Oh yes, in this fanfiction, the tamers DO NOT! I repeat DO NOT know that Beelzebumon is Impmon. As far as they know, Beelzebumon is a mystery. I created this fanfic before I knew that, and I don't want to change the plot entirely. Sorry for not following the story!

Now...onto the story! (Character death in this chapter)

Pyle

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"Lee, something is here" Susie whined, tugging on his orange vest and trying to get him to turn around and look. Susie had said it at least twenty times. After the first five times of looking backwards and seeing that nothing was there, he simply ignored her.

"She's right Lee, I looked back there and something is following us" said Lopmon fearfully. "It had red eyes. We have to get out of here!"

Lee, exasperated at looking back, finally did it just to satisfy their needs for him to look at the illusion. He turned around and looked back.

In the next instant, Lee had grabbed Lopmon and Susie and was rushing down the tunnel as fast as he could go. He had seen those eyes before.

Red crescent eyes.

Beelzebumon's eyes.

Eyes filled with fear, death and destruction. Eyes red with the blood of Takato and Leomon. Crescent crimson eyes that glowed through darkness and brought hate through it.

Lee ran blindly through the tunnels, ignoring the complaints from Lopmon and Susie. He had to get them away from there before Beelzebumon turned them all into bits of red on the ground with his triumphant form above them laughing.

He looked back behind his shoulder and saw those red crescent eyes, following him again. He must have been following them for the past couple of miles while they had been arguing when walking through the tunnels.

Always after the deceleration of his running he would look back, and those red crescent eyes would be staring at him again, piercing through him and drilling holes through the darkness, leaving only a slight red mark where they had been before. They vanished once Lee started running again.

But they soon appeared again. Lee was so tired now that he could not even stand up, and collapsed on the ground. The red eyes surrounded them. Flashing past them, whirling around them, zipping through the darkness. Always, they would remain focused on the group. It got to the point where Lee couldn't stand it anymore, and his intolerance won out of over his exhaustion. He picked up Lopmon and Susie again, then carried them down the tunnel at incredible speed.

For another five minutes he ran, stumbling blindly through the darkness and taking random passageways in and out of the tunnels. At last, he turned around and the red crescent eyes were no longer there, no longer following them.

Lee dropped to his knees, then began panting heavily. It was amazing, the speeds and distances people could run when desperation took over. He dropped to his stomach, then was out like a light, the world turning to nothing around him.

When he woke up, Lopmon and Susie were sitting a large distance away, staring at him fearfully. What Lopmon told him he found even harder to believe then Susie and Lopmon themselves.

Lopmon explained that Beelzebumon had come that night, his magnums out and demanding that they all surrender and then he would make their death quick and painless. Lee must have been white hot with anger because he took out his digivice and held it in front of him, and a strange glow surrounded him, and he began moving with incredible speed and strength.

She said that he had picked Beelzebumon up and slammed him into the wall and whenever Beelzebumon had shot at you, you would dodge the bullet like it was going less than one mile an hour.

The digivice must have increased his abilities a hundred times because he punched and slammed Beelzebumon around like Styrofoam, then chased him back down the tunnels. The glow around him disappeared and he just simply lay down and didn't make another move or sound for another four hours.

Apparently, everybody had decided that they had dreamed the whole incident. It was strange though, everyone having the same dream. But Lee himself decided that there was no way that he could have slammed Beelzebumon around like that, and they resumed walking down the tunnels.

"Susie, I want you and Lopmon to stay here" he said, putting his hands on her shoulders and gently pushing her down next to the wall in a sitting position. She immediately got back up.

"Why?!"

"Because it's too dangerous to be running around the tunnels! Beelzebumon is running around in here and if he catches you he will kill you in an instant!" he shouted, then cursed himself for the tone and for raising his voice as Susie burst into tears.

"Stop it!" he shouted. Then he lowered his voice and said quietly in a reassuring tone "Lopmon will be here with you, so you'll be safe. Don't worry Susie, it won't be like last time"

Susie his her face in her hands, her tears disappearing. "It's because I'm too small to help, isn't it?" she said.

Lee put a hand on her shoulder. "Susie, look at me"

Her head came up and she looked at Lee, a few tears still on her face. "I'm doing this so that you won't get hurt. Your getting the best part out of this deal Susie!"

"I don't care! It's not fair. I want to go with you!" she murmured.

"Please Susie, stay here" he said, his tone rising.

"No!" she said, standing up, bursting into tears again for being left behind. She grabbed onto his leg, trying to convince him that she wouldn't let go until he let her come with him.

"QUIET!" he roared, sending Susie tumbling to the floor and bringing up his hand in sort of a karate chop stance, then he closed his eyes tight and raised a fist.

"Your going to have Lopmon here, don't worry. Just stay right here and you won't get hurt. I'm going to go look for the others" said Lee, then he began to walk off.

Lopmon, who had been quiet the hole conversation, asked "How will you find your way back?"

Lee turned around, a half smile on his face. "I'll always know where you are. Trust me"

Right after he had finished his sentence, a maniacal laughter racked through the caverns. Beelzebumon's laugh. The evilness in it struck through the darkness, and gave a warning to Lee as to what was coming next.

Lee came running back, reaching Susie and covering her protectively with him arms, pressing her against his side and trying to make himself as a shield.

A hail of bullets came ringing through the cavern. The words "Double Impact!" rippled through the cavern, and he could dimly see smoke in the air, and red eyes. Glowing red eyes. Bullets ripped through the darkness and slammed into the area around them, chipping rock and debris and sending parts of the cavern wall tumbling down on top of them.

Dust filled the air, Beelzebumon laughed evilly again, then he disappeared down the tunnel, firing a few shots over his shoulder.

Small white traces of light slipped through the air, floating around for a moment, then disappearing in different directions down the cavern tunnels.

Lopmon's data.

Lee felt tears come into his eyes, and a lump in his throat. He bit his tongue to keep from crying. He had completely forgotten about her. All he had though about was Susie. Come to think of it, why was she being so quiet even though her partner had been killed?

Lee, afraid of what he would see, slowly looked down at Susie.

Near the top of her chest, a small red dot rested, in the area of her heart.

Susie's eyes were in a glazed expression, and she only looked straight forward at nothing. Her body seemed to have gone pale and cold in his arms.

Lee, trying to pretend it didn't happen, simply pressed Susie close to his side. He hugged her head to his chest. Tears began to run down his cheeks, finally realizing what had just happened.

"It's okay Susie..."he said, tears running down his cheeks as he at last began to grasp the situation. But he was trying to pretend it didn't happen. "Don't worry...we'll just wait for someone to come"

Another tear dripped off of his cheek and landed on Susie face, dribbling down off her chin and dropping to the ground, being absorbed by the strange, sticky liquid.

"Susie...I'm sorry! Please...come back" he began chanting. "Please Susie.....I'm sorry!!...Come back! Please...."

Come back...

Please...

But she would never reply to him again.

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I am sorry to have Susie killed off. I decided that it would probably help with the development of the story. Sad at the end, ya know? This is a drama fic, and I was planning to have some romance in here, but I won't have much if everyone is dead at the end!

I am sorry everybody. I just like to show how it might be in real life. Happy endings only happen in movies. This may or may not have a happy ending.

Skies of ice...

Pyle