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Running to the castle, the boys had to face a ton of digimon in the same conditions as Wallace had been before. Fladramon, Pucchiemon and Gargomon opened the path to the castle but carefully to not hurt the digimon.
“Don’t you think it’s a bad bad idea to go to the enemy’s territory all alone?” Daisuke asked, stunting some of the enemies in their way with the Lighdra-Glaive.
“And do we have any other option?” Ken replied, “It was too easy to rescue Wallace-kun, this is intentional.”
“So, you think Duskmon wants us to come back?” Wallace asked, dodging from a digimon who got thrown away by Gargomon.
“Probably” Ken answered, and then Daisuke slashed against another soldier digimon coming at them.
“I don’t get it! He wanted to kill Daisuke, now he wants Daisuke to storm into his castle!?”
“I don’t understand that too!” Daisuke growled, “Can he please decide? He wants me dead or not!?”
Ken took a while to answer that. In fact, there’s some odd events and such… If this-so-called Duskmon wanted Daisuke dead … Wouldn’t he go after Daisuke while he was all alone and pretending to be a digimon?
“... Wait a minute” Ken stopped running. The rest of the group stopped and looked at him, confused, “Daisuke, he didn’t want to kill you.”
“H-Huh!?” They exclaimed.
“To be honest, he would’ve done that before if he wanted to. I guess he wanted you two to get those hidden powers first.”
“Well, he’s not going to get’em because none of us know how to get’em.” Daisuke said with an annoyed voice, shrugging “Like, do he expect us to know how to get those… Are we that smartasses to know how to unlock a power none of us knew we had until now!?”
“You’re admitting you’re not smart huh?” Wallace rolled his eyes.
“At least I wasn’t manipulated by some weirdo in googly eyes armor!”
“Googly eyes armor?” the digimon blinked.
“Um, I think he manipulated you too” Ken tried to intervene, “Because you were under his power doing awful things before.”
“... W-whatever” he blushed shamefully, “I… I don’t want to think about it now…!”
“Let’s not fight,” Wallace laughed nervously, then “Daisuke’s right, he can’t get those powers from us if we never get them first.”
“Let’s go, if we can find a way to escape from this place then let’s not waste our time!”
“Just a second, we need to let the others know” and Ken grabbed his phone from his hoodie’s pocket and called Miyako.
“The others?” Wallace blinked, “Does it mean… Miyako-san is with you? I missed her so much”
Ken immediately glanced at Daisuke with such annoyance and realized his friend was facepalming. The digimon kept confused, but Pucchiemon just saw Ken almost smash his phone.
“Did I stutter?” Ken said, with a big grin on his face. Said grin made Daisuke feel it was the same smile Ken gives to people he plans to murder slowly and painfully (ok no, he just messes with their belongings like taking all the batteries from their remote controls and unscrewing light bulbs as warning)
“So she’s not?” Wallace asked with a frown.
“LET’S NOT TALK ABOUT THAT!” Daisuke interrupted the possible fight, “Right, call Mimi-san or Iori and let them know” and he silently signaled to not mention Miyako after this. With bad mimic skills so Ken took a second (or two) to get it.
“I got a call, be quiet everyone please!” Miyako announced, and the group, hidden in a spot near to the castle’s domains, stopped chatting to let Miyako talk with Ken on the phone, “Hello? Ken-kun did you two get into the castle?”
She gasped next, “Wait, he met with your two, he was under a digimon’s control and attacked Daisuke?” The group were now babbling ‘what’ ‘huh’ ‘eh’ in the background. Miyako continued, “Ah you guys are all safe now… Huh, he can’t leave the castle’s area so you decided to go find another way by going to the castle?”
“What?” Hikari asked, Mimi was frowning, Takeru and Iori were still shocked. The digimon reactions reflected their humans’ as well.
“Oh Ok… One more thing: Why are you calling me ‘Iori-kun’!? Oh, oh … I got it. Okay, please be careful” and she hung up.
“Are they in trouble?” Mimi was still frowning, hugging Palmon a bit more tightly.
“Yeah but…”
“We should go,” she said, “I’m sure if we go after them, we can cover their weaknesses with our own abilities.”
“Mimi-san!?” They glanced at her, shocked. This wasn’t usual from her.
“Our friends are in danger, and I think we need to do something. We won’t kill the digimon like Daisuke-kun and V-mon were doing mercilessly. I won’t allow that.”
“But… what will we do-- Huh?” Hikari heard a voice and saw a sparkling light. She got up without warning the others and ran after it. Tailmon and the rest came with her, and then they met…
“Sorry for luring you in like this” A male white wolf-esque armor digimon said as the Chosen Children approached, “Don’t worry, this area is protected by the power of Light and won’t be touched by the power of Darkness.”
“Who… Who are you?” Palmon asked.
“I’m Beowolfmon. You may need my help if you want to beat Duskmon, so listen carefully.”
“Geez this castle is still creepy inside” Daisuke commented, slashing the soldiers coming in their direction to stunt them “Man, I wonder where’s the exit of this area…”
“This is still too easy though,” Ken muttered, “What does this Duskmon-guy want with us?”
“Wallace, do you remember anything that could be an exit from here? Like, a gate or a door, anything!” Daisuke asked, blocking a Pawnchessmon’s lance from hitting them. Pucchiemon used his beams to destroy every Eyesmon inside their shadows.
“Uhh… I remember there’s one strange door in the living room.”
“Right, show us the way.”
“Ok, follow me!”
“Wait you two,” Ken babbled “This is what--”
And once they destroyed the living room’s door… Duskmon was already there waiting for them.
“--he wants…” Ken completed his phrase right after both Wallace and Daisuke were captured by the Eyesmon, making them unable to move “Pucchiemo--”
But the digimon trio was hit by air slashes caused by Duskmon’s blades, throwing them and Ken to the wall. They devolved back to child level and fell on the ground, Wormmon on Ken’s lap, V-mon and Gummymon by his sides.
“Argh, I can’t move!” Daisuke tried moving the arm holding the Lighdra-Glaive, but no success. The Glaive then disappeared from his hand, maybe he still had a bit of control over himself “Ken… Leave us here and escape!”
“What!?” Ken and the digimon got up, trembling “I won’t let the enemy win..!!”
“Looks like I’ve already won” Duskmon replied calmly, “I have two powerful powers in hands”
“Heh, we don’t know how to get it so you’re not getting anything!” Daisuke smirked, but that smirk showed some weakness… Deep down he believed they all had failed.
“Now I can explain why you’re here, human child,” he said, looking at Wallace and ignoring Daisuke, “So listen carefully.”
Beowolfmon moved his hands and showed them holograms made of his light power to the children:
“In the Ancient era, there were two powers coexisting. The power of Miracles, which as the name says, is the ability to turn everything possible…”
Meanwhile Duskmon explained the same thing for the trio and their digimon:
“... And the power of Destiny, which is the power to write and rewrite any destiny. The power of Miracles existed to counter the power of Destiny, keeping it in check.”
“H-huh?” Ken reacted a bit badly, now he understood why Daisuke had been in danger and why Wallace was captured in the first place.
A bit far away from the castle, Beowolfmon continued:
“Those powers were sealed by the holy and ancient digimon as an attempt to prevent any disasters caused by both.”
“Sealed?” Miyako blinked, “So, that’s why only Qinglongmon and the Holy Beasts, and Holydramon and Seraphimon could summon them before?”
“These powers are related to a lineage of Ancient Digimon as well, and only said Digimon together can use said power.” Duskmon then added “And since I have you two here…”
“What do you mean!?” Ken asked this time, and he saw Daisuke and Wallace turning to him and the digimon trio’s direction “D-don’t tell me…!”
“Ken, run away! Don’t let… Us get-- --!!”
“Daisuke, what’s going on?!” V-mon panicked.
“... I see. The key to unlocking such powers is V-mon and Gummymon” Ken muttered, “Because they’re related to Magnamon and Rapidmon.”
“How do you know about Rapidmon?” Gummymon looked at Ken, astonished.
“Let’s say I’ve researched it…” He replied.
“So we’re the key!?” V-mon asked Ken, but Duskmon answered:
“Yes. Now you two children, give me those digimon.”
“I don’t understand how you can get those from us, but we WON’T help you!” V-mon and Gummymon roared together.
“It doesn’t matter,” Daisuke said “Now come here V-mon.”
“You too Terriermon,” Wallace added.
That already made the digimon step back, something was off. And Ken noticed it especially by the name Wallace used. Wasn’t the blonde boy referring to his partner by ‘Gummymon’ before?!
“Ken-chan, we need to do something!!” Wormmon gave Ken a nervous glare.
Beowolfmon continued, the same time as Duskmon:
“You children have created a new power with your bonds. Those weapons made by the ancient Digimentals… I can see you have infinite potential.”
“But you need more if you want to beat me. Once I have the power of destiny and miracles in my hands…”
“He will rewrite the story.”
“What!?” The kids (and Ken plus the digi-trio) exclaimed.
“So we need to go there,” Takeru said, “We need all the power we have to face this Duskmon right?”
“One question, please Beowolfmon” Hikari interrupted them, “Did you save Daisuke-kun and V-mon from getting hurt before?”
At the same time, Ken and the digimon tried to escape from Daisuke and Wallace. Only to Lekismon invade the room throwing her sleeping bombs at the boys’ shadows. The Eyesmon duo left the shadow snoozing.
“Lekismon!!” V-mon exclaimed.
“Hurry up, get out of here right now!!”
“Ugh… my head…” / “What’s... going on…” Daisuke and Wallace said at the same time, only to be grabbed by one of their arms by Ken and dragged to the outside of the living room.
“There’s no time to waste, we need to leave!!”
“You won’t leave.” Duskmon snapped his fingers (yes, he has hands which can mutate to blades) and more digimon appeared in the corridor.
“Oh no!” Wormmon exclaimed.
“What will we do, Wallace?” Gummymon asked the boy.
He looked at Daisuke and Ken.
But they didn’t need to do much, since arrows of light and energy hit from somewhere.
“What?” Daisuke blinked, then saw Takeru and Hikari running after them holding more of those digimental weapons, A crossbow made from Nefertimon data and a gun-bow made from Pegasusmon’s “T-Takeru, Hikari-chan!? Wait where you get--”
“EVERYONE, DUCK!” They heard Miyako’s voice and once they ducked a big Shuriken passed through their heads.
Gust of winds repelled all the digimon coming after the boys and their digimon, flying over their heads. Iori was hitting the enemies with the Submari-Sword in wooden sword mode, protecting the others from being hit by the enemies. Lilymon flew and used her Green Trap technique to paralyze the evil guys by releasing flowers and pollen over them.
“They all are here!” V-mon exclaimed.
“Right… We need to fight as well!” Daisuke grabbed his D-3 “Ken, let’s go!”
“Right!”
V-mon and Wormmon evolved into XV-mon and Stingmon, then jogress evolved into Paildramon. Wallace and Gummymon were shocked, they had never seen that digimon before.
“Amazing…”
“Wallace, should we fight too?”
He couldn’t answer though…
Beowolfmon stormed from the group and went directly against Duskmon. Their blades clashed and started to destroy the castle, turning it into ruins by their collision. The digimon partners (Paildramon, Fauermon, DrillDigmon, Angemon, Angewomon and Lilymon) held the kids tightly, and Daisuke also held Wallace & Gummymon to not let them fly away from the heated fight happening right there.
“Who’s that!?” Daisuke asked, but a flash passed through his mind.
The time he and V-mon almost died… A very quick light had come from nowhere and had teleported them to a realm of light for a few seconds, and when Duskmon had disappeared, they had returned to the Digital World.
“It was you…” V-mon said what Daisuke was about to say, “The one who saved us.”
Yes, it was Beowolfmon that time.