Chapter 29: The Trials Of 404 Island (Part 4)

Now, three of the children had become completely one with the elements their crests represent. The only one that remained was Drusilla and her Crest Of Fire. Wizardmon had just asked Drusilla if she's ready to which Drusilla answered in the affirmative. Wizardmon turned around and began walking towards the forest again. "This way. We'll need to trek through the forest to get up to the volcano." Wizardmon said. Drusilla nodded and followed after him. Coalmon followed after the two, rolling per her usual way of getting around.

Eventually, Wizardmon, Drusilla, and Coalmon made it to the volcano. Around the volcano's edge were various fire Digimon; Meramons, Flarerizamons, Candlemons, and a few Greymons. Wizardmon looked concerned. "Drusilla…your trial….will probably be the most dangerous yet." Wizardmon said. Drusilla started to look worry. "Why? What do I have to do?" Drusilla asked. "Well….you….really only have one thing to do, as opposed to the others who had three." Wizardmon began. "Don't tell me I need to take a lava bath. Look, my species is heat resistant, but we are capable of burning to death." Drusilla said.

"Well….funny you should mention it." Wizardmon said.

"Oh, heck no!" Drusilla exclaimed.

"Look, I have a piece of steel here. I'm going to throw it into the volcano. All you need to do is dive in after it and retrieve it before it melts. With your Devillian body, you should be able to last a total of 15 seconds before you sustain serious injury." Wizardmon said as he held a big steel block that he had caused to magically appear in his hands.

Drusilla had a flashback to her grandfather Dracula being burned to death by MagnetGolemon's attacks. It was true. They were resistant to heat. They had to be. They evolved that way due to Devillis' extremely molten environment, but they weren't completely fireproof. And what about her clothes? Even if she was able to retrieve the steel and survive, chances are, all of her clothes would be burned off. The last thing she wanted was to be completely naked in the Digital World with nothing to replace the incinerated outfit. Not to mention that 15 seconds wasn't a lot of time to retrieve sinking metal. All these thoughts ran through Drusilla's head. That last concerned was apparently already thought up by Wizardmon. He said, "Your clothes will burn up in the lava, so I've prepared something for you to put on." He waved his hand while chanting something in Witchish. When he was done chanting, a red tunic appeared. "This is a Meramon Tunic. It'll withstand the heat of the lava. It will also buy you additional time than the 15 seconds, but not much."

Drusilla nodded. She took the tunic out of Wizardmon's hand and went behind a tree to change. "Well, I guess I'm ready." Drusilla said. "Then….begin!" Wizardmon yelled as he tossed the cube into the volcano. Drusilla dove into the volcano after the cube like an olympic diver. Coalmon had a concerned look on her face. "Good luck…my friend." She said. Drusilla saw the cube drop into the lava and sink. Seconds later, Drusilla herself also entered the lava. "AHH! AHH!!!!!" She screamed as she felt the lava burn her skin. If she were a human, she'd already be dead! She kept her eyes tightly shut while she was submerged in the lava. "If I open my eyes even for a second, I'll be blinded for the rest of my life! But how can I see where the cube went!?" Drusilla thought to herself. Drusilla's heart began to race within her. She was in a lot of pain. She was in the most pain she's even been in. Drusilla grasped random areas, hoping by some miracle that she would just happen to grab onto the steel cube so she could get out of there. "Grabbing blindly like this is no good! But opening my eyes will only blind me! How can I possibly pass this trial!?" Drusilla thought to herself.

Then, Drusilla had an unexpected flashback. The memory was of Zai sitting on the bed next to Drusilla right after the incident with Dracula. "You know, some Devillians are completely immune to heat." Zai said. Drusilla looked confused. "Wait, as in…they cannot be burned?" She asked. Zai smiled and nodded. "Yeah. While most Devillians are resistant, some Devillians are a little more than a little resistant. It's a bit uncommon" Zai said. "Uncommon?" Drusilla asked. "Well, most Devillians are naturally resistant to heat. But only a few here and there are completely immune. I've seen some Devillians relax in pools of lava like it was a bath." Zai said. Drusilla laid back on her bed and folded her arms behind her head. "Geeze, no wonder our species got associated with demons." She said before closing her eyes. Zai stood up and turned to walk outside of the room. She opened the bedroom door and took one step forward. She turned to Zai and smiled slightly. "It's possible that you're one of them, but…don't go testing that theory, ok?" Zai said. Drusilla sighed. "What? Do you think I'm going to jump in a volcano or something? That's literally so not cool."

The flashback was over and Drusilla was brought back to the present. "Wait….if I'm really immune…but….why is it burning?." Drusilla thought aloud. She was terrified. Drusilla then had an idea occur to her; what if all this stinging burning pain was merely psychosomatic? In other words, she expected to be burned when she dove in, and therefore, that's what she felt. What if this was all in her head? Drusilla, in a brief second, opened her eyes! Nothing happened! She wasn't blinded! In fact, she could see the steel cube sinking in front of her. Moreover, the pain of burning had left her completely! Drusilla swam over to the cube and grabbed it. "This is…..this is unreal!" She said in amazement. Her red tunic was starting to dissolve, but her own body was totally unaffected. Drusilla swam upwards with the cube in hand.

Up on top, Wizardmon and Coalmon looked concerned. "It's been…..more than 30 seconds." Coalmon said in a sad tone of voice. Wizardmon took off his hat and held it to his chest. "I'm so sorry, Drusilla." He said in a sad tone of voice. Just then, Drusilla burst out of the volcano with the cube in hand. The cube was glowing red from the heat, and most of Drusilla's tunic had burned away, leaving only the most important parts of her body covered. She flew down with the cube and bent over in order to set it on the ground in front of Wizardmon. Drusilla then stood back up and looked Wizardmon in the eyes while folding her arms. She had a bit of smug look on her face. "Why are you holding your hat in front of your chest? Think I couldn't take the heat?" She boasted. Wizardmon looked shocked. "I-Impossible!" He exclaimed. Coalmon smiled and let out an excited cheer before rolling over to Drusilla and hugging her leg. She began crying. "Drusilla! Drusilla! I was so afraid you were gone for good!" She exclaimed. Drusilla bent over and pet Coalmon on the head with a smile on her face. "Never." She said. Just then, they saw a bright light coming over from Drusilla's pants pocket. Drusilla's clothes were folded up in a nice pile next to the tree that she had changed behind. Drusilla ran over to her pile of clothes and removed her Digivice from her pants pocket. She flipped her Digivice over and saw that her Crest Of Fire was shining brightly. The light shot out over at Coalmon and enveloped her. Coalmon looked startled by the sudden surge of energy she felt. "Oh!"

"DIGIVOLUTION"

"Coalmon digivolve to…..CoalGolemon!"

"CoalGolemon digivolve to…..MagnetGolemon!"

"MagnetGolemon digivolve to….

During this new digivolution sequence, MagnetGolemon's eyes and mouth shone light forth. The head of MagnetGolemon cracked, and then, a human arm punched through the top of MagnetGolemon's head, making a hole which a womanly figure climbed out of. The woman stood on top of MagnetGolemon's head and spread her fiery wings which protruded from her back. The woman had red and yellow colored short hair, which made the hair on her head look like fire. The woman had a bright orange skirt that stopped at her knees. She had a torso covering that was cut to expose the midriff and cleavage, but the cloth also completely covered her neck and connected to the cloth that covered the breasts. The woman had red and yellow gloves that went halfway up her arms, and she was wearing shoes that were also yellow and red. In her left hand, she held a sword that was on fire! The fiery woman held her sword with both hands and then let go with one hand and swung her sword to the left and then to the right.

"....Feroniamon!" Drusilla's Digimon shouted as her digivolution sequence finished.

Drusilla looked amazed at her new Digimon. "Feroniamon?" She uttered.

"That's right. I'm Feroniamon, Coalmon's mega form. My Burning Blade attack is hot enough to cut through anything."

Drusilla smiled. "You look incredible, Feroniamon." She said. Later, Feroniamon returned with Wizardmon and Drusilla in her arms. She was flying down towards the beach. This was much faster than walking down the volcano and through the forest. Drusilla was now wearing her clothes again instead of the mystical fire resistant red tunic. On the beach, Nibblemon, DemiNaturemon, and DemiDovemon were running around playing and laughing. Taylor smiled at the In-Training Digimon as they played. It was nice to see them have some fun after all that hard work. Taylor was still in her black tube top and aqualian loin cloth. Her clothes were still soaked and she didn't want to put them on like that. Martin sat beside Taylor with his arm around her. Taylor leaned over and put her head on his shoulder. They then heard a voice "You guys!" Taylor took her head off of Martin's shoulder and looked over in the direction where the voice was coming from. Martin also looked in that direction. The In-Training Digimon and Emmett also stopped what they were doing to look. Taylor smiled and stood up. "Drusilla?" Feroniamon landed on the beach and put both Wizardmon and Drusilla down. Taylor, Martin, Emmett, and their Digimon ran over to them. "Wow! I'm guessing this lady used to be Coalmon." Martin observed, gesturing his hand toward the red/yellow haired lady with wings made of fire coming out of her back. Drusilla nodded. "Yep. This Digimon is called Feroniamon. She is, in fact, Coalmon's mega. She's so not cool, but in this case, that's a good thing." Drusilla said. It was obvious from her facial expressions and vocal inflections that she was proud of her new Digimon.

Wizardmon and Witchmon clapped their hands in unison. "Congratulations, all of you! You are now prepared to take on the Seven Demon Lords!" Wizardmon said happily. "Show those Demon Lords they can't kidnap people and get away with it!" Witchmon said with a big smile on her face. When Witchmon finished speaking, she threw her head back and let out perhaps the loudest cackle yet.

Feroniamon started glowing white and then she began shrinking. When the light emanating from her faded, in Feroniamon's place was a little fire creature. She appeared to have a big fireball for a head, and a tiny ghostlike body. The little fire-ghost creature raised one of her tiny hands. "I am Litmon, Coalmon's In-Training form." She said.

The sun was starting to go down. It had been a long day. Witchmon started walking toward her house. "Well, now that you're all equipped to go Mega, there's no reason for you to stay here." Witchmon said. "But since it's so late, why don't you stay the night?" Wizardmon said. Witchmon shot Wizardmon a glare. "Excuse me? We're not going back tonight?" She asked angrily. Wizardmon sweat dropped. "Well, I mean….I'm hungry. And I'm sure these children and their Digimon are very tired after all that training." Wizardmon responded. Witchmon folded her arms behind her back and walked off.

Wizardmon took the 4 kids and their Digimon back to his house. His house appeared very tiny, but looks can be deceiving. Wizardmon opened a hatch that led underground. "Come this way. You may think my house is tiny, but that's because you can't see all of it." He said as he walked down the stairs. The kids looked at each other with concerned looks on their faces. Going into a cellar underground with someone they only met earlier that morning? Seems like something someone would do in a horror movie. But they felt they could trust Wizardmon. Mirei did, after all. The four children and four In-Training Digimon walked down the stairs after Wizardmon. They were amazed to find that underneath Wizardmon's worn out shack of a house was a fancy old-Japanese styled house. Complete with a kitchen, living room, and multiple bathrooms. The kids looked around with widened eyes and agape mouths. "It's sooo big!" Taylor said in amazement as she turned her head left and right to take it all in. Martin was also looking back and forth. He turned to Wizardmon and asked, "Isn't this place a little big for just yourself?" Wizardmon blushed and rubbed the back of his head. "Umm…well, I created this place just in case….you know….I could ever get the girl I like to marry me. Not that there is a girl right now, or anything, no not right now." Wizardmon then began to get more flustered. "And it's definitely not Witchmon. Why would you even say that it was Witchmon? How absurd!" DemiNaturemon tilted her head and put her hand up to her mouth. In the sweetest little voice, she said, "But, Mr. Wizardmon, no one said anything about Witchmon." Wizardmon's eyes widened and his face turned beat red. "Oh! Well….I see!" He said nervously. Drusilla rolled her eyes. "Riiiiight." Wizardmon scowled. "What's that supposed to mean!?" Drusilla gasped and put her hand up to her mouth. "Oh flip! I said it out loud this time!"

It was obvious to her that Wizardmon and Witchmon were frenemies, or whatever the romantic equivalent of frenemies were.

Slightly later, Taylor, Drusilla, Naturemon, and Dovemon were relaxing in an onsen bath together. They were separated by a wall. On the other side of the wall, Martin, Emmett, and Sharkmon were in an Onsen bath. Coalmon wasn't in the water for obvious reasons. She was literally made of fire and rock! However, she sit off to the side, outside the water. The In-Training Digimon had regained their Rookie forms after eating a hardy meal that Wizardmon had prepared for them. Taylor folded her arms behind her back, leaned back, and closed her eyes. "What a day. I learned some new things about myself." Taylor said.

"Like what?" Drusilla asked.

"Well, I learned that I have some uncommon mermaid abilities. My grandmother told me that some mermaids have special abilities that other mermaids don't. These differ from Poseidonic powers. They're more akin to special talents in humans like speedreading, photographic memories, etc." Taylor said.

"What abilities did you discover?"

"I have Speed Swimming, Siren Singing, Hydrothermalkenesis, and Hydrocryokenesis. The first allows me to swim up to 100 miles per hour. The second is when I sing so beautifully I can enchant any male to do my bidding. The third and fourth are the abilities to boil and freeze pockets of water respectively." Taylor explained.

Drusilla grinned and leaned over to Taylor who was sitting to the right of her. "Singing, huh? You know, I don't think I've EVER heard you sing? Why don't you give us a number right now?" Drusilla said. Taylor opened her eyes quickly and sat up, looking over to Drusilla with a red face. "S-S-S-S-Sing? Here? Now? Umm…maybe later!" Taylor said frantically. Drusilla wrapped her arm around Taylor. "Aw, come on. Just one little tune. You can choose the song. I don't care." Drusilla said, obviously teasing her long time childhood friend. Drusilla knew Taylor well. She knew that her nerdy mermaid friend loved to talk, but singing was another matter altogether. She didn't even like singing the Happy Birthday song at birthday parties. The level of stage fright was immense. "Drusilla, please! I don't want to!" Taylor pleaded. Drusilla grinned. "Yeah, you're right. If it's really as enchanting as you say, all the boys on the other side of the fence might come running in here madly in love with you." She teased. Taylor smiled and raised an index finger. "R-r-r-r-right! We don't want the boys coming in during our bath, do we? Well, I guess I can't sing then. Oh well!" Taylor said before letting out a nervous laugh. "Well, if you can't sing, then it's time to go back home, Miss Mermaid." Drusilla said before dunking Taylor's head under the water forcibly. When Taylor came back up, she wiped the water from her eyes and gave Drusilla a smile. "Oh, you shouldn't have done that." Taylor said. The two girls then began splashing each other with the water in the onsen.

Naturemon started splashing about too. "Yay! Splishy splashy! Splishy Splashy!" She shouted as she slapped the water with her hands with a cheerful expression on her face. Dovemon looked a little annoyed. "Girls, please! I'm trying to relax here!" Dovemon protested. Naturemon shot a glare over to Dovemon. "You're a stick in the mud!" Naturemon said before grabbing Dovemon and dunking her under. When Dovemon came back up, she flapped her wings from under the water to send as much water as she could at Naturemon. "I didn't start this splash war, but I'm going to finish it!" Dovemon exclaimed. Naturemon splashed Dovemon, Dovemon splashed Naturemon, and soon the annoyed Dovemon was having as much fun as the others.

On the other side of the fence, Martin, Emmett, and Sharkmon sat listening in to the conversation. "They sure are rowdy. Here, I thought it'd be us boys who'd be the rowdy bathers." Martin said. "It's just because there's more girls in our group than boys, at least when you include the Digimon." Emmett said.

Sharkmon made sad noises. "Why can't I hang out with Taylor? She's my best friend and it sounds like they're having fun over there." Sharkmon said. Martin patted him on the head. "Because that's the girl's side, little man."

The kids relaxed in the onsen for a little while longer. Drusilla got to tell Taylor what had happened during her trial as well. Taylor was surprised to hear that Drusilla was completely immune to lava and fire. Taylor jokingly called her a Furenmaid. This confused Drusilla at first, but Taylor explained that the humans named Aqualians mermaids and mermen (a term they later adopted for themselves as well) and that the term "mer" came from "Mere", the middle English word for "sea". Taylor explained that she just replaced "mer" with "Furen", the middle English word for Fire. Furenmaid. Drusilla was amused at how adorkable her friend could be sometimes.

After their onsen baths, the children and their Digimon went to bed, sleeping on floor mattresses all in the same room. There were 8 floor mattresses in the room, with 4 line up in a top row and 4 lined up in a bottom row. The kids were lying on the top row while the Digimon lied on the bottom row. Wizardmon slept in his own room down the hall.

The next day….

Taylor, Sharkmon, Martin, Naturemon, Drusilla, Coalmon, Emmett, Dovemon, Witchmon and Wizardmon were standing on the beach of 404 Island. Wizardmon and Witchmon were facing towards the beach, and the Elemental Four were facing away from the beach and towards Witchmon and Wizardmon. It was now time for the children to go back to World For Us All HQ and come up with a plan of attack. Taylor was now in her "land clothes" they had dried overnight. She gave the two magic using Digimon hugs and said "Thanks for everything. We'll always remember you." Taylor said with a smile. Martin got into Witchmon's boat and waved to everyone. "Bye, bye! Hope we see you again some day!" Martin yelled from the boat. Naturemon turned around and looked at Martin. Placing her hand on her hip and tilting her head to the side, she asked, "Marty Hearty, what are you doing?" Martin seemed confused by the question. "We're leaving right?" He replied. "Don't you remember that Izzy put a program in your digivices to teleport us back to HQ?" Naturemon asked. Martin had a look of realization come across his face. Then he smiled nervously and sweat dropped. "Actually, I did forget about that." He replied. Dovemon giggled. "He misses Witchmon's super fast boat rides." She teased.

Just then, a familiar figure emerged from the water; Owarimon! "Time to die, Digidestined!" She exclaimed. The children and the Digimon turned around startled. Witchmon and Wizardmon both looked shocked. "What!? Owarimon!? Here!?" Witchmon exclaimed. "Th-Th-That's impossible! No one can into this island without the passcode! And even then, you need years of magic training just to be able to put it in correctly!" Wizardmon exclaimed. Owarimon grinned and laughed. "Your pathetic security is nothing to my master!" Owarimon said. She unsheathed her blade that was attached to her hip and licked the blade. She grinned psychotically before beginning to laugh. "My blade hungers for blood." Owarimon said.

Naturemon started walking towards Owarimon. Martin jumped out of the boat and ran over to her, he stood in front of her and placed both hands on her shoulders. "Naturemon, don't get too close. At this level, she could destroy you with one strike!" Martin said. Naturemon gently grabbed Martin's hands and removed them from her shoulders. Naturemon took a few steps forward. She looked upon the snake-human Digimon with compassion and sympathy. "Haruka….please. You don't have to do this. You're just a child. Morty Shin has transformed you into a Digimon-Human hybrid like the TomokoGizumon and BobGizumon. He used the power of the Red Stones to supercharge your abilities so you'd become a weapon of mass destruction. He's erased your memories and brainwashed you into thinking you're nothing but an artificially created Digimon, but that's not the truth. If you come with us, we can find a way to change you back to normal. You can live a normal life as the human child you were meant to be, not as a monster of bloodshed." Naturemon said. Owarimon grit her teeth and scowled. "Nonsense! I am an artificially created Digimon! I am a product of the Red Stones. The only purpose for my existence is to fulfill the desire of my master!" Owarimon replied. Naturemon placed on hand over her chest. "Please, listen to me! You were a Digidestined in your universe! Morty took your partner's DNA, mixed it with Red Stone minerals, and the infused data of millions of Digimon and turned you into what you are now! It doesn't have to be this way! You are a precious living thing, not a tool!" Naturemon pleaded.

Owarimon seemed to get more agitated the more Naturemon spoke. She waved her left arm out to the side and shouted, "Shut up! I won't fall for tricks! I am but a weapon created by the Red Stones! I have no heart, no emotions, no sense of right and wrong! I am completely empty! My one purpose is to destroy everything but my master's home world!" Owarimon shouted. She gripped her sword tightly, as tightly as she could. She was fuming with anger. But why? Owarimon didn't want to admit it, but when she matched Naturemon's words with the flashbacks she had, it didn't seem like "nonsense". It seemed like the truth. But, if Naturemon were correct, it would mean that everything she was fighting for was a lie. It would mean she was an orphan child with no one in the entire world who cared about her. She would be alone in this world, this cold, cold world. It was better, Owarimon thought, if she really were just a weapon with no heart. Besides, how could she know for sure that those images weren't implanted by those children or their Digimon? Even this world's Digidestined had unusual abilities, like the mermaid girl and the girl with large bat wings protruding from her back. Maybe, Owarimon thought, one of them planted those images in her mind with the plan of coming up with this story. Maybe the Digidestined wanted Owarimon to lower her guard so they could destroy her more easily. Well, she wasn't about to let that happen.

Owarimon lunged at Naturemon with her sword, "You're just trying to get me to lower my guard so you can destroy me more easily, well I won't let that happen!" Martin took out his green D-Eco. The other kids also took out their D-Eco Digivices.

"DIGIVOLUTION"

"Naturemon digivolve to….MotherNaturemon!"

"MotherNaturemon digivolve to….Vineyardmon!"

"DIGIVOLUTION"

"Sharkmon digivolve to….Jawsmon!"

"Jawsmon digivolve to….WarJawsmon!"

"DIGIVOLUTION"

"Coalmon digivolve to….CoalGolemon!"

"CoalGolemon digivolve to….MagnetGolemon!"

"DIGIVOLUTION"

"Dovemon digivolve to…Harpymon!"

"Harpymon digivolve to….HolyHarpymon!"

The four partner Digimon were now in their Champion forms. Vineyardmon caught the sword that Owarimon swung at her. Vineyardmon, unfortunately, cut her hand by doing this, and as a result, dark blue blood flowed down her arm. As Vineyardmon winced from the pain, watching the blood flow down her arm, a thought occurred to her! "Human blood is red, Digimon blood is blue, but it's purple for hybrids like you!" Vineyardmon said. Vineyardmon kicked Owarimon in the stomach, knocking her to the ground. Vineyardmon then caused a pointy stick to grow out of her wrist. With her other hand, Vineyardmon broke it off and lunged at Owarimon. "Time to show your true colors!" Vineyardmon said as she slashed Owarimon in the chest with the sharp stick. True enough, the slash wound Vineyardmon created with her stick caused purple colored blood to flow out of her body. Owarimon quickly slithered back in order to get some distance between herself and the vegitative woman Digimon. Owarimon put her hand up to her chest and then removed her hand and looked down at it. Owarimon's eyes widened. "She's right! It IS purple!" She exclaimed.

WarJawsmon looked at Owarimon with determined eyes. He was watching to see what she would do. Would she attack or would she be convinced? Owarimon began trembling. The puzzle pieces came together. "Don't you see? You're neither a pure Digimon nor a pure human? You're a hybrid like Vineyardmon's been saying!" WarJawsmon said. Owarimon shook her head and clenched her blood covered hand into a fist. "No. No! I can't be a human!" Owarimon shouted. Owarimon then jumped up high into the air and swung her sword, causing a surge of black energy to be fired. "Thanatos Strike!" Owarimon shouted while she swung the sword. The four Digimon evaded the attack. HolyHarpymon frowned. She looked over to Vineyardmon and said, "I don't think we can get through to her. We have to fight." HolyHarpymon said. "We can just knock her out. We don't have to destroy her. If we can get her subdued, maybe we can…" Emmett suggested.

"No! She has to be destroyed! If you can't win her over, that's the only way!" Witchmon exclaimed.

"You can't be serious! She's a kid like us!" Taylor objected.

"That may have been true at one time. But now, she's become a weapon of All For One World. If she's allowed to digivolve all the way to Mega, septillions upon septillions of lives will be destroyed! Now, tell me, will you really risk the life of septillions for one single girl?" Witchmon argued.

"Thanatos Strike!" Owarimon shouted, swinging her sword again and sending another surge of black energy at her opponents. This time, the attack hit! WarJawsmon, Vineyardmon, HolyHarpymon, and MagnetGolemon all got hit at the same time and took some damage. Owarimon then slithered over to Vineyardmon at high speed. When she was close enough, she wrapped Vineyardmon up in her snakelike tail. "I am not human. I'm not even a real Digimon. I have no heart, and to prove it, I'll destroy you with no remorse!" Owarimon said as she began to put the squeeze on Vineyardmon like a boa constrictor. Vineyardmon grunted as she was squeezed tighter, and tighter, and tighter. Owarimon then said in a soft and menacing tone, "Thanatos Strangle." Vineyardmon began to have the life energy absorbed from her. "Please…..forgive me…." Vineyardmon said in a soft and sad tone. "Grape Grenades!" She caused the grapes hanging from her tree branches to explode! This did damage to Owarimon and caused her to let go and slither back! Unfortunately, given the circumstance, it did damage to Vineyardmon as well.

Owarimon stood there groaning in pain for a moment. She had taken Vineyardmon's attack at point blank range. "Stone Beam Barrage!" Owarimon shouted as she shot multiple beams of energy from the stones on her body. "Tree Twirl!" Vineyardmon shouted. Vineyardmon span around quickly, during a pirouette. Her spinning deflected every energy beam Owarimon fired at her. When Vineyardmon stopped spinning, she fired another "Grape Grenades!" Owarimon countered with "Stone Beam Barrage!" The grape grenades and stone beams collided with each other! Vineyardmon's and Owarimon's attack had canceled each other out!

WarJawsmon then fired the machine guns he was holding. "Great White Gatling!" WarJawsmon shouted as the guns fired a plethora of bullets towards the snake woman Digimon. Owarimon used her snake tail to spring herself up high into the air in order to dodge WarJawsmon's attack. When she came back down, she swung her sword in his direction while shouting "Thanatos Strike!" WarJawsmon used his powerful, muscular legs to dodge the attack. "Great White Gatling!" WarJawsmon shouted, firing his guns again. Once again, Owarimon dodged by using her tail to spring herself high up into the air. While in mid-air, Owarimon aimed her chest and fired a "Super Chest Beam!" at WarJawsmon, which was an energy beam shot out of the Red Stone at the center of her chest. WarJawsmon got hit and yelled.

Emmett clenched his fists looking frustrated, then he unclenched his fists and his frustrated expression turned sad. "No, I guess you're right." Emmett said. Taylor looked over to Emmett and then over to Witchmon. "No. We don't trade lives. I'm going to save everyone, including Haruka!" Taylor said. Witchmon scoffed. "And Mirei told me you were the smartest one of the group." Witchmon said. Taylor shot Witchmon a glare and then looked away. She thought about her dad and how, if he were in this situation at her age, he'd probably try to engage in a fist fight with Witchmon and end up being turned into a toad. Taylor didn't really believe her mother about how quick her father was to throw hands as a kid until she met 12 year old Evander due to Piximon sending her into the past.

The fighting continued. HolyHarpymon fired some her Marian Arrows at Owarimon, but she deflected all of them with her sword. Right after deflecting the Marian Arrows, WarJawsmon came up from behind her, preparing to hit her in the head with one of his gatling guns. "Gun Whack!" WarJawsmon shouted. Owarimon leaned over to the side and evaded the hit, which was easy for her to do given that her lower half was a flexible snake tail rather than legs. Owarimon grabbed WarJawsmon's gun and used it to throw him up high into the air. Owarimon leaned back so that the front of her torso was facing the sky. "Super Chest Beam!" She shouted. WarJawsmon got hit with the attack directly. He couldn't dodge since Owarimon had fired the attack while he was in mid-air. WarJawsmon landed on the ground and Owarimon then slithered over to him with her sword in hand. "It's time to filet this fish!" Owarimon said, taunting him. Before Owarimon could get close enough to impale the humanoid shark man, HolyHarpymon came up from beside her and kicked Owarimon over!

WarJawsmon sat up and looked over at HolyHarpymon. "Thanks for the assist." He said. HolyHarpymon smiled. "You owe me a triple fudge sundae with sprinkles." She said. Emmett smiled. Even digivolved, his partner didn't lose her sweet tooth.

"Fire Force!" MagnetGolemon create a large ball of fire above her head and fired it at Owarimon. Owarimon got hit and took some major damage. Owarimon stood up and groaned in pain. "Darn you…..darn you!" Owarimon shouted.

MagnetGolemon flew over to WarJawsmon and HolyHarpymon. "Let's all attack her at the same time." MagnetGolemon suggested. "Sounds like a plan to me." WarJawsmon said, turning to look at Owarimon and preparing his guns. "I'm on board. The quicker we finish this, the quicker I can eat that sundae." HolyHarpymon said. Vineyardmon ran over to be closer to the other three. She looked very concerned. Sheepishly, Vineyardmon looked at Owarimon, then at her teammates, and then back at Owarimon. "Ok." She said.

"Marine Missile!" WarJawsmon shouted, firing the missile strapped to his back.

"Grape Grenades!" Vineyardmon shouted, firing the exploding grapes from the vines on the tree branches growing out of her back.

"Heaven's Charm!" HolyHarpymon shouted, making a T pose with her arm and sending out a cross shaped beam of energy from her body.

"Eruption!" MagnetGolemon shouted, blasting magma out of her arms at high pressure!

Owarimon got hit with all of the attacks simultaneously and screamed in pain! The attacks created a large smokescreen! Everyone looked at the smokescreen in an anticipation of what was to come next. Would they see Owarimon lying in defeat or would Owarimon rush out of the smokescreen for another attack? "Did we….get her?" Emmett asked. The smokescreen faded to reveal Owarimon lying on the ground moaning in pain. She was trying to get back up but was struggling. "You…..I will…..destroy…." Owarimon struggled to speak. She tried to push herself up. She managed to get halfway, but then collapsed, unconscious. "I guess that's that." HolyHarpymon said.

Wizardmon then started walking over to Owarimon. "I'll take her into my house, restrain her, and contact miss Mirei." Wizardmon said. When he got right beside of her, he knelt down and tried to pick Owarimon up. This slight bit of movement was enough to get Owarimon roused back around into consciousness. Wizardmon's eyes went wide with shock as he felt a sharp pain course through his entire body! The Elemental Four and their Digimon all looked in horror! What just happened? Wizardmon looked down to see that Owarimon had run him through with long glowing red nails! When he looked back up at Owarimon, she said, "Surprise!" "Wizardmon! No!" Witchmon shouted. Wizardmon's data dispersed into particles before reforming into a DigiEgg! However, the DigiEgg itself then disintegrated as well! The particles of Wizardmon's data were then absorbed into Owarimon's body. Owarimon smirked and licked her lips. "My master's modifications now allows me to absorb a Digimon's data like the Gizumon. Now, the Gizumon is obsolete." She said.

Witchmon clenched her fists. She was trembling and tears were streaming down her face. "W-W-W-WIZARDMON!!!!!" She screamed before collapsing to her knees. Owarimon cracked her neck to the left and then to the right. "Don't worry, you'll be joining him soon." Owarimon said. Owarimon slithered over to her. Witchmon was inconsolable. "Witchmon! Get out of there!" WarJawsmon shouted. Witchmon didn't move. It was like she had lost the will to live. "WITCHMON!" Everyone shouted in unison. Owarimon extended her red claws. They could grow and shrink at will. Her claws impaled Witchmon, and then Owarimon absorbed her data like she had Wizardmon's. Tageor fled, "Master, no!" He yelled.

Owarimon started glowing in a blackish red aura. "Ah, yes! Now, finally! The time has come!" She said ecstatically. "Digivolve!" Owarimon had now digivolved into her Ultimate form. Absorbing Wizardmon and Witchmon was just what she needed to make it to the next stage. Owarimon now appeared to have a human body not only on the top, but on the bottom as well. In place of her snakelike lower half were gray legs covered by a black skirt. The black skirt had Red Stones embroidered all around. She did have two snake tails growing out of her lower back though. Growing out of her upper back was a large snake head. Owarimon was now wearing black, knee high boots with Red Stones embroidered in the front of them.

"She digivolved…" Drusilla said softly. Taylor clenched her digivice. She was angry. Too many innocent Digimon lost their lives because Owarimon and All For One World. "We've got to take her down. It doesn't matter what she used to be! She's nothing but a monster now!" Taylor exclaimed. Owarimon pointed her sword forward and began spinning around rapidly. "What's she doing?" Emmett asked. "Whatever it is, it's not good." Drusilla said. Black energy began coming out of Owarimon Ultimate's sword and eventually, she had created a black energy tornado that surrounded her entire body. "Thanatos Explosion!" The energy vortex spread outwards like a big bang! The Ultimate level Partner Digimon reacted instinctively! They ran over to their partners and shielded them with their own bodies! The explosion of black energy enveloped them! The partner Digimon took so much damage that they reverted back to their Rookie forms by the time it was all over, unconscious.

Taylor held Sharkmon up to her chest. "Sharkmon! Sharkmon, speak to me! Please be ok! Please!" She exclaimed. Naturemon had collapsed into Martin's arms. "Naturemon! Please, wake up!" He exclaimed, shaking his partner to try to rouse her around. Drusilla was also holding her partner. "Coalmon, no!" "Dovemon!" Emmett then turned to Taylor. "We have to go Mega! Owarimon's too strong for us now!" Emmett said. Taylor clutched her partner up to her chest tightly, fearing that he might dissipate into data particles at any second. She was trembling in fear. She looked over to Emmett and barked, "In case you haven't notice, they're unconscious and badly injured! They can't fight anymore!"

Owarimon walked towards the group slowly. She dragged her sword across the beach's sand, causing a narrow groove. The one snake head protruding out of her back was staring straight at Owarimon's face. Owarimon licked her lips. "This is my purpose. This…is why I was created." Owarimon Ultimate said. Owarimon got right in front of Taylor and raised her blade to finish her and Sharkmon off. Taylor's eyes widened with shock and she began trembling violently and uncontrollably. "Mom, Dad! I'm sorry I couldn't save you!" Taylor thought as she stared death in the face. Just as Owarimon was about to bring her sword down, she heard a voice shout, "Haruka! Don't do it!" It was the snake! The snake had spoken! Owarimon looked shocked. There was that name again. She turned to look at the snake. She assumed this snake was a part of her own self, but apparently, it had a will of its own. "Wh-what did you just say?" Owarimon said. "This isn't you. This isn't my Haruka." The snake head said. Taylor was just as confused as Owarimon was. Taylor had likewise assumed that this was part of Owarimon. Did Owarimon snap and start talking to herself? Or was there another entity inside of her.

Taylor immediately made an inference to the best explanation. "You're Haruka Abe's partner, aren't you?" She said. Owarimon grabbed her head as though she was in pain again. She had flashbacks yet again. She remembered a small green snakelike Digimon who played with her all the time. "Hi! My name is Snakemon!" The small green snakelike Digimon said in a sweet little voice. The next flashback was of her holding out a digivice that looked much like the one Izzy possessed. Snakemon and herself were up against a Meramon. "Snakemon! Digivolve, now!" The light shone from the digivice and enveloped Snakemon. "Snakemon digivolve to…AreoSnakemon!" The green little snake became a much larger snake with wings, a humanoid womanly head, and a snakelike bottom half. The flashback then turned to AreoSnakemon being on the losing side of a battle with a Sandiramon. "Come on, AreoSnakemon! You can't lose this! Show that guy who's the better serpentine Digimon!" She shouted. She then had a flashback of her crest activating and causing AreoSnakemon to digivolve into Orochimon, which then took down the enemy Sandiramon. Back in the present, Owarimon grabbed her head and shuttered. "No! No! These memories aren't mine! I'm an artificially created Digimon!" Owarimon shouted.

"No…you're not." The snake head said. The snake head then turned to Taylor's direction. "I'll hold her off as long as I can! Enter the portal I'm about to make for you! You're Haruka's…no…the multiverse's only hope!" The snake head said. Taylor and the others were weirded out by this whole situation, but they decided to do what she said. After all, at this point, they had nothing to lose. The snake bit the air and caused a portal to open. Taylor looked over at her friends and said, "Guys! Let's do it!" Martin said, "But how can we trust her?" Taylor replied with, "If we stay here, we're dead anyway!" The four children got up and ran through the portal, not knowing where it would take them. Owarimon grabbed the snake head which protruded from her back and attempted to strangle her. "No! Darn you! Don't….interfere!" Owarimon said. All 4 children made it through the portal, carrying their unconscious Rookie level Digimon in their arms.