"NO! SORA!" yelled Christo.

"This is all my fault!" exclaimed Labramon.

Fiona watched Sora dissolve and gobbled up by Devi-Chris. She thought of more insults, but, on second thought, maybe it wasn't the best time for insults. She sat stupidly on the ground and slid over behind Penguinmon. "Eep..."

DarkSaibdramon snickered. "Do you sell cellphones or what?" He inhaled, preparatory to launching an attack.

Sayu growled a little, glaring up at the swiffer-sweeper (though she didn't know it was called that). But, glancing down at the device in her hand, there were other dots in there. And she figured she might as well find out what was going on.

"Who'd wanna go inta that bloody-ugly fortress-thing, anyway?!" The girl growled, more to herself then to her partner. Gizamon smirked up at her.

"You, apparently." He replied, snickering, and this merited a glare from Sayu.

"Shut. The. Hell. Up. Jus' 'cause I put up wit' yas doesn' mean I wanna hear yer snide remarks." Sayu grumbled. She'd been in this weird world (Digital World, Gizamon called it) for about two or three days, and she was still getting used to it. She'd met Gizamon a little while after she'd gotten here, and he just wouldn't leave her alone. The two of them were always bickering, and he didn't seem to care.

"Excuse me, Miss 'I'll-insult-you-every-chance-I-get!'" Gizamon snapped back. And that was how they entered the swiffer-sweeper: in another argument.

"Huh? Sell phones? What's that?"

Thi chuckled at DarkSaibdramon's quip, although lightly so it would hurt his bruised shoulder less. "Now that would be exactly the kind of comeback I was looking for. Gotta hand it to ya, you aren't all bad." Thian didn't pick up, from his position on the floor, the fact that the dark Digimon wasn't just inhaling.

Unfortunately, neither did Sprintmon. Startled by his opponent's odd, seemingly senseless humor, the tell-tale signs were lost upon him.

It was just about that time that Sayu entered the room. Her quick glance around the room showed her this: Digimon thing about to attack another Digimon thing, some kids, and a hurt kid. All kids - except for the hurt kid, and the evil-looking kid - looked upset. Ah, what the hell? Gizamon was already joining the fight, running to attack the Digimon thing that was about to attack. Shrugging, she ran into battle.

"SPIRAL EDGE!" Gizamon growled, attacking DarkSaibdramon. And Sayu ran at the evil kid (Devi-Chris) and tackled him.

"Ra, what the bloody hell is going on, eh?!" Sayu growled, attempting to pin evil kid beneath her.

DarkSaibdramon growled, his attack interrupted. He lashed out with his claws and grabbed the spikes on Gizamon's back. He then proceeded to fling it across the room, where it got its spikes stuck in a wall. He then turned back to Thian and Sprintmon and roared, gathering energy for his final attack...

Devi-Chris roared at this new unexpected attack. With no effort at all, he stood back up, with Sayu still hanging off his back. He reached for one of her wrists with his hand, and pulled it off. He then dragged her around to the front of him. His eyes flashed redly for a second again, and then he spoke. "Who in the hell are YOU? How dare you interrupt my fun! I was just about to finish this one off!" He pointed to Kamika. "You will pay dearly for this..."

Isthian sat up taller as a strange girl burst into the room. His first thought wasn't delight at having another girl around -- it was shock at her filthy appearance. She looked almost as dirty as he did after a soccer match, and that's saying a lot! His next thought was one of admiration for her spunk -- there was nothing he loved more than seeing girls beat Chris up, after all.

Deciding that the floor wasn't the safest place in the world, he reached up and grabbed a hold of one of the Gizamon's legs. Okay, so using a poor, hurt Digimon to help yourself stand up isn't exactly the most noble thing in the world, but hey, this is Isthian, after all.

Once up, of course, Isthian had absolutely no idea what to do. He leaned against the wall for support and gave the Gizamon a tentative poke on the brighter streak along its back. "Need some help, there?"

Sprintmon's problems were a bit more immediate. Gizamon's attack had provided him with exactly the kind of refocusing he needed. He bounced forward into position, his front legs spread wide, and attacked. "Sprint Bomb!!" His shell-shaped headcrest glowed brightly, and thin darts shot upward out of each of the creases, aimed toward DarkSaibdramon.

Gizamon growled as the hurt kid used HIS leg to stand up. And grew even more frustrated when he asked that STUPID question.

"Of COURSE I do!!!" He hissed. "Help me down! IWANNAFIGHTIWANNAFIGHTIWANNAFIGHT!!!!!"

Taira blinked and looked at the new girl. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, THE BUTTERMOTHS ARE MULTIPLYING!" She jumped onto the new girl, who was on the back of Chris, who was trying to attack Kamika. In an odd way Taira was saving this strange buttermoth from some serious pain. Taira was able to pull her off and unfortunately Sayu landed on her causing Taira to give a grunt. "You're heavy! You should go on a diet!" Sayu was probably unaware that Taira was half crazy at the time. "You should know not to attack crazy-alien- buttermoth-chris!" The way Taira was speaking seemed to have been in an annoyed tone, but it wasn't on purpose. "ALIEN-CHRIS-DUDE! You need a hug from your mother!" She said muffled under Sayu.

Sayu grunted, then stood, growling ferociously. Sending a dark glare to Taira, she then jumped back into her fight with Devi-Chris. By sinking her teeth into his arm while clawing at him.

She personally did not want to know what the crazy girl was talking about, but she used her frustration to sink her teeth in harder. And she kicked him again, just for the fun of it.

Isthian gave a startled jump as the Gizamon hissed at him. That, however, caused him to put more weight onto his wounded leg than was exactly comfortable, so he hastily leaned against the wall again for support. "Easy there," he said, almost managing to be soothing. "I'll see what I can do." He crouched down slightly and set his shoulder against the Gizamon, hoping to be able to push its spikes upward and out of the wall.

Gizamon came out alright. In fact, he went flying. And landed face-down on the floor. Growling a little at Isthian, he decided that he would help his partner. Hey, a fight is a fight. So, he jumped onto Devi-Chris's head, and hung tight, sinking his claws into the not-quite-a-boy's head.

Taira shook her head at the girl attacking Devi-Chris. In fact if it wasn't for Thian being hurt, I bet to Taira it would be so damn entertaining to watch. Unfortunately, that fun had to be detained for her prince was in need of help. Rushing directly to help him she told him to sit down in a very demanding tone. "I need to help you before the New Rabid Chipmunk woman and her Rabid rabbit smell the blood and attack you." She looked at him with true sincere worry. "Let me help you." Then she raised an eyebrow. "Of course you will have to strip so we can see what the damage is and use your pants as a clever bandage that will be way to big for it." She gave an apologetic grin.

"No! No! No need for that! I'll just heal it... If that's OK with you, Isthian?" said Labramon, hurrying over.

"Oh, no..." she said meekly. "We really don't need another insane being in our midst..."

"Think of it this way. At least she's on our side," said Penguinmon. "I hope," he added as an afterthought.

Kamika gasped slightly as she saw the female come in and jump on Chris. She couldn't even muster up to say, "Who are you?"

Puttimon blinked and shook her head. "First one person DIES then another comes. . . The irony in it all."

Isthian was rather shocked when Taira "asked" him to strip. Before he could respond, or even formulate a semi-intelligent response (relative, of course, to his intelligence standard), Labramon rushed over with her offer of help. However, Thi-boy knew just what to do with THAT offer.

"Eee! No! Please, no! A Digimon? Attack?! That's just too freaky! No, no, NO WAY!" Isthian scunched back along the wall, away from the seemingly terrifying Labramon.

"GRRRRR!" DarkSaibdramon had been interrupted AGAIN. "Dark Pendulum!" A large pendulum appeared in the air in front of him, and began ticking back and forth slowly. Baaack....and forth..... baacck and forth....baaack and forth......... slower....slower.....slower..... As the pendulum ticked slower, the darts that had been fired slowed in their flight. Finally, the pendulum stopped, and so did the darts, hanging in midair. Finally, the pendulum started ticking again, only backwards. It gained speed, and the darts turned around and sped towards Sprintmon, Thian, and Taira. DarkSaibdramon grinned toothily. "Let's see how you do with that, Cellphone-mon...."

With Devi-Chris, things were not going quite as well. He now had a berserk girl on his back with her teeth dug into his arm, and a Gizamon's claws also dug into him. Of course, he had to do the sensible thing. "DAMMIT, GET OFF!" He attempted to smash behind him with his arms, and dislodge Manda, but failed. His eyes began to glow an eerie red once again, and he roared. "DARK STORM!" He stopped in place, his arms stretched out away from him. His clothes began to whip around as if being blown by a heavy wind, and he began to spin. Faster and faster he spun around, radiating dark power and black lightning.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" cried Christo as she saw Devi-Chris start using Dark Storm. She ran and hid behind Isthian, followed by Labramon. She then saw the darts heading back towards Isthian, Sprintmon and Taira.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

They ran away from the darts, and stopped when they were out of dart-range, panting... only to find that they were now only a few feet away from the Uber-freaky Devi-Chris.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sprintmon was startled by DarkSaibdramon's counterattack, but he had more than enough time to prepare. He sprang to the front of the foray, his headcrest once again glowing. When the darts were but a split-second away, the crest seemed to burst into light and extend upward, the shell-pattern continuing, but arching backward slightly so that the darts were deflected harmlessly towards the wall. Well, harmlessly for the humans, at any rate -- the wall, if it had sentience, would probably be less than happy about it.

"Guess we'll have to do this the old-fashioned way, then, won't we?" hissed Sprintmon at his adversary. He leapt towards DarkSaibdramon's throat, his multitude of sharp, needle-like teeth at the ready.

Kamika cowered in fear. "No. . Hurt. . Please. . " She whimpered.

Puttimon stared at Kamika. "You COULD do at least an ounce of help!"

Kamika shook her head furiously. "NO help. Too. . . Scary!!!" She closed her eyes tightly and started to rock back and forth.

Puttimon groaned in exasperation. "GREAT! I get the sucky trainer!! At least everyone ELSE has a better partner that actually DOES something!" She grumbled as she looked around for someone to help Kamika get out of her funk.

Kyrainia just looked at the scene in front of her in a mix of shock and confusion. She was still a bit incomprehensive because of the whole previous ordeal so she wasn't sure what to do. First Chris turned into a psychotic possessed bastard and goes and attacks everyone, then some mystery girl dies, and then some new girl comes and starts attacking Chris...not that that's a bad thing.

Kyrainia shook her head, there would be hell to pay if they all survived this.

Feeling a tug on her pant leg, Kyrainia looked down to see Mushroomon there. "Kyrainia! Kyrainia!!" The over-hyper and long forgotten digimon cried. "We need to help them!!!"

Kyrainia sighed. This was all too confusing.

DarkSaibdramon growled happily. "Now it gets interesting." He flapped his wings to rise a few feet in the air, and dropped down towards Sprintmon, his claws extended.

Devi-Chris ended his attack. "Now you know better than to oppose me, fool!" He pointed at Sayu. "I will make you scream for that. All of you will be destroyed before this day is done!" He saw something move out of the corner of his eye, and registered what it was in an instant. He grinned evilly, showing his teeth. "Perhaps this will be an object lesson to you...." He suddenly flashed to his left and snatched up Tamagomon, who had been fluttering around brokenly, and Sora's dropped digivice. He held one in each hand, and laughed cruelly. Then he squeezed his right hand gently, and Tamagomon squealed in pain. His eyes glowed red again, and he squeezed still harder. "Pain... such wondrous pain... it is an awakening. I shall consume.... everything.... pain as you have never seen before...." He brought Tamagomon up to his mouth, and opened his mouth impossibly wide. He stuffed the small digimon into his mouth and bit down, eliciting one final shriek and dissolving Tamagomon into little bits of data that he then sucked up. "Ahh.... just like chicken... now to dispose of this foolish toy." He squeezed the digivice tightly, attempting to crush it. However, he could do nothing against it. The thing did not even show a mark on its plastic frame. He growled, and brought it up to his mouth, planning to simply destroy and absorb it. However, the screen began blinking and glared brightly in one final flash of light that covered Devi-Chris. "AAAARRRGHHHHH! WRETCHED TOY!" He flung it away, and it hit the wall near Kamika, its screen rapidly dimming and flickering lightly now. Devi-Chris seethed. "Fools.... you must see now that nothing can stand against me. There is no way out for you. I will destroy everything!"

Sayu hissed a little, and was about to launch herself at Devi-Chris again, when her Partner finally got some sense and held her back.

"DON' TRY TA STOP ME, Y'BLOODY CREATURE!" Sayu shrieked at Gizamon. The Digimon growled a little, but did not get off of her back (he had tackled her, and forced her onto the floor. How he keeps her there is a mystery).

"No! Whether you want to listen or not, I don't want you hurt!" Gizamon hissed. "Humans... why are they so intent on getting themselves injured?" He muttered to himself, rolling his eyes. Sayu paused a moment, then continued to struggle. Her Partner, however, remained unmovable.

Christo just continued screaming when she saw Tamagomon get eaten. Labramon slapped her across the face.

Sprintmon growled. "It wasn't interesting before? Huh!" He dropped to his stomach and rolled away from DarkSaibdramon's attack, looking disturbingly long, thin, and round. He rolled back onto his feet in a smooth motion. "Let's see how 'interesting' you think it is when it's your own partner being attacked!" Sprintmon darted forward and leapt at Devi-Chris, his sharp claws at the ready.

If Isthian were a better Digidestined, he would probably feel compelled to stop his Digimon's assault on another human being. That is, however, a very big "if." Instead, he decided to reduce the noise level a little and dragged himself over to the panicking Christo. He leaned over to kiss her (it works in theory!), but as that involved shifting his weight onto his injured leg, he promptly fell over and collapsed on top of her. Whoops.

"ACK!" yelled Christo as Isthian fell on top of her. She fell over. "Now, the way I see it, you have two options," she told Isthian, "You can either let Labramon heal your leg, or sit there letting your leg hurt. Which one?" She sat down next to him, and grinned at him.

DarkSaibdramon shrugged and turned toward Isthian, Christo, and Labramon. "Devi can take care of himself, fool." He roared, and swiped at Christo with his razor-sharp claws.

Devi-Chris whirled to meet the attack, and grabbed Sprintmon's front legs in midair. Both came to a complete stop, pushing hard against the other in a battle of strength. Devi-Chris growled. "You will not defeat me, you filth... I will consume your data and then move on to the humans. Nothing will stand in my way!"

Sprintmon groaned as DarkSaibdramon ignored his threat. 'I should've known!' He had no time to say anything about that, however, as Devi-Chris started grappling with him. "You might destroy me, but you could never defeat us all! One person standing alone will never be able to fight the combined power of many, all working for good!" The Digimon lowered his head and snapped at Devi-Chris, hoping to at least be able to distract him.

"Sitting here letting my leg hurt sounds good to m-aaahh!" Isthian had been sitting facing Christo, and so had seen what she had not -- the flash of DarkSaibdramon's claws. Thian flung himself on the younger girl, knocking her backward and shielding her with his body, mere split-seconds before DarkSaibdramon dashed in.

"What the-- ACK!" Christo yelled as Isthian jumped on top of her. She hit her head on the floor.

"Hey, you OK?" she asked Isthian, sitting up and rubbing the back of her head.

Puttimon sighed as she looked around. "What is the world coming to??" she mumbled as she tried to find a sane enough person. She hobbled over to Kyrainia and tapped her on the shoulder. "Hi person! Can you kinda help my partner over there??" She said with a huge smile on her face. Without waiting for her response, she tugged her on the arm and started to pull her towards Kamika.

Kyrainia looked at the little digimon tugging at her arm. Following she walked up to Kamika and grabbed her arm.

"We've been standing here long enough. Come on. Mushroomon! Let's go! Attack or something..."

Mushroomon jumped up and down excitedly. "Yay!!!"

Penguinmon slapped Fiona with one of his flipper...thingies. "Come on, Fiona!" he said. "We have to help some how!"

"That's okay!" said Fiona quickly (and rather nervously). "I'm happy right here, thanks!" She gave her Digimon a weak smile and went back to rocking back and forth, muttering things. Penguinmon sighed and began trying to get her up.

Isthian looked at Christo with a frown. "Of course I'm fine! What about you?" He brushed at a red streak on her shirt, and then collapsed in a dead faint on top of her.

DarkSaibdramon's claws opened up large furrows on Thian's back, tearing his shirt still more. Seeing that Thian was apparently out of commission now, DarkSaibdramon decided to go after the little irritating mushroom. He clanked his way over to the little bugger, and stopped in front of him. DarkSaibdramon literally towered over the little thing. He looked down. "So do I just step on you now or something?"

Devi-Chris grunted, and continued to push Sprintmon backwards, bit by bit, attempting to flip him over onto his back so he would be vulnerable to an attack. "Oh, please! Don't make me puke.... mouthing foolish platitudes. What an idiot." He looked around briefly. "Anyway, I'd say you're pretty well divided, eh? A couple over there, some over there... my job is going well." He grinned and suddenly gave Sprintmon a gigantic heave.

Sayu was completely and total pissed off. Not only was her Digimon on TOP of her, and therefore keeping her from killing ugly-fighter-dude, but said ugly-fighter-dude was winning what was barely a battle. PERFECT. Gizamon, deciding that his life was at risk if he remained on his Partner any longer, moved aside. Sayu, instead of going after ugly-fighter-dude, kicked Gizamon in DarkSaibdramon's direction.

"If'n y'ever d'somethin' like dat again, y'betteh PRAY T'RA DAT Y'CAN RUN FAS' ENUFF!!!" Then she realized that she'd kicked him towards the thing that had embedded him in a wall earlier. Shrugging, she turned, and sat herself down, watching Devi-Chris winning against Sprintmon, a sneer planted on her face. She would be smiling to herself at such interesting entertainment, but Sayu doesn't smile. Ah well.

Mushroomon looked up at the giant digimon. "Actually you'd have to catch me before you could step on me!" Mushroomon yelled before starting to run around the room, stopping occasionally to send a 'Poison Smash' over to the evil digimon.

"CURE LIQUOR!" Labramon used her healing attack on Isthian, as Christo wriggled out from under him. "I hope he'll be alright." Labramon said.

"Of course he will." replied Christo, fingering the smear on her t-shirt and praying she wouldn't turn out wrong.

Kamika continued to rock back and forth, not noticing her digimon had gone. Suddenly she felt herself being pulled. Looking up with wide eyes, she saw Kyrainia. "I. .. I. . ." She stuttered.

Puttimon, on the other hand, was just tired of sitting around and doing nothing. "Let's help them!!!!" She exclaimed angrily at her partner. Kamika stared at Puttimon, looking at her almost like examining her. Puttimon sweatdropped. "Ka. . .mi-ka?"

Kamika nodded. "Let's go. .." She said softly, standing up. She turned to Kyrainia. "Let's go help them!"

"Aaaah!" Sprintmon went tumbling backwards at Devi-Chris's shove. He curled into a ball and rolled a couple yards before finally skidding to a stop on his side.

Thi's reaction was a little more subdued. He groaned and slowly blinked open his eyes. Looked around. Groaned again. "Oh, hell. Don't tell me I'm still here!"

Penguinmon continued to pull at Fiona, but she stayed put. "Oh, forget it!" he said, and let go of her hand. "See you, soon, Fiona!" with that, he rushed toward Devi-Chris.

"Hey! WAIT!" yelled Fiona. "You can't go into a battle alone! That's just... stupid!" She stood up and ran after him.

"You were so brave, 'Thian." said Christo, grinning at him. She then noticed Labramon sneaking off. "Just where are you going?"

"I'm going to help them fight."

"Oh. Ok!" said Christo, "Be careful tho. I'll stay here with Isthian."

"I'm... b-brave?" Isthian sat up, rubbing the back of his head embarrassedly and blushing. "Wow." He blinked a few times before regaining his composure. "So, does this mean you'll kiss me?"

Sayu decided, as she had kicked Gizamon as close to danger as she could, that she had to do something else. Possessed-by-Set-boy (as she had figured he was) would just irritate her further, so she settled for the next best thing. Walking over to Christo and Isthian, just in time to catch Thian's last comment/question. A flirt. Sayu came to the conclusion, right then and there, that she didn't like flirts. So, she gave Isthian a good, hard, bop on the head.

"Y're now 'fficially 'ossessed b'Set." She informed him curtly. "All f'irts ahr 'ossessed b'Set." Sayu sneered/informed Christo.

DarkSaibdramon twitched as he watched all the rookies advancing on him. "So you finally decided to come play, did you? This will be fun... and as that foolish lizard is out of this fight for now, it'll be nothing more than crushing insignificant bugs!" He stomped right through the middle of them, cutting off Puttimon and Kamika from the rest of the group. He then whirled towards the rest of them, his tail knocking Puttimon and Kamika away. He roared and shot black flames at the group of small rookies.

Devi-Chris laughed cruelly at Sprintmon, and walked past him towards the crowd of digimon ganging up on DarkSaibdramon. As he passed the fallen digimon, he turned and kicked him cruelly in his underbelly several times. He snickered and moved on. Then DarkSaibdramon suddenly knocked Kamika and Puttimon away from the rest, and he grinned. "Perfect... just who I was looking for." He moved rapidly towards her. When the two of them were face to face, he smiled, showing his teeth. "So wonderful to see you again... I told you I was saving you for last. And now it's your turn! Aren't you lucky? We get to talk about all sorts of interesting stuff... that is, as long as your little stuffed animal there doesn't interfere. Oh, and just to make sure that nobody interrupts us...." He backed away a few paces, and growled loudly. Dark energy began to course up and down his forearms. He raised his arms high in the air, and shouted "SHIELD OF DARKNESS!" A large black translucent dome about 4 yards across appeared around him, Kamika, and Puttimon. Devi-Chris turned back to Kamika and smiled. "Now it is ensured that nobody shall interfere... and there is no escape for you or your little foul toy. The only way out of this is death!"

Huh? Okay, one moment, his Partner is mad at him and kicks him. The next, he's being attacked by some Digimon he doesn't know - the one he attempted to attack earlier.

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Crap.

Gizamon, who was more comfortable in water, struggled to dodge. Then, just for the fun of it, he growled at some random person/digimon, and ran. What was he supposed to do? He'd learned his lesson the hard way earlier. As he ran, towards the door, he turned to briefly yell at them - and Sayu.

"YOU'RE ALL EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He shrieked, and then he DID run out the door. Probably to get lost in the swiffer-sweeper. Ah well. His problem, not Sayu's. Or mine, for that matter.

Kamika started to shiver. "Wh-What do you want with me??" She wanted to move but nothing seemed to register to her body. Puttimon stood in front of Kamika, keeping her ground.

"You won't touch her if I'm here!!" Puttimon said bravely, facing Chris with a determined face.

Kamika kneeled down to Puttimon, worry written across her face. "Puttimon. . . Don't. ."

Puttimon shook her head, "I was meant to protect you. . . And I will do my job!"

Kamika sighed as she lifted up Puttimon and held her in her arms in comfort, staring at Chris with hard eyes. "This is my problem. . . I would never want to see you hurt." She said with courage in her voice. "And I'll deal with it, any way I can." She looked at Chris. "I'm where you want me. Now do what you must. I will NOT let you destroy more of the group. . ." With a softer voice, she added. "Even if you are my boyfriend. . . I will stand by them. And I will not abandon them. ."

"So determined... so ready to give your life for others... Blech. Disgusting. I think I'm starting to see why the fool whose body I dwell in fell for you." He smirked. "Of course, I mean that falling part literally. After all, that's how you two met, wasn't it?" He gagged. "Never mind all this mushy junk. You're the greatest threat to me at this point, and so I aim to take care of that right now. You know, it's interesting." He shrugged. "Surprisingly enough, you seem to be the only one here that's capable of defeating me- that's what my intuition tells me. And I've never been wrong. But you look to be such a weakling with your little stuffed animal there! How could you possibly be a threat to me? I am all powerful! What powers can you possibly have that I do not? Answer me, damn you! This one thing I must know before I destroy you utterly."

Kamika stared at "Chris". Holding Puttimon carefully, she spoke softly. "You may be powerful. And you may be able to destroy me in one hit. But I will do whatever it takes to beat you." With a small sigh, she continued. "I do not know why I am your biggest threat but if that is true, then neither I nor you will be able to change that fact. It may be a difficult task for me to destroy you but I will do it. Puttimon may help me or not but I promise you that I WILL defeat you and get Chris back. And I never back out on a promise I give."

"Ow!" Isthian rubbed his head where Sayu had hit him. "What the heck was that for?! And what do you mean, 'possessed by Set?' I've never even heard of the guy!" Thian gave his head a firm pat, as if to make sure his brains were settled right, and then lowered his hand again. "Besides, I don't recall asking you anything. It's her choice what she wants to do!" He winked outrageously at Christo, and hoped that she wouldn't notice that he couldn't remember her name.

Never heard of Set? Then why was the kid talking in Egyptian? And was he actually trying her patience (of which she had none)? GASP.

"SET'S A 'GYPTIAN GOD O'CHAOS, DUMB A -- " She paused a moment. Where was Gizamon? Ah well, who cared! " -- SS!" Sayu thwapped him over the head again. "Ra, why're dese peepell so damn DUMB?!"

"OW!!" It was all Thi could do not to punch her, girl though she was. For some reason, running and shouting "daemon woman" didn't even cross his mind. "Hey! Your Egyptian gods have NOTHING on my Japanese deities. Isn't that right?" He smiled confidently at Christo, obviously expecting her to take his side.

Sayu hit him again. "I dunno wha' Ja'a'nes' is, but it can't b'anythin' 'porten', if'n it 'as t'do wit' YA." She sneered.

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