Blood in the Moonlight 2
#2 of Blood in the Moonlight
Author's Note: I don't own digimon, if I did then a weird round head would NOT have come out VenomMyotismon's groin. And I would have made VenomMyotismon into a hot male god! And yes you Wizardmon fans, there will be a Gatomon later on in the story. LOL! Chapter 2 Wizardmon banged on the wall that seperated his own room from his son's. "Hijo! Turn down the music! I won't ask you again!" "Alright, alright, viejo!" He heard his son yell and the music was turned down. "Por fin..." Wizardmon said aloud and settled back into his bed. He and his sixteen year old son Socerymon lived in the upper level of their shop in downtown Pueblo Fantasma. There they sold various potions and healing mixtures. Many digimon had turned to human based medicine, abandoning the traditional practices such as potions and the laying on of hands, so business was slow at best although there was still a group of tradtional digimon out there so they had not been put out of business completely. Wizardmon knew that his son wished to go the way of human based medicine but continued the traditional practices out of love for him. It had been a rather uneventful day but business had picked up some since the war had began. The Bloods had gotten in with the war recently and created a new wave of casualties. Digimon who were turned away from full hospitals often sought out his services. Wizardmon was just drifting off to sleep when there was a frantic banging on the shops door. He pulled on his robe and made his way downstairs. Socerymon apparently hadn't heard the banging and he assumed that he had put on his headphones. He finally saw the figure cloaked in darkness standing in the middle of his shop and nearly fainted with fright. "AYE!" he yelled. "Fantasma! AHHHHHHHH! Ayuda me!"
Vamdemon sighed when he saw the digimon screaming in terror. The digimon hastily made the sign of the cross. "Shut up you old fool," he growled. "I am not a ghost!" "Gracias a dios! W-who are you?" the Wizardmon asked in a thick latin accent. "I am Vamdemon, digivolved from Devimon..." he answered but was cut off. "Vamdemon?" the digimons eyes opened wide in fear. "Not Prince Vamdemon? AHHHHH!" Vamdemon noticed another digimon in the stairwell. "Papa! Get down, I'll save you! Crystal Barrage!" Vamdemon thought he might explode in rage and pulled his cape around him and the unconscious Angel. The attack bounced harmlessly off. "I am not Prince Vamdemon!" he roared. "Hijo! Basta!" Wizardmon yelled. "S-senor, I-I'm sorry, I can see now that you are much too young to be P-prince Vamdemon. W-what are you d-doing here?" He turned on a light and gasped when his gaze fell upon Angel. "Senor! Is that a human?" "Yes, I need your help. She's dying." he told Wizardmon. "Wait Papa! He's not Prince Vamdemon but he works for him! Why should we help Prince Vamdemon?" Socerymon yelled to his father. "I am not affiliated with that faggot! You're wasting time!" Vamdemon roared. "Socerymon, we can't just let her die. Come here and help me!" Wizardmon told his son. "Ok Papa," said as he came running over. "Put her on the table," Wizardmon told Vamdemon and he complied. "Let's take a look. Mmmmmm, her lungs have been pierced, she should be dead but I can feel that she has a strong spirit. Socerymon, we'll have to combine our powers." Vamdemon watched as the two digimon began to gesture and chant over Angels limp form, her face was pale and her breathing all but ceased. They both laid their hands on her and a soft glow enveloped her body. They stood motionless over her for nearly a minute before she began to move. She groaned softly and slowly opened eyes. The two digimon stood back and panted from the effort. She looked as if nothing had even happened to her. The blood that had covered her had disapeared and the colour returned to her face. She sat up and looked at Wizardmon and his son in confusion. "What happened? The last thing I remember..." her eyes opened wide. "Wait where's Devimon? Those fucks killed Devimon!" She jumped off of the table, fists clenched. "Where's the wolfman? I'll rip his head off." Tears filled her eyes. "I'll do it with my own hands!" "Calm down dear!" Wizardmon implored her. "What wolfman? Please sit down!" She whimpered and buried her face into her hands. Vamdemon stepped forward. "Angel, I'm not dead." She looked up in surprize and scowled. "Fuck you, you're not Devimon." Vamdemon couldn't quite surpress a chuckle. "MagnaAngemon obviously didn't explain digivolution to you. I'm Vamdemon now." She wiped away her tears and her eyes lit up in recognition. "Ok, I think I remember now. I just remember getting pissed and wailing on that mummy thing and then... well not much else but I do remember seeing you now..." "How do you feel dear?" Wizardmon asked her. "You almost didn't make it, but you were a stubborn one." "I feel like I got hit by a truck." she told him. "But I guess I can't complain." "Wow, a real human. Es hermosa." Socerymon said looking her over slowly. A little too slowly Vamdemon thought to himself. Angel who could apparently understand spanish blushed. "I'm Socerymon, it is my pleasure to meet you." He took her hand and kissed it. "I have a question, do all human women look like the same underneith their clothing?" "What?" Angel laughed. "Socerymon, that's enough." Wizardmon interjected. "Please forgive my son for being rude. I am Wizardmon, pleased to meet you my dear. What is your name?" "I'm Angel." She smiled. "Oh, how beautiful." Wizardmon replied. "It suits you well, but I must ask, what happened to you?" Angel laughed. "Well what hasn't happened in the past day and a half? Lets see I'm suppost to save the world or something, I nearly died I guess two times now, uhhhh..." "Wait, if your a Tamer," Socerymon interrupted. "Then isn't your partner suppost to protect you? Doesn't sound like he's doing a very job if you ask me." "She didn't ask you!" Vamdemon growled. "Perhaps you would like a taste of my power." Vamdemon snapped his fingers and his alpha bats appeared to nip at Socerymon. "Ahhh Papa! Make him stop!" Socerymon shouted as he swatted at the hungry bats. "Porfavor Vamdemon! He is just a child!" Wizardmon implored him. "Very well, " he told Wizardmon with grin and he snapped his fingers again. The bats left Socerymon and settled around the room to preen themselves as they eyed Socerymon hungrily. "Papa! No soy un nino! Dios!" Socerymon chided his father and turned towards Vamdemon. "You're not so tough..." Vamdemon growled in frustration. "You naive little fool. You have no idea about the power I posses. I could..." Angel grabbed his arm. "Oh quit the macho act." Vamdemon had to laugh, the little human continued to surprize him at every turn. Wizardmon stepped in between them all. "Why doesn't everyone calm down?" "Perhaps it is time we took our leave, we have some unfinished business." Vamdemon told Angel and turned to Wizardmon. "I'm afraid you've found me a little short changed at the moment Wizardmon but I have dealt with you in the past when I was Devimon so you know I'm as good as my word, I'll settle up later." Wizardmon's eyes lit up. "Of course, Devimon. I remember now. But wait, what is going on? How are you with MagnaAngemon? I thought the Ten Digimon and Tamers had already been choosen." "Yah, you look like the bad guy," Socerymon said. "Hey Angel, is he your real partner? We'll protect you if he's not!" Vamdemon growled, his patience running out and he picked up Angel with out a word and opened a portal back to the strip club. This time he knew VenomWereGarurumon and his lackeys would have no chance against him. His alpha bats left thier perches and assembled around him to accompany him through the portal. As they traveled through the portal Vamdemon felt a force tugging at the back of his mind. Thinking it to be another one of VenomWereGarurumons lackeys he tried to push the intrusion away with his mind but the force insisited and all at once his travel was halted with in the portal. "So this is the one who would dare to stop me." A deep voice echoed in the darkness. Vamdemon recognized the voice and held Angel tight against him. "PRINCE Vamdemon." he sneered. "The one and only..." Vamdemon laughed. "It would seem not, your Royal Faggotness." "Faggot?" The voice laughed. "Resorting to petty insults are we? You may be a Vamdemon by name but all I see is a foolish young digimon that has no idea of what it means to wear that mantle. You may think that you know of darkness but you have yet to experience TRUE darkness. I can see right into your wretched heart." "Shut up old man!" Vamdemon spat. The old fool was already getting on his nerves. "Always with the threats and insults to cover what you really feel deep inside. Loneliness. Deep heart wrenching loneliness." "I said shut up you fucking retard!" he roared. "Grisly Wing!" He could hear his attack echo in the darkness but nothing happened. "What do you think you're trying to hide from me? Ha ha ha! Afraid the girl might hear about how your heart aches? About LadyDevimon? Oh yes. I can see EVERYTHING." "Hey bozo, can you tell what I'm thinking?" Angel yelled into the darkness. "Go suck a cock? Ha ha ha. Brave little thing aren't you? But you are just the same as your partner. Desperately alone. How nice that you found eachother." "You stupid fuck," Angel spat. "How cliche. 'Oh you are soooo lonely!' Give me a fucking brake, your psycho babble doesn't work on me. It's boring. I'll bet you're the one who's lonely." "Girl, I find your sense of humour refreshing, you're..." Angel cut him off. "Oh, don't go and change the subject! I think you are lonely. Why else would you be here talking to us? If you wanted a buddy so badly why didn't you just say so?" She laughed and continued. "We could all go down to the beach, smoke some weed and get wasted, then we'd all solve eachothers problems right, no more loneliness... maybe we could even have a little 'menage et trois', what do you say?... stupid fuck." There was no reply and Vamdemon felt the blow. It hit him right on the back of the head and it would have sent him flying except that in the portal there was no up, no down, no anywhere. The darkness faded as he reached his destination. He almost dropped Angel as he phazed back into reality in the middle of the strip club. He felt enraged beyond belief. Angel hit him with a barrage of questions. "Are you alright? What happened? Did he hit you?" "Shut up!" he snapped at her as he put her down. "Fuck you then." She snapped back at him and turned presumably to leave but he caught her by the shoulder. "We're not having a repeat incident." he told her through clenched teeth. "Well, if I remember correctly the 'incident' took place because you LANDED on me!" "YOU were the one impeading my ability to fly properly!" "Then you should have left me on the ground!" She shouted in his face. By all that was unholy, she was stubborn, Vamdemon thought to himself. He looked up and noticed the crowd disapearing in panic around them. VenomWereGarurmon and his lackeys came running from the side of the room. This time a Beelzemon, Puppetmon and SkullMeramon was with them. He pulled Angel against him with one arm and rose into the air to gain a better vantage point. His bats flitted about him and he laughed as he unleashed his pent up frustration on the digimon below. "Crimson Lightning!" The attack hit three of the six digimon square in the chest. He let his energy whip fly as he punished the ignorant fools. He noticed that VenomWereGarurumon had advoided his main assult and was trying to sneak around to attack him from behind. "Grisly Wing!" He unleashed a torrent of bats from his outstreched hand toward the imbecile. He knew the digimon would dodge the attack and jump at him. "Poison Wolf Claw!" The expected attack came. He laughed in delight as his boot caught the digimon square in the stomache. VenomWereGarurumon dropped to the ground doubled over in pain. "Who's next?" he taunted the group. The Beelzemon pointed his shotgun at him and fired. "Double Impact!" Vamdemon drew his cape around him and Angel and the attack deflected off. He laughed harder. "Puppet Pummel!" Vamdemon reached out with his mind and dinstintigrated the attack before it had even reached half way to him. He had never tasted such power when he had been Devimon, he exulted in the knowledge that the digimon before him, even the mega levels could not hope to come close to his power. "Who wants to die first?" he asked the group and his eyes settled upon Ravemon. "Did you enjoy your first homosexual experience with ChaosPiedmon?" Vamdemon taunted him. "You ain't nothin' but white trash. Look at you, all pale and shit, you look like a motherfuckin' cancer patient!" "It might be that I'm just still feeling a bit peckish." He grinned revealing two gleaming fangs. "What the FUCK? You're a leech too!" Ravemon asked increduously as it summoned it's battle armour. "You're going DOWN motherfucker!" "Blast Wing!" The fool took to the air and attempted to slice him with it's silver wing. "Nightmare Claw!" The attack caught Ravemon in the middle of his back and he fell to the ground twitching. "And how about you two?" He asked SkullMeramon and Mummymon. "I've just beaten down all the megas, think a couple of ultimates can do better?" he laughed when the two digimon hesitated. The feeling of supreme authority was nearly intoxicating. "You overconfident spook!" VenomWereGarurumon growled at him. "You think you've beaten ME down? You're just a coward floating up there like a Kazemon, taking cheap shots at us! Come down here, let go of your little whore and fight like a mon!" "Very well," Vamdemon snapped his fingers and his bats appeared to surround Angel and they lowered her to ground slowly. They continued to surround her, menacingly daring anyone to come near. Vamdemon laughed as he floated to the ground to stand infront of VenomWereGarurumon. "You wish to dance then. Will you lead or shall I?" Vamdemon taunted him. "You arrogant bastard, you think I would just walk in here and face you unarmed?" This time the werewolf laughed. "You see I know your weakness..." "You stupid beast." Vamedmon scolded. "Surely you don't mean my dear little Angel? Hmmmph, you would see her as my weakness wouldn't you? But she has turned out to be my greatest asset hasn't she? I will beat you down like the dog you are! Now lay down and roll over! Crimson Lightning!" He lashed out with his lightning whip at the fool. The lightning hit him square in the face and left a searing mark that destroyed one of the digimon's eyes. "Arrrrggggg! Get HIM in here!" VenomWereGarurumon shouted. From his perifrial vision Vamdemon could see a Angewomon escorting a tightly bound and bloodied MagnaAngemon and he laughed. "What? That is suppost to scare me?" "Let's find out... let him go Angewomon!" The Angewomon grinned evily and undid MagnaAngemons bonds. He slumped to the ground and slowly gained his feet. VenomWereGarurumon held out a black gem of some sort. "MagnaAngemon, attack Vamdemon..." MagnaAngemon advanced forward slowly. A little too slowly. Vamdemon could see that he was fighting whatever force had control of him. Vamdemon smirked at Venom WereGarurumon. "You don't even have complete control over him you stupid mutt." "Well I'll just have to fix that now won't I?" He pulled out a second gem. "MagnaAngemon DESTROY VAMDEMON!" MagnaAngemon shuddered briefly and he looked up at Vamdemon, his eyes dull and lifeless. Vamdemon stared at him unsure. He didn't particularily like the uppity angel digimon but niether did he hate him. MagnaAngemon broke into a full run at him and activated excaliber. Vamdemon braced himself for the attack but the digimon stopped short. "Gate of Destiny!" All other digimon in the room scattered at the sight of MagnaAngemon performing his famed attack. Vamdemon turned to Angel. "Run!" he shouted. She hesitated but took off towards the other side of the club, the bats followed her. Satisfied he turned back to MagnaAngemon and the force of the gates suction hit him like a freight train, threatening to pull him in. His cape whipped around him and MagnaAngemon raised excaliber to attack him...
- * * Angel could feel the massive pull from MagnaAngemon's attack and she understood why Vamdemon had told her to run. The bats which hovered about her protectively were suddenly hard pressed just to avoid being sucked in. MagnaAngemon who was obviously under some evil spell raised his amethyst sword to attack Vamdemon. The way she had witnessed her partner toying with the werewolfs lackeys, she knew that he was incredibly powerful but she had a feeling that this was different. The angel digimon, a being of light, probably had a distinct advantage over Vamdemon. She knew she had to do something, he had risked his life for her twice. She knew he could have just left her but he hadn't. She wanted to return the favour. She had seen the werewolf holding some sort of black diamonds toward MagnaAngemon and an idea sprung into her mind. She knew she had the advantage over the distracted werewolf and he was probably too cocky to even consider her a threat. Angel had shown the mummy and now she would show the werewolf. She looked around for a weapon. The leg of a broken over turned table would do nicely she thought to herself. She doned the weapon and made her way towards the group of digimon that huddled in the corner. She forced herself to look away from the fight which would only distract her. The pull of the golden gate slowed her progress somewhat but she knew she had nothing to loose if her partner lost the fight so she endured. With their attention on the dueling pair, the Bloods didn't even see her approach. She swatted at the bats to keep them behind her. Now if only she could get her hands on the diamonds. Angel gathered all her courage and used the pull of the gate to her advantage. She let the gate pull her towards the werewolf and swung the wooden leg with all her might. It connected with the back of his head and he fell forwards dropping one of the diamonds. It rolled across the floor towards the gate. "Vamdemon!" She screamed. "The diamond!" She pointed to the rolling stone and her partner turned to her. He saw the stone a moment later and ducked MagnaAngemon's wild swing of the amethyst sword and jumped on the stone. He held it out towards the digimon. "Stop!" He bade MagnaAngemon. A pair of hands grabbed Angel as she lay on the floor. "Now we've got... ahhhh!" Angel could hear the bats as they nipped at the digimon. Angel turned to see the blue flame man standing over her swatting at the bats. She tried to get up but was grabbed again, this time by the tall demonic looking biker man with spikey blonde hair. "You ain't goin' nowhere sweetie." he told her with a sly grin. Some of the bats left the flame man to nip at the demon man. "Annoying little pests... Double Impact!" "Watch it Beelzemon!" The flame man shouted as Beelzemon's attack barely missed his head. Suddenly the massive suction ceased and Angel feared that Vamdemon had been pulled in. She let out a sigh of relief when she saw he hadn't. He did however seem to be fighting for his life against MagnaAngemon. She figured that either the werewolf had more diamonds or the diamonds themselves needed to be destroyed before the evil spell could be broken. Vamdemon held his lightning whip between both hands despretely trying to push back the amethyst sword that threatened to cut him in two. Angel growled and snatched the shotgun from the distracted demon man. She pointed it at MagnaAngemons head and pulled the trigger before she had time to talk herself out of it. The backlash from the weapon knocked her right out the demons grasp and she almost fell flat on her face but amazingly her aim was true. The bullets didn't appear to pierce his skin but he was layed out flat. Vamdemon looked at the source of the attack that had just taken down his opponent and scowled. She felt a clawed hand on her shoulder and she froze in terror. She looked up into the rage filled face of VenomWereGarurumon. "You little SLUT! I will devour you alive!" he roared in her face as he turned her to face him. "I hope I make you puke!" she spat back at him. The bats flew at the werewolfs face but he ignored them and grinned revealing gleaming fangs. "I think I will eat your heart first." he purred. "Did you forget about me? Nightmare Claw!" The werewolf ducked Vamdemon's attack. "Crimson Lightning!" The energy whip wrapped around her arm and she was yanked away from the werewolf into Vamdemon's arms. "You stupid human, you just don't..." he scolded as they took to the air. She knew that he was just bitter from his near defeat at MagnaAngemon's hands. "Oh stuff it!" she snapped at him. "Just get the crystals or whatever the hell they are from the fucking wolfman over there!" She watched MagnaAngemon rise slowly. He reminded her of a zombie. When Vamdemon made no move to regard the werewolf Angel knew that he was going to attack MagnaAngemon. Fucking arrogant male, Angel thought to herself as she kicked him. "Don't even think about it! God! You can kick the werewolfs ass so just do it and quit wasting your time on an obvious effort in futility." she yelled at him. "Hurry, before he opens that gate again!" She could feel him tensing in anger but he turned toward the werewolf and dropped from the air. "Watch my back," he growled at her. "VenomWereGarurumon, you bastard! Crimson Lightning!" Vamdemon shot out his lightning whip at the werewolf and it wrapped around his neck. "Finally! ARRRGGGHH!" He pulled the werewolf toward him and grabbed his muzzle. Angel blinked in surprize as she watched her partner bite viciously into the werewolf's neck and begin to feed. He pressed the werewolf to the ground and continued to suck the blood from the still living digimon. Angel was distracted by MagnaAngemon who seemed to have fully recovered from her attack. "Vamdemon get the diamonds!" she yelled at him in frustration. He looked up with blooding trickling down his chin and noted the rapidly approaching MagnaAngemon. He stood and kicked the werewolf in the face before snatching three more gems from the werewolfs hand. He dropped all four gems to the ground and crushed them beneith his boot. MagnaAngemon stopped and clutched his hands to his head as he screamed in agony. He fell to the ground and sat up a moment later. Angel looked up and noticed that the other digimon had disapeared and breathed a long sigh of relief. MagnaAngemon looked around in confusion but smiled when his gaze fell upon her. He looked pretty beat up but coherant. She walked over and reached a hand to help him up. He took it and stood. He looked at both her and Vamdemon and bowed his head sadly. "I'm so sorry, I could have destroyed you both." he apologized. "Don't worry about it." Angel told him. "But I think we should get out of here before our buddies return. If the digimon gangs are anything like human gangs then we shouldn't hang around too long." Angel noted the blood soaked werewolf trying to rise and turned to her partner. "God, put that thing out of it's misery!" Both Vamdemon and MagnaAngemon regarded her with a surprized look but then Vamdemon smiled wickedly. "Gladly." he replied as he turned toward the werewolf. "Grisly Wing!" Bats poured from his outstretched hand to encompass the prone digimon. In a few moments nothing remained of the Blood's leader. "I'm afraid I cannot fly in my condition. I used the last of my energy attacking you Vamdemon." MagnaAngemon told her partner. "Well, I cannot take both of you through a portal." Vamdemon replied crossing his arms. "And it seems that cocksucker Prince Vamdemon can reach me through the portal anyway. So what do you suggest?" "Your buddy Wizardmon lives in this city doesn't he?" Angel asked Vamdemon. "Yes." "Well it looks like MagnaAngemon might need a patch job first off. And as for getting us there..." Angel grinned. "Just leave that to me. I have an idea." She turned toward the front door. "Let's blow this joint." Both digimon followed her out the door into the night outside and she looked around and smiled when she saw the line of cars trying to get out of the club. She put her finger to her lips. "Choices, choices..." Her eyes settled on a silver 1980 Trans Am near the front of the line. "Come on!" She ran to the door of the Trans Am and opened it. A middle eastern looking lion man growled at her. "Vamdemon, take care of this." She bade her partner. "I'd be delighted." he replied as he reached to grab the lion man by his dark mane. He tossed him out of the car onto the sidewalk. The lion man who was obviously very intoxicated fell face first and didn't move. Angel looked inside the car. "Sweet, a four speed! Ok MagnaAngemon, in the back." She slid the seat forward and let him in. He slumped in the seat exhausted. "I can't drive." Vamdemon told her in an irritated voice. "HAH! Who says I was going to let you drive anyway? Just give me directions." She got in the drivers seat and adjusted it while Vamdemon got in the passenger side. She buckled her seat belt and took a deep breath. A car honked behind her when she stalled out the car. "Dammit!" She slammed the steering wheel with her fists and Vamdemon groaned as she restarted the car. She revved the engine and grinned with delight. "Ok, left or right?" "Take this left and I'll tell you when to turn again." "Got it!" she punched the gas. "Hang on gentlemen, let's see what this little firebird can do! Ha ha ha!" She cranked the steering wheel and the tires squeeled as the vehicle was thrown into a 360. When the car righted itself she looked at her partner who was glaring fiercely at her. "Don't do that again!" he growled. "You know I can't make you any promises right?" She said as she winked at him. This was the most fun she had had in a long time. The city was brightly lit with many clubs and casinos that reminded her of Las Vegas. She looked at the cassette stereo and pushed the play button. She chuckled as 'In the Navy' began to play on the stereo. "That guy was listening to this? Hey!" She watched in dismay as her partner ejected the tape and threw it out the window. "Geez you are boring." She continued on in silence with Vamdemon giving occasional directions until she noticed a motorcycle coming up on them fast in the side view mirror. She squinted trying to deciepher the identity of the rider. "Beelzemon?" she murmered to herself. She watched the rider pull out a shotgun and aim it at their car. "Hang on guys, this is going to get really crazy!" She punched the accelerater and everyone was thrown back in their seats. She swerved back and forth trying to shake the motorcycle but the digimon was obviously a skilled rider. "What? Beelzemon?" Vamdemon asked as he stuck his head out the window. A shotgun blast whistled past his head. "Get your head in here!" she yelled as she pulled him back in. She narrowly missed rear ending a Cadillac. She swerved and weaved around the traffic in a desperate attempt to lose the motorcycle but the confident rider kept right on her tail. After many minutes of the futile attempt to out run the motorcycle she looked at her partner. "I can't lose him and I don't know this city! But I have an idea. This might hurt a lot so everyone brace yourselves!" She waited until the motorcycle was directly behind her and slammed on the brakes with all of her might. The force of the stop sent the car into a uncontrolable spin and Angel hung onto the steering wheel for dear life. Then came the deafening slam of the motorcycle as it crashed into the car. Glass shattered and metal crumpled around the cars occupants and the Trans Am flipped to land upside down on the roof. It skidded down the road for many seconds leaving a long trail of sparks behind it before finally coming to a stop. Angel felt dizzy as she hung upside down held in by her seat belt and tried to shake away the feeling of complete disorientation. She groaned painfully as she tried to move her arms and legs. She looked to her right and saw Vamdemon crawling out through the window. He bent and placed his hands under the roof in an attempt to flip the vehicle right side up. Angel could see his muscles flex with the incredible effort but he seemed to manage it easily enough and a moment later the car was right side up. Angel undid her seat belt and looked in the back seat. MagnaAngemon looked a little shaken up but no worse for the wear. She tried to slide the seat forward but wasn't surprized when it didn't budge. "Sorry, I can't move it." she told him. He activated the amethyst sword on his arm and she stood back while he cut his way out of the car. "I hope I didn't scare you too much with my driving there." she laughed. "Double Impact!" "Crimson Lightning!" Angel and MagnaAngemon turned their heads toward the fighting. Vamdemon floated in the air above Beelzemon who didn't appear to have a scratch on him. Angel cursed. "Can't digimon just die like humans?" "Beelzemon is a high level digimon." With that MagnaAngemon turned, presumeably to join the fighting but he was limping badly so Angel caught him by the arm. "Don't worry, he'll be fine." She told him and he nodded. "Double Impact," Beelzemon fired another shot at Vamdemon but it bounced off his cape. She could hear Beelzemon growling in frustration. "I'm just getting started vampire!" Beelzemon shouted at Vamdemon. "Beelzemon mode change to... BLAST MODE!" Angel watched with fasination as the digimon underwent a strange transformation. Two dark wings appeared on his back and one of his shot guns transformed into a massive bazooka of some sort. "Chew on this! Death Slinger!" He aimed the bazooka at Vamdemon and unleashed an energy charge. Angel assumed that Vamdemon would dodge the attack but instead he drew his cape around himself and took the hit. He was thrown backwards against a building and glass shattered around him. A crowd of digimon gathered to watch the fight. MagnaAngemon looked on with concern but Angel squeezed his arm. "He's a little arrogant but I have faith in him." Vamdemon fell to the ground and he looked up at Beelzemon with pure hatred as he regained his feet. Instead of attacking he ran towards the digimon who had no time to bring his weapon to bare. He clenched his fist and belted Beelzemon in the head. The stunned digimon stumbled backwards a few steps and dropped the bazooka. Beelzemon unleashed a feral growl and swung his fist at Vamdemon. The blow connected with his jaw. He punched Beelzemon back and they continued exchanging blows back and forth and the digimon appeared to be evenly matched. Angel heard a heavy foot step behind her and she turned around to find Mummymon and Ravemon glaring at her. "Damn you look fine bitch. I think I'm gonna enjoy poppin' your pussy." Ravemon told her. "Hey if isn't King Tut and Big Homie the Homo Bird." Angel replied with a grin as she crossed her arms over her chest. "What?" Ravemon asked he cocked his head sideways. "Big Homie the Homo Bird? You wish hoe. I'm 100 hetro-sexual baby and tonight I'm gonna give you the ride of your life and your little virgin vampire won't be able to stop me. You'll be screamin' MY name by mornin' bitch!" "You're not going to be giving anything, BITCH!" An enraged MagnaAngemon jumped infront of her and activated his amethyst sword. Angel watched as he drew a huge circle in the air with it. "Gate of Destiny!" The gate rotated and opened. Mummymon and Ravemon back pedaled but MagnaAngemon ran to grab each of them and swung them into the gate. Angel ran from the gate to avoid being sucked in and turned to see Vamdemon rolling on the ground wrestling with Beelzemon. She looked back to MagnaAngemon as the gate closed and saw him fall to his knees and she ran back to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. She was shocked to see him begin to emit a glowing energy and drew back her hand. He shuddered and appeared to shrink upon himself and when the glow faded an orange and white creature the size of a cat sat looking up at her. "Oh dear, how embarressing!" He said as tears filled it's eyes. "I want to be big and strong again! Wahhhh!" Angel was unsure if the digimon was even MagnaAngemon but she figured that if digimon could digivolve to a more powerful form then it was conceivable that they could un-digivolve. He jumped into her arms and nuzzled her. "But I made the bad guys go away." He told her and she had to laugh. "You sure did." "Yeah, I was awesome!" MagnaAngemon exclaimed happily. Angel turned her attention back to Vamdemon just in time to see him finish off Beelzemon with his Grisly Wing attack. He looked at her and then at MagnaAngemon who sat nestled in her arms. He smirked and made his way over to them although Angel could see that he was limping slightly. His nose was bleeding and a black eye was forming but he looked relatively uninjured. "What happened to you huh?" Vamdemon asked MagnaAngemon in a haughty voice. "I turned back into Patamon, but I got TWO of the bad guys, you only got one! So there!" Patamon flew out of her arms with his wing ears and stuck his tongue out at Vamdemon. Angel laughed as her partner scowled deeply. "You stupid little rat!" He spat. "Just drop it Vamdemon." Angel told him. "Ok so now what? I don't think the car's going to start anymore." She gestured to the smashed up vehicle and shrugged innocently. "I wanna go home!" Patamon said as he flew to land on Angels shoulder. He nuzzled into her neck happily as she stratched his head. Vamdemon's eyes narrowed as he watched them. "Well "home" is over a thousand miles away for you rat!" He growled. "Oh no! You're right." Patamon began to sob uncontrolably. "Hey don't worry, we'll get you home." She told him with a smile. "Speak for yourself. I'm finished with Holy Forces." Vamdemon interjected. "Hey what's wrong with you?" she snapped at him. "Nothing is wrong with me. I never wanted to be a part of this in the first place. Now that you have your darling flying rat, I can finally take my leave." "You're mean! I don't like you!" Patamon yelled at Vamdemon. "You can't just leave me here!" Angel implored him. "Shut up you!" He pointed at Patamon and then pointed at Angel. "I told you, I'm finished with the Forces and I'm most certainy finished with YOU! I already got what I needed from you, so now you're useless to me. I don't even need to digivolve to mega anymore." He smirked at Patamon. "Thanks to you I am now the most powerful digimon in the Digital World but I don't care about your holy war or Prince VamFaggotmon either." He turned his cold gaze back to Angel. "And it doesn't look like you need me anymore either now that you have your boyfriend. So our business with eachother is finished." "What the hell? You're a fucking jerk!" Tears filled her eyes as she looked at the growing crowd of digimon. She didn't want to be left alone to face them. Vamdemon turned to walk away but she caught his shoulder. "Please, I'm sorry but what's wrong with you? You're acting all weird." "Let go of me." he growled dangerously as he turned and continued walking. "He's just jealous," Patamon declared in a matter of fact voice. "Because you like ME more! I'm nicer than HIM!" Angel wiped away her tears, suddenly it all made sense, he was really just jealous because he thought she was attracted MagnaAngemon, even if he was just a flying gerbil right now. If he was acting jealous then that meant that he cared about her. She wasn't sure how to take that. She never really had any man care for her before. She watched him as he stalked down the street angrily. She laughed as she ran to catch up with him. "Hey Vamdemon, you obviously haven't looked in the mirror have you?" She called to him. He turned to face her with a puzzled look. "What is that suppost to mean?" He growled. She stopped when she caught up to him. "No, I'm serious, look." She pointed to a shop window and Vamdemon groaned as he peered in it. A look of surprize grew across his face slowly but then his stern demeanour returned a moment later. "I don't understand." He told her looking thoroughly irritated. She took an unsteady breath. "Look Vamdemon, if you think that I don't like you then you're crazy." She could feel the heat rising to her cheeks. "If you were in my world, you'd probably be some sort of underwear model or something..." She covered her face with her hands and peeked through her fingers. "Ha ha ha! You stupid human, how insulting. You actually think that I have feelings for YOU? How absurd." He looked down on her with an arrogant smirk. For the first time since she'd been in the Digital World Angel wanted to go home. Her whole face burned with embarressment. "No, well I don't know..." Patamon flew infront of Vamdemon. "Don't be mean to her you stupid head! Boom Bubble! Pah!" He fired an air bubble into Vamdemon's face. "You just sealed your fate pretty angel boy!" Vamdemon growled angrily as he snatched Patamon from the air. "Ahhhhh! Put me down YOU or I'll... I'll..." Patamon ordered Vamdemon. "Or you'll what?" Vamdemon sneered. "Or maybe I'll digivolve and then you'll be sorry! Oh you coward!" Patamon shouted as he struggled in Vamdemon's grasp. "Hah!" Vamdemon spat and he began to squeeze Patamon. Angel who suddenly felt fed up of Vamdemon ran up to him and began to pound her fists on his chest. "Stop it you prick!" she screamed. She knew she couldn't hurt him, but she didn't care. "You care that much about him? Then here!" He pushed her away and threw Patamon at her. She mananged to catch him with out hurting him. "Fuck you, I hope you rot in hell." she growled darkly as she broke into a run and left Vamdemon behind. She kept going for many minutes until she couldn't run anymore and finally stopped to catch her breath. She looked around and saw that the street was relatively empty and breathed a sigh of relief. "Are you alright Patamon?" she asked as she leaned against a window. Tears filled her eyes and her face still burned with embaressment. "I'm fine now." he replied. "But don't listen to him, you're not stupid. You're really smart and brave too." She buried her face in her hands. How could she be so stupid as to actually let herself think that he cared about her? She had thought that maybe after he had gone out of his way to save her so many times that perhaps he did care but as he had pointed out he had only saved her so that he could digivolve or maybe because he thought that there might be something else in it for him. "I feel like punching myself..." She sobbed. "Why?" Patamon asked innocently. Get a grip, she thought to herself and she wiped her eyes. "Ok Patamon, which way is home?" "Oh Angel, we can't walk there by ourselves." Patamon told her as he flew off her shoulder to hover infront of her. "It's dangerous! There are too many beast type digimon and it's SO far." "I know but don't worry, I'll get us home. I'll just have to get us another car." "Oh ok, just as long as you don't do any of that crazy stuff you did before." "Whatever do you mean?" She asked with feigned innocence and smiled widely. "But I have a question." She asked him. "What is mega and ultimate? Some digimon just seem stronger then others, do those names have anything to do with it?" "Yeah it does, mega is the highest level before that is ultimate and before that is champion and even before that is rookie. I'm a rookie right now but when I'm big and strong I'm ultimate." "I see, so a champion is not very strong then?" "Well champions can be very strong too. Devimon was a champion and he got away from the base. I was mad when he did that!" "Oh ok, well let's try to pick a car that doesn't have an ultimate or a mega at the wheel at least, alright?" "What?" "Uhhh, ok, I guess I'll need a weapon..." "You're not going to hit someone are you? That's bad!" Angel laughed. "You're one to talk, didn't I just watch you take out two digimon?" "Yeah, but they were trying to hurt you. I just wanted to protect you." "Well, we can't just walk the streets, if you haven't noticed I'm a human and I kind of stick out. Any Prince Vamdemon supporters are likely to shoot me on site or capture me... oh hey wait. You'd have supporters too. Where can we find some?" "Angel, I don't know." He flew to land on her shoulder again. "Most of them are hidden because that meanie Prince Vamdemon tries to hurt them. He makes me so mad!" Angel carefully eyed a pair of cactus digimon that sported huge somberos as they floated by slowly. When they had walked out of ear shot she whispered to Patamon. "That's what I mean, everyone is looking at me! God, we have to get off the streets but we have no place to go!" Tears filled Patamon's eyes and he began to sniff. "Oh I wish I could digivolve again. I just wanna be big and strong, not a useless flying rat!" "Hey, come on, you're not a flying rat alright?" She took him off her shoulder. "And you're not useless, if it weren't for you I would probably have been raped and killed or tortured." "Oh Angel, you're so nice." Patamon said as he nuzzled her. "I wish you could have been MY partner. Then I would take care of you and protect you forever and ever." "You're making me blush." She laughed. "Angel, I'm tired and I'm hungry." Patamon told her as he looked up at her from her arms. "Well we were trying to get to Wizardmon before we got side tracked by Beelzemon and those other goons, so maybe we should keep trying to find him. Do digimon have phone books?" "Yeah on computers. Are we going to call someone?" "Yes, Wizardmon seemed nice, I'll bet he'll help us." "Do you think he has something to eat?" Angel chuckled. "I'm sure he does. But where can we find a computer to use?" "In someones house maybe?" "I don't think it's a good idea to go around door to door Patamon." Angel stratched her head in thought. "Wait does the Digital World have churches? Because if you guys have churches then I'll bet there would be someone decent in there." "Oh Angel, what a good idea! We do have churches! I used to have my own before that big meanie Prince Vamdemon came and started doing bad things." "Oh you were a priest or something?" Angel asked increduously. "Yeah, I was." Patamon replied proudly. "That's really cool. Well let's get going, I'll bet after a while we'll just walk past one." Angel was careful to keep a low profile as she walked along. She held Patamon in her arms who had fallen alseep almost instantly. She passed casinos, restaurants, bars and hotels but had not seen one church. The Digital World was a strange place, the whole town reminded her of Las Vegas mixed with an old Western town. Some of the town even had wooden sidewalks and in those areas there were many saloons and old town looking digimon. For the rest of the city, there were many other strange digimon most of whom stopped to watch her walk past. She could hear them whipsering to one another. She could occasionally pick a word or two like 'Holy Forces' and 'Prince Vamdemon'. She walked quickly to avoid any confrontations however with it being the middle of the night, there were not too many digimon walking the streets. After Angel had been walking for two or three hours she came upon a plain white building with a cross on it and nearly cried with relief. She shook Patamon awake. "Hey I think I found a church." Patamon slowly opened his eyes and looked around confused but when his eyes rested upon he smiled sleepily. "Oh yah that's a Catholic church." "Just like a human Catholic church?" she asked. "I guess so." Patamon replied. "Why would digimon worship a human god?" She chuckled. "Why not?" "Can't argue with that I guess." she chuckled again. "Well if you must know, some digimon do worship digimon gods but usually only the beast type do." "Ok, well let's see if there's anyone home." Angel took a deep breath and strode up to the plain wooden door. At least she knew about Catholic churches with her being a catholic and knew that most were kept open all night. She could only hope that the same held true for the Digital World. She push the door and to her immense relief it opened. She dipped her fingers in the holy water provided in the entrance and made the sign of the cross. Patamon did the same but instead used his wings. She held back a chuckle at the adorable display. She looked at Patamon. "You ready? I mean who knows who we'll find in there." "What do you mean Angel?" Asked Patamon. "A priest is always nice." "In a perfect world maybe..." "Huh?" "Never mind. Let's just go in." Angel pushed open the door leading into the main part of the church. Candles burned on the alter and at the foot of the Jesus and Mary statues. The pews were empty and there didn't seem to be a soul present. Angel walked over to the statues. "Let's pray," she suggested to Patamon as she lit a candle at the foot of the Virgin Mary and Jesus respectively. "Ok." Both human and digimon closed their eyes. Angel prayed for peace in both worlds but as an after thought she prayed that where ever her partner was that he was ok. She swallowed the lump that formed in her throat sadly and opened her eyes. Patamon was looking at her expectantly. "Are you ready?" he asked. "Yah," she answered. Angel found the door to the rest of the church back behind the alter. Unsure she knocked. She was surprized when it opened a minute later. A tall two winged angel with short dark hair and smokey green eyes dressed red and white opened the door. He drew back in surprize at the human standing infront of him but smiled a moment later when he spied Patamon in her arms. "How can I help one of the chosen?" he asked in soft, kind voice. "We're trying to get home." Patamon told him as he hovered infront of the angel. "Home?" he asked as he cocked his head. "I need to go home so I can lead the Holy Allied Forces, they need me!" Patamon answered. "Wait, you're Lord MagnaAngemon?!" the angel exclaimed. "Well I will be when I digivolve again. Which I hope is soon!" "I am honoured my Lord." the angel prostrated himself before Patamon and Angel had to fight the urge to laugh the sight of the tall angel bowing before the small digimon. "And you were worried the priest might not be nice!" Patamon said to Angel. "Lots of priests aren't nice in the human world, that's all." Angel told him. "I am Piddomon. How can I be of service to the Forces my Lord? My resources though limited they may be are at your disposal." the angel said as he stood. "Patamon," Angel turned him. "I don't think that he can take us all the way to your base. If digimon churches are anything like human churches then he has few possesions and such." She looked at Piddomon. "Father, do you know of anyone who has contact with the Forces?" "No," he replied solemnly. "I have purposely kept myself out of that loop so that I could continue to help digimon here. The less I know the better, otherwise I could be interrogated and possibly harm the cause. Many priests and clergy left to join the Holy Forces, however I realized that there would still be need of churches so I remained here to serve God." Angel looked at Patamon. "I think that if we hang around here too long Father Piddomon is going to have Prince Vamdemon come down on him. Infact if anyone saw us coming in here then... well, I would prefer not to think about that. I think that maybe we should still look for Wizardmon. He probably is in a better position to help us or at least can point us in the right direction for help." "I agree Angel, I don't Piddomon to get hurt." Patamon said. "You are searching for someone? Perhaps I can help with that." Piddomon smiled softly. "Yes we are looking for a healer Wizardmon and his son Socerymon. They're hispanic if that helps." Angel told Piddomon. "Well lets look on the computer." Piddmon told her. Piddomon led them into the back of the church. It was parsley furnished but functional. Patamon flew infront of Piddomon. "I don't mean to be a bother but I'm so hungry! Maybe I can digivolve sooner if I eat something!" "Of course my Lord." Piddomon bowed slightly. When they sat in the small kitchen eating a simple but delicious stew Angel began to wonder what had happened to MagnaAngemon when they had found Devimon in the swamp. "Hey Patamon, how did you get captured? When we were at the swamp, you just kind of disapeared. If it wasn't for Devimon I'd already be dead." "Oh that..." Patamon answered sadly. "It was Angewomon. She'd been one of my good commanders from the start or so I thought. When I left you I saw her and thought that maybe she had a message for me. She cheated and caught me when I wasn't looking. She took me to Prince Vamdemon. He was going to kill you when he heard that you and Devimon were with VenomWereGarurumon. He sent me to VenomWereGarurumon when he heard how strong your partner was because he thought that he could use me to kill Vamdemon. He used those black rocks to control me, that's why I tried to hurt you guys." Tears formed in his eyes. "I didn't want to hurt you. I tried to fight it but he just had so many of those black rocks!" "Don't worry about that Patamon," Angel told him. "And besides, I can't talk, I shot you in the head! And I'm sorry about that by the way." "It's ok, I'd rather get hurt then hurt someone else!" Patamon told her cheerily. "And I never got to thank you for freeing me. I saw what you did Angel, it was really brave." Angel laughed. "Well if it had to have been up to Vamdemon, I don't know what would have happened!" "Your partner is a Vamdemon?" Piddomon interjected. "That's... interesting." "You mean my partner WAS Vamdemon," Angel replied angrily. "That fucking arrogant asshole left us to rot on the streets after MagnaAngemon turned into Patamon." "Angel you shouldn't say bad words in a church infront of God!" Patamon exclaimed. "Whatever..." She muttered. "I know he was being mean but you shouldn't call him bad names. He's still your partner." Patamon told her. "No he's not, you heard him." She crossed her arms over her chest and imitated Vamdemon's voice mockingly. "I'm finished with you! I'm just going to save your life and then for some dumb ass reason I'm going to leave you standing in the street." "Yah, that was a little strange Angel." Patamon agreed. "But why?" Angel said more to herself than Patamon. "It dosn't make any sense. He seemed fine and then he saw me with you and he just sort of... snapped or something. I think you still may have been right about him being jealous. But it was just weird. Well Prince Vamdemon did say something about a LadyDevimon. Maybe that was his girlfriend." "You talked to Prince Vamdemon? How?" Patamon asked. "When Vamdemon teleported with me back to the strip club. He caught us in between and started up some psycho babble crap. He started bugging Vamdemon about being lonely and stuff and he tried to turn it on me but I shot it right back in his face! Prince Vamdemon got all pissed and hit us but then we just rematerialized at the strip club." Angel laughed. "I don't think he liked it when I pushed all his psychology shit back in his face. That's probably why he sent you to kill us." "Maybe." Patamon replied. "But don't worry, you still have me and when I can digivolve again we can get back home real fast!" Angel smiled. "You both look pretty tired." Piddomon told them. "Why don't we search for your friend tomorrow?" "Yeah that would probably be a good idea. Thank you Father" Angel agreed. She did feel quite tired and she was sure that Patamon was probably exhausted. Piddomon led them to a room and Angel settled into the bed with Patamon snuggled beside her and both fell asleep with in minutes. Patamon awoke first in the morning "Wake up! It's a new day! Get up! Get up!" Patamom jumped on her and Angel opened her eyes slowly. "Oh come on don't be boring, you have to get up!" "Alright Patamon. I'm getting up!" Angel laughed. "Good because Piddomon made us something to eat and I'm really hungry!" Patamon said happily as Angel laced up her steel toed boots. Angel followed Patamon to the kitchen where Piddomon sat smiling. Sunlight filtered in through the small window and angel figured that they must have slept a long into the morning. Piddomon presented them with breakfast and they dug in. Patamon looked up with a mouth full of food and swallowed. "You know Angel, I had a dream about you last night. You were standing with a DemiDevimon and there was a big wave coming. You both looked sad." Angel put down her fork in surprize. "Patamon, I had that dream the day you brought me to the Digital World. Infact I've had that dream many times when I was much younger. I wonder what it means." "I think it has something to do with Atlantis." Patamon replied. "Well you did tell me that there were digimon in Atlantis times but what would it have to do with me?" Angel asked. "Maybe you lived during Atlantis time Angel." Patamon reasoned. Angel picked up her fork and took a bite. "Perhaps but what's a DemiDevimon?" "A DemiDevimon digivolves into a Devimon and then to a Vamdemon." Piddomon interjected. "That's just too weird." Angel muttered. "Do you think that maybe the digimon in my dream is Vamdemon?" "I'll bet he is!" Patamon exclaimed. "Angel, we should try and find him and tell him. Who knows, maybe he had the same dream too. I think God is trying to tell us that you two belong together." "Patamon, even if this is true you know he won't beleive us. He's a vampire, so I have a feeling he doesn't beleive in God." Angel sighed angrily. "And besides, what makes you think I want to talk to him anyway?" "Oh Angel, you can't think like that. My world and your world need you." Patamon told her. "You're right Patamon," Angel admitted feeling a little embaressed. "But I just think that this won't convince him to join us. Even if he had the dream he'll probably think that you read his mind or something. I don't know. The longer we roam the streets the more likely it is that something bad is going to happen. I think that we should still head to your base and figure things out from there. What do you think?" Patamon sighed. "Yah, if I can't digivolve yet then I can't protect you. And who knows how far away Vamdemon is anyway. When we get home then Angemon can help us, he's really smart." "Ok, we'll still keep looking for Wizardmon then." Angel agreed. After they had finished breakfast Piddomon led them to a small room with a computer. He brought up a digimon medical search engine on the internet and typed in 'Wizardmon and Socerymon'. Angel groaned when about 100 hits showed up on the screen. "Well you did say that they were hispanic, that should help narrow the search." Piddomon said in response to her groan. He typed some more and 12 hits came up on the screen. "That's better." Angel said. "Well take a look at these pictures and see if you recognize your friend." Piddomon told Angel and she leaned forward. Angel looked past a few photos and leaned closer when she saw a small picture of an older digimon and a young one that looked like he could be his son. "That's them Father." She said pointing to the picture. "Well it looks like they practice medicine out of 1852 Antonio Street on the east side of town. It's quite a ways away so you'll want to take the bus. Unfortunately it has no phone number so you will have to go there yourselves. I wish I could take you there myself but the risk is too great. God's calling for me is here in this church." "Don't worry about it Father." Angel told him. "I know this may sound strange but do you have some old clothing? I think that it would help if I had some sort of disguise." "That's wise," Piddomon replied. "Yes, I have the costumes for the christmas pagents and halloween. Perhaps we can find something in there. Follow me." He got up from the computer and they followed him into the basement of the church. He opened an old wooden chest and sorted through the clothing. He pulled out a red dress of some sort and a red witches hat. "This is a Witchmon costume that the children wear on halloween. It's old but it should do." Angel put the dress on over her own clothing and donned the hat but the dress was a few sizes too big for her small frame. She turned laughing to Patamon and posed. "What do you think? Am I hot or what?" He giggled and flew to land on her shoulder. "It's not your colour maybe." "Oh Father Piddomon, what kind of currency does the Digital World have?" Angel asked as they headed up to the main floor. "We use dollars here in the New United States." He answered. "New United States? I'm from Canada." Patamon laughed. "Is it as cold as everyone says?" Angel chuckled. "No Patamon, not the part where I'm from." Piddomon gave them directions for the bus and some money for bus fare and blessed them. "I will pray for your safety and success, farewell." "Bye Father and thank you." Angel waved as she and Patamon left the church. "Ok Patamon, you ready for this?" Angel asked with a smile. "Yah of course!" Patamon replied cheerily. The streets were filled with traffic and many colourful digimon. Most gave the two no more than a passing interest to Angels complete relief. The daylight gave the city a completely different look. Many digimon sat on the sidewalks selling their wares and Angel was amazed by the the number of different digimon. Some resembled animals, some looked like robots and even some like plants. However, facinating though the city was, Angel wished that she was inside somewhere away from the desert sun. Normally she didn't mind the heat but she was wearing two layers of clothing. Sweat ran down her forehead and she wiped it with her sleeve. Angel finally saw a group of digimon at the corner of the streets that Piddomon had mentioned. The sign read "Bus Stop" and Angel turned to Patamon. "You should ask the bus driver when we should get off. If I ask then everyone's going to be looking at me. I can't believe our luck, what are the odds that we only need to take one bus?" "It's a good sign Angel." Patamon replied. Angel gave him a look. "I'm Witchmon, remember?" "Oh yah, sorry." Patamon smiled. A black cat that walked on two legs and a short shifty looking troll with an overly large nose stood beside the two and eyed them warily. Angel managed a weak smile and tried to ignore the two digimon. "You look like you've lost some weight or something." The troll said to Angel with a smirk. Angel smiled. "Yah, I tried the bacon diet. Really worked for me." "Bacon?" The cat chuckled. "Sounds like a load of crap to me. You know, you don't look like any Witchmon I've ever seen." "Why?" Angel asked carefully. "Well why are you carrying around that flying pig for one thing?" The troll asked mockingly and the two digimon cracked up. "It must be her pet!" The cat laughed. Patamon groaned and Angel turned away. The Digital World didn't seem to be an openly hostile place but the creatures certainly did seem suspicious. Probably because of the war Angel thought to herself. She remembered the Gulf War but that had been so long ago and the war in Iraq, it just seemed so far away. Here she could see the effects the war had on the general population's attitude although she was sure that the war hadn't reached this city too directly yet otherwise there would be military presence all over the street. But she figured that Prince Vamdemon didn't need it here since he had the Bloods doing his dirty work. They watched five buses go by before Angel spied bus number 62. She pushed down her fear and handed Patamon the money. The boarded the bus behind the black cat and the troll. Patamon deposited the money in the change slot asked the android bus driver where they needed to get off and the bus driver agreed to let them know. They spent the trip in silence and Angel thought about Vamdemon and her strange dream. Could he really be the creature she had seen in her dream? Part of her didn't really want to see him again, but there was another part of her that wondered about him and his strange behaviour. She really had no experience with men since she hadn't even had a boyfriend yet. She'd had a male friend in high school but after while he had stopped hanging around with her in favour of the more popular crowd. She remembered how hurt she had felt the day that she had asked him to the school dance. He had told her that he wasn't going but Angel had decided that she would go by herself anyway. She'd felt intensely betrayed when she had seen him standing with a group of people. The others had laughed at her when she tried to talk to him and worst of all he had joined in the laughter. The only other time she had felt such betrayal was when Vamdemon had left her and Patamon to fend for themselves. She sighed sadly and Patamon nuzzled her. "I know who you're thinking about. Don't worry, he's probably sorry he said those mean things to you." Angel smiled at Patamon and scratched him behind his wing ears. A couple of minutes later the bus driver called to them. They thanked him and left the bus. Angel looked around and was surprized by the seemingly empty sidewalks. She looked up the steet and saw the shop with the numbers 1852 on it. Angel looked at Patamon. "Something's wrong." "I can sense it too Angel." Patamon replied nervously. "I think somehow Prince Vamdemon knew that I was here last night. Patamon we can't run from him. He's going to find us sooner or later. He might not know that you're MagnaAngemon so don't volunteer any information. What do you say?" "You're right Angel. We can't run away, we're not cowards like him! Besides he might end up hurting your friends if we don't show up. Oh when I digivolve he'll be sorry for being so mean!" Angel smiled and gathered her courage. She stripped the Witchmon costume off of her and strode boldly towards the shop with Patamon on her shoulder. She opened the door and wasn't surprized to see the shop empty. She walked to the middle of the room and looked up the stairs. "Cone on out you stupid fucks and show yourselves!" Angel yelled up the stairs. She wasn't surprized when a tall figure appeared but she still took an instinctive step backwards when it descended down the stairs. It's identity remained hidden until it emerged into the light. Angel gasped as she looked into the piercing dark glare of her co worker Mike.