was all he saw, until he felt an angled blade pressed up to his neck. His body stiffened reactively, and he came to a sudden halt.

"That's enough, Gaiomon." Ravemon lifted his hand in a halting gesture. The sword hovered by the tamer's throat for a moment longer, and then withdrew. The massive dragon-man digimon sheathed his sword, and once more moved into the corner of the room, where he can see those who enter, but they won't see him.

Jonny followed Gaiomon's retreating back, and then looked back up at Ravemon questioningly. "I'm sorry for his behavior. A necessity that damages almost as much as it protects. I have made many enemies, and they would love to put me out of their misery as quickly as possible."

The ninja stood from his thrown, and nodded to Shurimon, who was standing behind Jonny. Shurimon returned the nod, and retreated through the doorway. "Come, let us go outside, before night falls." Ravemon motioned to the doorway, and Jonny felt there wasn't much of a choice. Following Shurimon again, the procession made their out into the training area.

Asuramon had begun walking among the students, straightening backs, extending limbs, making sure none of them used a short cut to get through training. He looked up as Ravemon came up to him, and had a few whispered words with the multi-headed digimon.

Asuramon's faces flashed from happy to angry, and then to pity. "Alright children, I want you to clear the arena. Our sensei is going to use it for a bit." All the rookies look around nervously, then hurried, lining up on one side of the stone courtyard.

"Human tamer," Ravemon said, walking toward the far side of the open field. The feeling in the air made Jonny's stomach drop.

"My spies have reported that you have bested a MaloMyotismon with little help from a friend. You and your partner have also been able to hold your ground against an UltimateChaosmon, one of the most powerful entities that exist in the Digital World. I would like to see if this is true. Show me your power."

The ninja turned on his heel, and stared across the arena at Jon, a dry grin creeping across his lips.

(Hurricane and Digimon enter from Dragon Eye Lake)

Hurricane stands on a hill, Wind blowingin his hair, A Raidramon,MachGoagamon,Gallantmon, and ChaosGallantmon appear behind him."I wonder if Kazuku's ok......the Devimon deleted him,....."