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Leo and Inc where inside the living room sitting on the couch without saying a word.

Leo was looking at the hour on his cell phone quite annoyed and tapping the ground with his foot continuously keeping always the same tempo.

"Man, come on you two!!! It's not like we're going to a wedding or something for crying out loud!!!" Leo yelled out loud so that Pikuna and Celia could hear him from upstairs.

"Stop whining, will ya? We are almost done" Pikuna yelled back at him in an annoyed tone.

"It's been more than an hour since we are waiting here for them to get ready" Leo said getting up from the couch and looking out of the window.

He was wearing a long black robe torn a little at the ends of it with its hood on his head.

He also had skull like hands with long black fingernails.

"No need to make such a great fuss about it Leo. It's not like Gardaland is going to run away from us or something" Inc said patiently to him like he usually did seeing his brother quite stressed.

Inc was wearing a red vest with attached black sleeves, matching jabot, black cape with red innerlining, with a tall collar and a pair of elegant black pants.

He also had a pair of fake vampire teeth.

"Yeah, but you know how full that place is every day... Not to mention on Halloween." Leo replied to Inc sighing a little.

"You do have a point there... But maybe it's not going to be like last year..." Inc said a bit hopefully.

"I think it's going to be worse." Leo replied lamely.

Both of them could hear footsteps coming from the stairs.

"Finally, was about time." Leo said to himself while picking up a glass of water starting to drink, while Inc got up from the sofa, waiting for the girls to come down, very curios to see they're costumes since they kept it a secret all these days.

Both of them came down smiling big at them and as soon as the boys saw them, Leo sputtered the water he was drinking while Inc seemed to have his mouth on the ground from how wide it was opened.

And how couldn't they react like this when they had such a site in front of them.

Pikuna was wearing a short black dress, white ruffled petticoat, lacy white apron, black stockings, black stilettos, a black ribbon around her neck, a maid's cap and a corset, while Celia was wearing a black witch hat, a black corset top with a red ribbon lace-up front with off-the-shoulder puff sleeves, long black fingerless gloves, a transparent black miniskirt with her black panties quite visible and her red ribbon attached to her tail like always .

"And what the hell is this?!" Leo asked shouting a bit from anger and surprise.

Pikuna and Celia looked at each other a little smiling.

"Last time I checked, these were our costumes." Pikuna answered him giggling.

"Ha ha, very funny kitty. Like I hadn't noticed. What I'm asking is why in the world have you dressed like that?" Leo answered back not in the least amused.

"Well, we thought that these costumes were actually quite cute and it still fit for Halloween." Celia answered him in her usual cheerful manner.

"Oh really? As long as I remember... Halloween costumes are made to scare people... Not seduce and attract them." Leo answered to her shaking his head.

"Stop complaining... What's your problem anyway?" Pikuna replied annoyed. Then going over to Inc making big anime like eyes saying cutely: "Don't tell me you don't like it either... Hmm Incy?"

Inc blushed a little seeing this and answered: "I think it really suits you."

Pikuna jumped and hugged him tight giggling saying: "I knew you would love it... Not like somebody else." she finished looking towards Leo seriously.

"You know what? Who gives a damn... You girls can do whatever you want... Just as long as we go already... We'll miss the bus that brings us directly there if we don't hurry." Leo said not caring to take his Digivice from the table and going out of the room.

"Um, Leo?" Celia tried to speak with him while following him.

As soon as they left, Pikuna stuck out her tongue towards the door:

"Geez... How ungrateful can Leo be? After all the trouble I got to find that costume for Celia in the first place."

Inc started laughing a little as soon as she said that: "Why did I had a feeling that this was you're doing from the very beginning?"

Flashback

"Gardaland? What's that?" Celia asked curiously blinking two times towards Leo while walking backwards waiting for a response, her tail swishing a little every time she took a step.

Her, Leo, Pikuna and Inc were on they're way home from school and while talking for the upcoming Halloween, Leo mentioned a place called Gardaland.

"You really don't know?" Leo asked a bit surprised at this only to receive a shake of her head as a gesture of no while smiling innocently.

Seeing this he sighed: "Are you sure you're even from Verona?"

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?" Celia asked accusingly.

Pikuna couldn't help but giggle at how those two acted all the time: "Gardaland is an amusement park, Celia. It's very famous in all of Italy for how big it is and all the various places you can go and have fun."

"Oh really? I've heard of places like that but never had a chance to go. But what does this have to do with Halloween?" Celia asked curiously.

"Well, every year Gardaland organizes special festivities, and that includes Halloween as well. Actually, it's the only place where you can celebrate Halloween the way it was meant to be. All the amusement park is decorated to give it a more spooky atmosphere, and a lot of people that work there are dressed in Halloween costumes and hide in places you would expect less to scare you." Inc replied to her trying to explain it to as best as he could.

As soon as Inc said scare, Leo noticed for a slight second that Celia looked a bit startled, but he just ignored the fact maybe imagining it.

"And that's why we are going to go there... Oh, and it is also suggested that you should go there wearing a costume."

"But, I really don't know even where to start with choosing a costume." Celia said sighing a little.

"I can help you if you want." Pikuna said smiling to her.

"Really?" the Clerimon exclaimed happily.

"It's really not a problem... I have to buy mine as well... Actually..." Pikuna said to her going a bit ahead from the others taking Celia's paw to follow her.

Leo could hear that Pikuna was saying something to Celia, but try as he might, he couldn't understand what in the world she was talking about, at a certain point just hearing both of them giggling.

"What do you think she is up to?" Leo asked looking over to Inc seeing that he also was looking towards the girls attentively.

"I really don't have the slightest clue... But you know Piku... She is always so unpredictable." Inc answered.

"Yeah, unpredictably troublesome... That's for sure." Leo replied back earning a smile from Inc knowing that he was right.

Time return

"Was it really that obvious?" Pikuna replied grinning.

"Well, it doesn't take a genius... Although it would seem that I have to keep you on a leash now." he said jokingly while caressing her under her chin making her purr.

"And why's that?" Pikuna asked giggling a little leaning into the caress enjoying the attention.

"Because I wouldn't want someone to take you away from me seeing how cute you are." Inc replied smiling to her making her blush from the compliment.

"But I'm sure you won't let that happen now, would you, my handsome vampire?" Pikuna said a little seductively and playful.

"Of course not... You doubt me? Now I'm hurt." Inc replied a little dramatic playing along, receiving a kiss on the cheek from the fire cat.

"Nope, it was an affirmation."

Both Leo and Celia were out side waiting for the other two, neither one of them saying a word.

He was constantly looking at the time and at any time it would have seemed that he would burst out and take out those two by force.

"Leo?" Celia said trying to take his attention.

"What is it?" he replied not taking his eyes off the phone.

"Look, I'm sorry about the costume thing and..." she said being interrupted by him.

"Forget about it... I'm just like this cause I don't want us to get there when it's too full is all... And I think..." he said taking a small pause while the Clerimon looked at him attentively. "That this costume looks good on you." he said admittedly.

"I think you wanted to say: You look so damn hot in that costume, right tiger?" the voice resonated in his mind.

"Again that voice, what the hell is wrong with me these days?" he thought trying to figure out why does he hear it in the first place.

He never had the courage to talk to it with anyone, knowing fully that he would just be laughed at by anyone or even considered crazy.

That's one of the main reasons he was more serious those days and thought that maybe he could let everything aside having some fun on Halloween.

He was taken by surprise when Celia jumped and hugged him tight almost suffocating him.

"You really mean it?" she said happily nuzzling him to no end.

"Yes... I mean it... Let go... Can't... Breath!" he said through pauses trying to get her off of him.

"Aw... Now isn't that cute!" he heard Pikuna say getting both his and Celia's attention, letting loose a little her grip on him.

He blushed a little being caught in this position, and Pikuna's and Inc's grinning didn't help at all.

"Yeah yeah, very cute, very cute... Can we go now?" Leo said trying to regain some dignity.

"Aye aye, captain."both Pikuna and Inc answered him starting walking and bypassing him.

"You know, it's hard to walk if you keep holding me this way." Leo said looking towards Celia seriously.

"Oh, but I just started to get used to it." she said in a little sad tone teasing him.

"Fine, whatever." he replied sighing taking her by surprise that time around.

He took her paws from around his neck, then with a hand around her shoulders he pulled her closer to him.

"At least now we can move." he said to her starting walking making her do the same.

The only thing she did was nod to him without saying a word.

She couldn't believe what he was doing. For a second she actually wanted to ask him if he was sick or something.

He actually succeeded in making her blush, something that she rarely did.

Pikuna and Inc looked back at them not believing there eyes and as soon as Leo looked at them they immediately turned they're heads and looked forward trying to not look suspicious.

"Please tell me I'm not the only one who saw that just now." Pikuna said to Inc in a low tone so Leo couldn't hear her.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes... I would have never believe it." Inc replied to her also in the same tone.

Both of them looking at each other still surprised of what Leo just did.

"Say, don't you think Leo has been acting a bit, you know, weird in the past weeks?" Pikuna asked looking back again seeing Celia nuzzling Leo a little, not a single sign of protest coming from him, leaving both the Clerimon and Pikuna dumbfounded.

"More than weird... To me it seems like he's bothered by something." Inc answered to her looking back also seeing Celia putting a wing around him, again not complaining a single bit leaving her looking at him quite worried and surprised.

Inc even stoked his eyes a little to be sure he wasn't seeing things.

"Well, it must be something serious then... He usually is a carefree person..." Pikuna said getting back his attention.

"You don't think that maybe... He found it?" she continued saying a bit worried.

"Nah, I don't think so... Knowing him he would have yelled at us 24/7 if he found out... Not to mention that he would have demanded some explanation from Sebastian and the others... It must be something else." Inc answered reassuring her doing the same thing as Leo bringing her closer to him.

"If you say so... I'll talk to him when I get the chance then." Pikuna said smiling at him.

"But now that I think of it... He started to be like this after that time..." Inc thought remembering what happened that time when Pikuna asked him to sleep in her room when the Clara attacked them on the rooftop at school.

Flashback:

Both him and Pikuna noticed that Leo came out of the room and looked like he was in a hurry, passing by not looking at them.

"Hey Leo, where are you going?" Pikuna asked seeing this.

"I'm going for a walk... I'll be back for dinner time." Leo said going down the stairs.

"A walk at this hour?" Pikuna asked a bit confused. "What's with him?"

"That's strange... He does take walks now and then... But why so suddenly?" Inc thought.

"Should we follow him?" Pikuna asked looking at him.

"I don't think that is a good idea... He might get angry if he finds out..." Inc replied nuzzling her.

"Well, if you say so... It's that he seemed a bit strange." she replied nuzzling him back.

Time return

"Maybe Piku was right and we should have followed him... Man, these past few months sure have been a stress sometimes for me... It's always a problem after another." Inc thought giving a mental sigh.

After 1 full hour of bus drive

"WOW!!!!!!!!" Celia basically yelled when she saw the entrance to Gardaland, and how many people and Digimon were actually there.

"This place is so awesome!!!"

Both Pikuna and Inc couldn't help but laugh at the Clerimon's reaction.

She acted just like a little kid at that moment, even Leo smiled at her reaction.

"Well, if this is how you react to the entrance, you should see when we actually enter the park itself." Leo said to her while she still looked around in awe.

The entrance was actually a big piazza with a huge artezian fountain with on top the mascot of the park, a green dragon.

"So, what are we waiting for?" Celia asked wagging her tail in a fast pace.

"If you could just be a bit patient, I'll buy us the tickets from over there." Leo answered to her pointing behind him all the cash registers behind him with people crowded to buy tickets.

"It sure is going to take a while for you to get them seeing how many people there are." Pikuna said looking at the crowd attentively.

"Jee... I wonder who's fault is it that we arrived late?" Leo said in a sarcastic tone looking towards Pikuna a bit annoyed only to see her crossing her arms and looking away from him making a cute "Hmph."

Inc couldn't help but smile every time those two acted like this.

They really seemed like little brother and sister arguing for who was right and wrong.

"Do you have all the money with you?" he asked Leo trying to change the subject.

"Of course, what question is that anyway? 140€ for the tickets and pocket money for getting us some grub after wards at some fast food there." Leo answered him not getting the point of the question at all.

"140€?!?!?!?" Celia exclaimed hearing this with a horrified expression.

"But...but... That's just insane!!!"

"Well, what do you expect? In life having fun costs money sometimes, the ticket costs 35€ each. And don't worry, my parents gave me the money for this." Leo replied to her starting to go towards the crowd.

"You guys wait me at the ticket pass entrance in the meantime, ok?" he continued saying a little louder so they could hear him.

"Okay." the Digimon exclaimed back.

"Where ever that is." Celia said to no one in particular.

"Follow us and we'll show you... Believe me, it's easy to get lost at first... The first time I came all those years a go, I never let go of Leo's hand a single time being afraid of getting lost." Pikuna said giggling a little when she remembered how Leo tried to let go of her but she never gave him a chance.

She took Celia's paw.

"Come on, let's go".

Celia smiled at her giving a cheerful "Sure!"

"Poor Leo though, it's gonna take him half an hour at least." Inc said walking while looking seeing how many people and Digimon where in line.

"How was I supposed to know there would have been so many people? Plus Leo is making such a fuss about it... He should just give it a break." Pikuna replied in self defense.

"The same thing I said to him at home... But you know him... When he thinks he is right, he never lets go." Inc replied making a shook with his shoulders.

"Oh I'll show him right alright", she replied clenching her right paw.

"Talking about Leo... Don't you think he is not acting like his usual self? I mean, like what he did when we left home, it's so unlike him." Celia said to both of them, waiting for a response.

"We thought the same thing, but we don't know for what reason... Sometimes he acts normal, sometimes it's like he is bothered or worried about something." Inc replied to her.

"I think I got it!" Pikuna said cheerfully with a convinced glare while they arrived at the ticket pass entrance stopping in they're tracks.

"Really?" both of the dragons asked in unison when she said that glaring her waiting like two kids. "Well, don't just stand there, tell us!" Inc said to her obliging her to continue.

Smiling at them she leaned towards the right wall of the entrance and crossed her hands.

"It's quite easy, my dear suite Incy... The truth is..." she said stopping for a moment seeing that the two were basically like statues stopped in place waiting attentively.

"That Leo must start to like Celia!" she ended saying it in an affirmative tone.

Upon hearing this the two dragons only blinked two times on what Pikuna said.

"I mean, come on...It's got to be that.. He has started acting like this since Celia fainted that time... He stayed by her side till she woke up he started to acknowledge her more... In fact he did say that he accepted her to the team... And the most solid proof is today when he took her between his arm." she continued.

The two dragons looked at each other for a moment staying silent until both of them started laughing hard for at least two minutes, annoying Pikuna with every second that passed.

"WHAT'S SO FUNNY???" she yelled at a certain point getting both of they're attention, slowly starting to pull themselves together.

"I'm sorry Piku, but that was really a good one." Inc said smiling trying to excuse himself.

"Yeah, that Leo falls for me... That's rich!" Celia continued still giggling a little.

"I wasn't trying to make a joke." Pikuna said feeling a bit offended.

Noticing this Inc went towards and hugged her: "Oh, come on Piku! Don't get angry for something so insignificant...But I still find it very hard that what you mentioned is what's bothering Leo."

"Yeah, it's true that he opened up to me...and accepted me... But he couldn't go that far as having feelings for me." Celia continued.

"And what about you then?" Pikuna asked grinning at her.

Celia smiled at her and replied truthfully: "I can't say that I don't feel nothing... But just becoming friends with him these days is quite sufficient."

"She sure is sincere." Pikuna thought hearing her reply.

"To be honest I think he really trusts you fully now. It's just that he doesn't want to admit it." Inc said reassuring her.

"How can you tell?" Celia asked him curiously.

"I don't think he would have accepted you as his Digimon and friend if he didn't. In fact, I was wondering if you could talk to him once you get the chance to be alone with him... Maybe he will tell you what's wrong with him." Inc replied to her only to see Celia smiling insecurely with a talon scratching her cheek a little.

"I really don't think it's such a good idea Inc... I mean, you guys know each other much longer than me... Especially Pikuna... Plus I don't know how much of help I'll be."

"What is he trying to pull off this time?" Pikuna thought looking at him quizzically.

She did mention that she would have talked to him, so why the sudden suggestion?

"You never know unless you try. Consider it a way to see if he trusts you completely or not." Inc said trying to push her to agree and succeeded by the looks of it.

"Fine, whatever, but if something wrong happens, you're to blame. Ok?" Celia said to him looking a bit seriously meaning that she wasn't kidding.

"Seems fair." Inc replied smiling.

"Hey guys, finally made it... So, are we... Ready... To go?" Leo asked stopping between breaks in his question seeing that as soon as he arrived, both looked directly at him like pray or something.

"Is everything Ok?" he continued asking getting a "Sure" from all of them as a response.

He could only sigh when he saw this. "Sometimes I will never understand you Digimon."

He gave everyone a ticket receiving a thanks from all 3 of them.

"Ok, then... Let's go inside shall we? We already lost too much time." Leo said to them then looking to Celia.

"You come with me so I show how to use it." he continued pointing to the ticket in her paw.

"Ok!" she answered cheerfully.

Once the four of them entered they already saw the difference in the surroundings.

Jack lanterns in many places, also spider webs, tombstones and many other things that brought the Halloween spirit.

Not to mention how many people and Digimon were walking around in various costumes, from simple ghost ones to zombies and mummies.

"Man, you guys weren't kidding with this place... It's really cool" Celia said looking around in awe.

"Told ya." Leo replied to her.

"So, where do you wanna go first?" he then asked looking at both Inc and Pikuna.

Without a second thought Pikuna answered in a flash yelling cheerfully: "Blue Tornado!!!" making Leo laugh.

"I should have known. Although it's a good idea, cause that place has one hell of a line later, so blue tornado it is."

"Nya! Alright... Let's go Incy!" she yelled enthusiastically taking Inc's left paw starting running with him.

"Piku! Slow down! You're going to fast!" Inc said being taken by surprise, but Pikuna didn't stop they're pass at all, leaving an amused Leo and Celia and other people and Digimon looking at them a bit confused.

"And here I thought that I was the one in a hurry." Leo said grinning.

"Is that one of the attractions?" Celia asked curiously.

"Correct... One of the many that are around here. There are quite a lot of them. From roller coasters, like the one we're going to now called Blue Tornado, to 4D Movies. Also, you will notice some places that have a resemblance to places like a far west town or a pirate bay." Leo answered to her.

"So, basically, this place is like a small city." Celia said waiting for her confirm from him.

"Pretty much. Come one, let's go. The Blue Tornado isn't far from here." he said taking her paw, again Celia finding this really strange.

When they started moving he continued saying: "Don't get the wrong idea, it's just that it's really easy to get lost around here with all the people around."

Celia smiled a little at this seeing that he answered in his all none caring way.

"At least he is back to his normal self for now." she thought.

Along the way a lot of people looked towards them like they were some sort of new attraction, although Leo thought was all Celia's fault and his assumption was correct when he started hearing some comments like:

"Isn't she just adorable?"

"She is really hot."

"Don't young ones have at least a bit of decency these days?"

"That lucky bastard having a Digimon like that."

Celia must have heard them too since she started waving her tail cutely and making a cute smile to hear other comments.

The one that made him grin was when he heard: "I think that the cat Digimon in the maid costume that passed by was a lot cuter"

"Guess Inc is passing through the same thing as me." Leo thought to himself.

"You two sure gathered some attention around here. And not even five minutes have passed." he said ending with a deep sigh.

He knew this was going to happen.

"That's because you two are very lucky to have two little cute girls like us." she answered him getting close to him and nuzzling him.

"Yeah, Very cute... Very cute." Leo said sarcastically trying to put a little distance between them failing miserably.

"What? Don't tell that isn't true... Because if not you wouldn't have accepted that kiss last time." she said getting closer to his ear whispering: "And enjoying it"

"Bullshit... You took me by surprise... That's all." Leo said in defense in a high tone.

"True... But that doesn't explain why didn't you stop me after wards..." Celia pointed out seeing Leo in peril, not knowing what to say.

She loved to tease him a lot.

It never got old.

He acted tough with her but he was easy to embarrass.

"That's because..." he started saying in a low tone with his head looking at the ground.

"For some reason I thought it felt right to be kissing with you in that moment. I couldn't bring myself to stop you."

Celia had to admit that she never expected to receive this answer in the least.

She just said it trying to joke with him, put it ended up in something more serious.

She even doubted that maybe what Pikuna said was not such a great part of her imagination after all.

"I'm sorry... I was just joking." Celia said apologizing to him.

"Then obviously you don't know how to joke. You know, it wouldn't surprise me if that kiss you did was also a joke to you." Leo said a bit coldly.

"No, I-" she started saying seeing that the situation was getting worse.

"Save it Celia...Let's end this discussion... I came here to have fun today and I won't let you ruin it. Got it?" he said to her a bit harshly, Celia seeing completely his angry gaze and she thought that it was best to just nod.

"I messed up again. I didn't mean to make it seem as I was fooling around with what happened that night. After all, that kiss was my very first one." she thought a bit saddened.

They finally arrived at the Blue Tornado already seeing Pikuna sitting on top o Inc on one of the benches near the line up for the attraction.

"Man, you two sure took your time. Thanks to you, the line just got longer to wait." Pikuna said a bit accusingly.

"Since you came here running earlier you should have gone on the ride since you complain so much." Leo said a bit irritated.

"Well, excuse me if I waited for you so we could go together like every family would do. What's your freaking problem today Leo?" Pikuna said to him now starting to get angry getting up and going towards him with an angered expression.

"I have no problems, it's you that continues saying useless comments. What was the use of running towards here knowing fully that we were behind?" Leo asked back now getting angered himself.

"You're the one to talk that did it all the time every year...At least don't ruin the mood for the others if you woke up on the other side of the bed." Pikuna said poking a finger in his chest .

"If you were in my place you would see why." Leo wanted to say to her but he decided it was best to remain silent.

"Hey you two, that's enough!" Inc said in an aggressive tone getting both they're attention.

"We didn't come here to argue and fight all day, now did we?" he continued getting up and going towards them.

"But-" both Leo and Pikuna started to say only to be caught by Inc giving them a cold stare making them stay silent on the spot once he said: "Do I make myself clear?" making them nod instantly.

"Never knew Inc could be this scary!" Celia thought looking at the scene before her, not to mention that others looked at their direction too.

That's why maybe he intervened in the first place.

"Fine then, let's go in the line, shall we? You too, Celia." he said looking towards her.

"Oh yeah...Sure." Celia answered after a few seconds going towards them also.

Before Inc took Pikuna's paw he said to Leo so only he could hear: "Try demonstrating you're the elder one among us sometimes."

Then he went with her in the line, Celia approached Leo soon after looking at him in concern.

"There has to be something that it's making him act like this. But what?"

Leo knew very well what Inc meant.

It was true that he acted like a child complaining all day, but still,there where too many things on his mind right now.

He admitted Inc was right on one side, but on the other part he just couldn't understand.

He just sighed and got in the line with the others.

He thought that there is no need to make the situation worse than it is.

"Are you angry, Incy?" Pikuna asked looking at him a bit saddened, both of them taking a step forward

once the line started moving.

"You never let go, do you? You see that he is in a bad mood. I don't see why you should have commented once they arrived?" Inc responded scolding her a little.

"I didn't know he would have responded that way. I got a little fired up by what he said. I just said that to him to tease him a little. It's what we usually do between us. I understand of being in a bad mood and everything, but he is exaggerating." Pikuna answered to him trying to show that it wasn't entirely her fault.

"Yeah, I know Piku. I was just saying that if you just didn't say anything maybe nothing would have happened, that's all." Inc responded moving a step forward again.

"Ok, ok, my bad then... By the way, why did you ask Celia to talk to him instead of me." she asked him, the thing that Inc said earlier to Celia steal curios to her.

She noticed him grin a little at her question and replied smiling to her.

"To see if you're little theory is true or not."

"You mean?" she asked trying to see if he meant what she was thinking also.

"Yeah, what you said to me and Celia earlier." Inc replied to her.

"I don't see what connection can it have though." she said while seeing that they were almost there or their turn.

"I for one see it though...But I could be mistaken." he said thinking what Sebastian told him "The more those two get closer... The stronger they'll get."

"If you say so." Pikuna replied back not understanding fully what was his plan.

On the blue tornado Pikuna was sitting next to Inc, while Leo sat next to Celia right behind them. Once it started to move slowly going up, Celia looked towards Leo a bit worried saying.

"I'm not really sure of this"

"Well, you can't get off it now since it started. Don't worry, the first time always makes you uneasy." Leo answered to her, the first time he saw her worried and a little frightened.

"I agree. The first time I wanted to get off so badly." Pikuna said turning her head towards Celia smiling.

"If you say so." Celia replied, still not entirely assured.

When the Blue Tornado arrived at the top, Celia reached for Leo's hand without noticing at the moment.

When he noticed it, he remembered Pikuna doing the same thing the first time they went on this attraction and sighing he took her paw and held it tight reassuring her.

As soon as it started to fall all the people started to yell from the fun and adrenaline or fright, Celia being one of those.

Even if the ride lasted only 35 seconds, those where the 35 longest seconds of her life seeing how fast it went and loops it did.

The thing that she noticed was that Leo seemed really having fun at the moment seeing a very content expression on his face.

When the ride ended and they got off, Celia noticed that her legs where shaking and could barely move.

"Hey Celia,are you alright?" Pikuna asked worried seeing this.

"Don't ever make me go on this thing again!" Celia said to her a little angry.

Pikuna couldn't help but laugh at her response.

"Ok, ok, cat's honor."she said winking while smiling.

"Just take a little break to recompose yourself."

"At least we know these kind of attractions aren't your best." Inc said sitting on a bench where Leo was already seated, the girls joining soon after.

"So I guess no Raptor, Space Vertigo and other extreme rides today in this case." Pikuna mentioned knowing fully well that Celia would have problems on those also.

"You can go on them without me...I wouldn't mind." Celia replied to her truthfully.

"Nonsense, it's not nice to leave someone behind...Plus, there are a lot of other places we can go that aren't like this one, so no problem." Leo said to her.

"Are you sure? I wouldn't want to ruin the fun." Celia said looking down a little.

"Nah, you're worrying to much Cel... We really don't mind, right Incy?" Pikuna asked looking over to Inc while patting Celia gently.

"Sure...after all...we couldn't have done them all anyway...it's basically impossible to do all the attractions in one day." Inc said nodding.

"I'll get you something to drink so you can cool off a little...be right back." Leo said getting up and going away,

"Try not to get lost." Inc said jockey.

"Yeah, you wish." he replied back.

While walking around Leo had to admit that that year the place had a lot of more people visiting this place on Halloween.

In some parts it seemed like there were huge crowds moving along.

Entering inside one of the many vendors around the place he bought a coca cola that obviously cost three times that it usually should elsewhere , but he didn't complain since he was used how things worked around here.

Thanking the vendor and started leaving he accidentally bumped into someone by mistake saying immediately: "Sorry, my bad...I..." he said but stopped as soon as he saw who was in front of him.

He couldn't believe his eyes at the moment and even rubbed them a second to be sure.

"I think I'm really starting to lose it."

In front of him stood a female version of Inc in all aspects except for her long silver hair and a good looking one at that.

She had the same night blue color and her muzzle with the same light blue as Inc with green emerald eyes.

She was wearing a nurse costume with an white and red crop top, a mini skirt with the same design and red garters and matching thigh high stockings.

"No problem...just be more careful next time." she replied to him which he only nodded.

Leo could only stand and look at her in awe still not understanding how something like this is possible.

"Is there something wrong?" she asked him seeing that he wouldn't take his eyes off her.

"No, no...it's nothing really...It's just that your resemble someone I know...a lot actually." Leo responded telling her the truth.

"Oh, I see... You've thought that I was that person?" she asked smiling a little.

"Not exactly... It's just your appearance that left me speechless..." he replied to her smiling back.

"I get it... Well see ya around." she said starting to go pass him,but Leo stopped her grabbing her left paw saying: "Wait!" noticing that he startled her slightly.

"What Digimon are you? I never saw one like you except another person that happens to be my Digimon also." he asked her looking a bit serious.

"I'm a Femacendramon...You can call me Fema...And as far as I know, there is no one that I saw of my own species." she answered looking at him with interest and asked after wards: "The thing I want to know is, what are you?"

The question seemed very weird to Leo.

"What does she mean?" he thought not getting the sense of her question but replied jokingly.

"Well, I'm pretty sure I'm human by the looks of it... My names Leonardo...but it's Leo for short." he said letting go of her paw and starting going away saying: "Thanks for your time."

Fema continued looking at Leo a bit puzzled raising her paw a little then looking at it.

"I felt a great amount of energy from that guy when he touched me, something I never felt before. Just who is he?" she thought.

"Man, if that wasn't a rule 63, then I don't know what other thing is. She was so similar to Inc in so many ways. But she did say that she hasn't seen another Digimon like herself, and the same goes for Inc and Pikuna. I wonder if this has some sort of connection to it." Leo thought while turning back to the others.

He stopped in his tracks though when he started to feel something like a tingle on his neck when he he was watched behind his back.

In a mere second all the persons around him seemed like they disappeared and around him was only was a thick fog that seemed to emit a cold feeling.

"What the hell is going on?" he thought looking around and suddenly he felt someone grabbing him and putting a hand around his mouth.

He tried to fight back but felt like his strength was leaving him with the second it pass and started feeling cold around him till he started to faint.

"Man, what's taking that Leo so long?" Pikuna said almost yelling making Inc laugh a little.

"You sounded just like him when he yelled this morning." Inc said to her only to receive an annoyed glare from the fire cat.

"Not funny Incy."

"Well, it's true." he said petting her gently on the head receiving a purr from her.

"But you're right,he is kinda taking to long."

"Maybe he caught another huge line of people again...Seeing how many there were for the tickets I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens at the vendors." Celia pointed out as a possible explanation.

"I wouldn't be so sure...It's true that a lot of people buy refreshments and food around here but there are so many venders that you don't have the problem to stay and wait to buy something." Pikuna answered the Clerimon.

"Don't you think it's easier if we just call him?" Inc said to them and grinned seeing that both made a face like saying: "Why didn't I thought of that?"

"Incy, you're a genius!" Pikuna said cheerfully while taking out her phone and looked in her contacts for Leo's number.

"Naturally." Inc responded to her proudly smiling big only to receive a small poke on his snout from Pikuna.

"Silly dragon."

When she started calling Leo, the operator immediately replied saying: "We're sorry, but the client you tried to reach is at the moment unavailable or unreachable. Please try to call again later."

"Well?" both Inc and Celia asked curiously seeing that Pikuna started to have a worried expression.

"That's strange. It seems his unavailable or unreachable...but he never let's his cellphone off and I doubt he hasn't got any signal." Pikuna closing putting away her phone and looking at them continued: "What do you think might have happened to him?"

"Well if something would have happened I think that they would have announced it. This place is full of surveillance and security." Inc replied back

While the two were talking Celia in the meantime was sniffing the air a little and getting up in a flash she said: "I'll go search for him!" and started running towards were Leo left earlier.

"But Celia, wait! You don't even know this place!" Pikuna yelled at her only to get ignored.

"Deja Vu much?" Inc said sighing remembering that the same situation happened the first day of school.

He then got up and held up a paw to Pikuna.

"Let's go after her. The chances are that we will lose her as well."

"Ok, so much for a calm and fun Halloween day." Pikuna said taking his paw getting up also.

They started to run toward were Celia went a couple of people looking at them strangely.

"Look at the bright side. It's thanks to those two that we get entertainments like this every day." Inc said sarcastically.

"You sure are in a good humor today. I just hope nothing bad happened to Leo. He has been targeted already two times in the past months." she said a bit worried.

"Don't worry Piku... I'm sure we'll find him. Like I said, this place is very well guarded and the Clerimon aren't that stupid to attack this place head one just for one person." Inc said reassuring her.

"Yeah, that's true, but still, I can't get rid of this feeling that something bad is going to happen." Pikuna replied.

They both stopped in they're tracks when they ended the path split in two ways.

"Now what?" Pikuna looked over at Inc for an idea.

"Simple, I take the left, you the right. The problem is that other paths split up later one obviously... So, look wherever you can... If any of us find Celia, Leo or with a bit of luck both, we phone each other and wait at the entrance of Gardaland, ok?" Inc explained to her.

"Sounds like a plan. Good luck then!" Pikuna said kissing him on the cheek before leaving.

"Good luck to you too!" he yelled so she could hear him and went towards the left path.

"It's a good thing his scent is easier to distinguish than the other ones. Finding him will be easier than I thought." Celia thought positively while running, doing some left and rights between people to get through.

"I just hope he is alright. He really seems to get in trouble lately, not that it would be a surprise or any-" she thought until she slammed into someone and fell to the ground.

"Ouch, that really hurt." she said shaking her head a little to regain her senses.

"What's with all the hurry?" a male voice spoke to her and she saw a yellow to orange furred paw offered to her to get up.

She took it not looking at who it actually was at first.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm okay...nothing badly damaged...Sorry if I bumped in-to-you?" she said cheerfully smiling big to the person but finished her sentence slowly and a bit taken aback at who she saw before her.

The one she bumped into was a male cat Digimon, very similar to Pikuna in fact.

He had fur similar to hers, even his eyes were red eyes with the exception for his tail that didn't had a lion like base like hers.

He had a really simple costume, he was a mummy with white paper overall his body.

"It's like they're twins." Celia thought looking all over him.

"Not a problem." he answered recognizing on the spot what she was, but it didn't seem like she was looking for a battle or anything, but still he thought to stay on guard just in case.

"Sure seems strange seeing a Clerimon in a sexy witch costume going around here."

Celia was taken a little by surprise by his last statement:"So, he knows what I am."

"Actually, this was a friend of mine's idea. Say, have you seen a guy with hazel eyes in a rip grimmer costume around here?" she asked him avoiding the Clerimon subject he tried to take on.

"How should I know? There are like hundreds of people in costumes like those." he replied pointing on his right showing already two people with a costume similar to Leo.

"What kind of a question is that? She is strange."

"Well, it was worth a try... Having a tamer is harder than I thought. Say, what's your name?" Celia asked smiling while keeping her paws behind her back, waving her tail cutely.

"Hmm...it's Dashi... Look, I have to go now. Like you, I'm searching for someone also." he said to her starting to leave but soon stopped when she gave him a small kiss on the cheek making him turn red on the spot and some persons around even whistled at the scene.

"That's for helping me get up... I'm Celia by the way... I hope you find your friend." she said before leaving.

Dashi at that moment remained speechless and could only bring his paw to his cheek where he was kissed.

"What's wrong with that Clerimon? Man, good luck Fema didn't see this or she could get the wrong idea. I just wonder where she went off to?" he thought.

Fema has been gone for a while actually a while and he started to get worried a little, so was her tamer.

While going looking around for any trace of her, he remembered something that Celia said that he didn't pay attention to at first.

"A Clerimon that has a tamer? But that means..."

Following Leo's scent Celia arrived in a small plaza with a fountain in the middle and flower decorations around it.

There were three vendors around and a little far there was an attraction called "Colorado Boat", a ride on water with a log formed boat.

At a certain point in the plaza, she finally came to a stop a bit puzzled.

"That's strange. His scent stops here. It's like he disappeared into thin air. It just doesn't make any sense."

Now she actually started to get worried and couldn't find an explanation to this.

How can a person just disappear without leaving a trace?

And without anyone noticing?

She thought that contacting Inc and Pikuna would be the best thing at this point.

She was about to pick her phone when she started to sense something, like a sense of danger drawing near her.

Looking around she couldn't see a thing.

Just people moving along, passing by her from time to time.

Slowly, slowly, a fog started to appear in her surroundings and the people around her seemed just to be disappeared.

In no time she called her swords and stood on guard.

She could have sworn that she could here far away sinister laughter coming from all the parts and a sudden of cold sensation reaching her.

It actually gave her small chills on her spine.

"Come on Celia, now's not the time to lose your cool." she thought trying to encourage herself.

She was sure something is out there.

But what?

"Show yourself already. How long are you going to stay hidden in this little fog of yours?" Celia said out loud but not receiving any response, but she sensed that this entity was getting closer.

She was ready for him, already looking around to where it could strike, but she was caught off guard when multiple transparent white arms came out of the ground around her, and gripped her from everywhere making her drop her swords.

"What the hell are these things!!!"

She was forcefully being pushed underground and disappeared the only thing seen left where she stood was a round black and red portal on the ground that closed soon after with the same sinister laughter.

Pikuna was waiting at the entrance of the amusement park, looking at the ground with a worried look. She couldn't find any trace of Leo, but Celia also.

She was sure she looked everywhere on her part.

Plus, a white angel winged dragoness should be easy to notice.

She noticed Inc was arriving also with no one of them with him.

"No luck?" Pikuna asked him with a saddened tone.

"Nope, not a single trace. I don't get it. I searched everywhere I could think off." Inc said a bit exasperated losing his calm a little.

"What do we do Incy? We didn't lose only Leo, but Celia also." she asked him hoping that he came with a plan like he usually did, but this time around the only thing he could say with a sad tone is.

"I don't know."

"Should we go search again?" she asked.

"Guess it's the only thing we can do." Inc replied taking her paw gently.

"We will search everywhere, every single place, even the trash cans if we have to." making her giggle with his last statement.

"Ok, count me in". she said smiling

While the two were walking around the western like part of Gardaland, both of the Digimon couldn't help but hear something that took they're curiosity.

A couple of people were talking while near a shooting game.

"Have you found him?" a person asked another, who was panting maybe because he ran all that time.

"No, can't find any trace of him. The line also says he's phone is unreachable." the person replied.

"But he said that he was going to the small plaza where they sell caramel apples to buy some, since he liked those. Where could he have gone too?" the other one continued.

Both Inc and Pikuna looked at each other saying at the same time.

"You don't think?"

"But, Leo did say he wanted to buy Celia something to drink." Pikuna pointed out the main reason all this started.

"And the closest place to buy refreshments and food from where we were is the plaza near the Colorado Boat. I think we might be back on track Piku. Seems were not the only ones in this situation" Inc replied.

"But didn't you check that place already?" she asked him curiously.

"True, but I only checked to see if they would be there. I didn't inspect every small detail of the place." he explained.

"Well, what are we waiting for? We got to go there as soon as possible." Pikuna said starting to walk in a fast pace, Inc following her soon after.

When they arrived at the place, they looked around but everything seemed normal to them.

Everyone walking along happily while chatting or others taking a break and sitting around.

"Doesn't seem that this place looks suspicious to me." Pikuna pointed out looking around for anything that seemed strange, but unfortunately nothing.

"Appearances can always fool us at first glance. Let's go search around." Inc stated.

They passed the next half an hour in that plaza, searching basically every inch of the place, but they couldn't find a thing, not even a person that could be suspicious.

Pikuna took a seat on the benches near where the flower ornaments where near the fountain and sighed: "I'm beat... No trace of anything in this place."

"Yeah... I hate to admit it, but I'm out of ideas." Inc said taking a seat next to her.

"So we're back to square one again. Maybe it was just a coincidence with that guy back there." she said with a sad tone and heard a small laughter near her.

"You know Incy, I don't find this funny at all." she said looking a bit angry at him.

"What are you talking about?" Inc asked confused.

"Don't play dumb, you just laughed a few seconds a go." she answered him not in the least amused.

"But I didn't laugh. I swe-" he replied but stopped when he heard the small laughter himself.

They both tuned to look at the small grass field around the fountain with the flower ornaments, but there were also some graves put in some places for the Halloween decoration.

"A sound effect maybe?" Inc said trying to find a logical explanation but soon took that back when a fog came out of the grave and suddenly all the people around the plaza seemed to have disappeared.

A transparent white hand came out from one of the graves and stretched fast towards them.

Seeing this both o them jumped from the bench that soon was crushed by the hand when it made contact.

"Amaterasu!" Pikuna yelled, her scythe appearing between flames in her right paw.

"I'm sure that was a special effect also." Pikuna said sarcastic smiling towards Inc mentioning what just happened earlier.

"Yeah, yeah... Make fun of me why don't ya?" he replied with an annoyed look and bringing his left paw forward he pronounced: "Martyr" making his sword appear, gripping its yellow-orange hilt.

The same hands started to come from all the graves going towards them, both of them slashing all of them in a single thrust.

"Sorry, you can see, but not touch." Pikuna said jokingly getting ready for the second round.

This time, they came from the ground and both the Digimon dodged them at the last second.

"These things sure are persistent." Inc said cutting some of them.

They both looked in horror when they saw that the hands came from all the directions around them, not expecting this in the least, catching them unable to move.

Near the graves a red and black portal opened and they both were pushed towards it.

They tried to pose resistance but failed and soon they were thrown inside, both of them yelling.

Opening her eyes slowly, Celia found herself leaning on a tree.

She got up while looking were she was, but obviously this wasn't the plaza were she was before. "We're in the world am I?" she said taking around her surroundings.

Around her there were a lot of buildings in bad shape, that seemed ready to come down at any moment.

On the ground there was this mist that passed by, similar to the one when she was attacked.

But the thing that took her curiosity was that it was night time and there was a full moon that held a shade of red.

The only thing that illuminated the place were the weird lampposts around that gave a small amount of light.

"It kinda gives a creepy atmosphere." she thought a bit afraid.

"But where should I go? This place seems to go on forever." she said looking at how far the road went, plus she could choose a great number of paths.

She just went towards the one on her left, thinking that it wouldn't make that much difference.

Walking around she couldn't see even one person, like the place was completely deserted.

She went for five minutes and since she didn't find a thing she decided that flying wasn't a bad idea this time around.

Flapping her wings to take more altitude she couldn't believe how big this place was, it was like a large metropolis, the only thing that took her eye was a big cathedral very far away and that was just were she was going to fly to.

"It's sad that such a huge place is in this condition. I wonder what happened?" she thought looking around while flying.

The thing that took her curiosity was when she saw a person running in the streets running around, even though she couldn't recognize who it was.

She started to decline and going towards the person.

After all, maybe he could tell her were she was or maybe it could be Leo.

"Hey, wait up!" she yelled at the person as soon as she was close enough to the ground, but the same hands that attacked her before came out from the ground and buildings, catching her airborne.

"Oh, no you don't!" she yelled while in both hands she created blue energy spheres and launched them yelling: "Solar Flare!"

As soon as they made contact a small explosion emitted while Celia landed with a back flip bringing her wings to protect herself till the explosion ended.

"Think you can fool me twice?" Celia said giggling calling out her swords.

"How about doing me a favor and showing yourself this time around for a cute little girl like me hmm?" she said trying to mock her enemy to make him appear and she wished she just would have shut up with what she saw afterward.

Coming out from the walls of the buildings and grounds were actual ghosts, with black eyes an pointed teeth that gave quite the horrid expression.

"G-g-g-ghoooooosts!" Celia yelled and started running away actually leaving the ghosts a bit in disbelief but started to tail her soon afterwords.

Celia was so preoccupied in running that she didn't even think to fly way so she could escape.

At a certain point when she turned right taking a different route, she was taken by surprise when she was grabbed in a flash and dragged with force to a small alley on the left,with a hand on her muzzle and another keeping her in place.

She tried to oppose it but suddenly stopped when she heard her capture saying: "Stop it will ya? Otherwise they'll spot us." recognizing the voice immediately.

The ghosts passed by on the main route looking around to find any trace of her, but then moved on.

As soon as there was no more sign of them Celia felt the grip on her loosen and the hand off of her muzzle. Not even turning to look to be sure she jumped on the person making it slam towards the wall of the building nuzzling him to no end and saying cheerfully: "You don't know how happy I am that you're here Leo! Thank goodness you're ok!"

"Hey, come one. Cut it out. And don't yell like that or you will give us in." Leo said trying to make the giddy Clerimon stop, but failed miserably like always.

"Oops, sorry... Guess I got carried away... But still... I was worried something bad might have happened to you when you didn't show up anymore at Gardaland." she said while lying her head on his chest hugging him tight while her tail was lifted high and swishing slowly, making him blush a little at the scene, the costume she wear already making it worse for him.

"Why does she always have to act so sassy and cute at the same time?" he thought cursing himself actually admitting defeat this time.

"Sorry if I worried you, but one of those ghosts made me loose consciousness and the next thing I know I found myself in this place all by myself. I've been going around in circles till now trying not to get spotted by them, well...till they found you I suppose." he explained while petting her gently on the head hearing a content murr from her while she started nuzzling him again and her tail swishing faster: "What the heck am I doing?" he thought stopping his petting leaving Celia a bit discontent at his gesture saying.

"Why do you always have to stop when it gets good?"

"Leaving that aside, how did you get here anyway?" Leo asked curiously.

"Oh, well I tried to find you using your scent, but it stopped in a plaza. And then this hands came out and took me here and now I found out they're actually ghosts." she said a bit frightened and shivering at the end.

Leo could only grin at what he discovered at the moment.

Why didn't he noticed this earlier?

That time when Inc talked about scaring people when she flinched and when he heard her yell the word ghosts when she came towards him.

Finally he could get some payback: "Why Celia, it wouldn't be that you're afraid of ghosts now, are you?"

"N-N-N-No, what makes you think that?" she said trying to deny it but she didn't full him.

"Well ok then. Cause this place is full of them it seems and they seem to want us." he continued actually trying to not laugh at the face she made.

"B-b-but f-f-for what?" she said between chills.

"Well, some legends on Halloween say that ghosts appear to take another ones body as host so that they can live anew. And when they find they're target...They never let go till they get what they want...They'll haunt you when you never expect and take you by surprise... " he said giving a more spooky tone.

"R-R-Really?" was the only thing she could reply.

She didn't notice but she was shivering quite a lot and Leo could feel it, but he decided to keep the joke a little longer.

"Yeah, like the one that is behind right about now." he said and didn't expect her to actually fall for it getting up in a flash calling a sword on her left hand who she couldn't even keep steady yelling: "Where is it?" but didn't see a thing.

At that point Leo started laughing really hard the scene being just so priceless.

Celia turned at him looking pretty angry: "Making a joke by playing with someone's fear is very lame, you know?"

"You should have seen yourself!" he said still laughing a little stopping slowly taking a deep breath to calm himself.

"Whatever." she said looking away from him.

"Hey, I was just joking. No need to take it so seriously. Plus, with all the things you've been doing to me since we met this doesn't even make us even. Still, a Clerimon that is afraid of ghosts. You never see them all it seems" Leo said getting up from the ground.

"It's not my fault, but they frighten me to death. It's kinda silly, isn't it?" Celia said giggling at the end.

"That's not true." he said surprising Celia with his response, expecting him to make fun of her more.

"Everyone of us have something they are afraid. Actually, the reason I didn't trust you at first was because I was actually afraid of you, afraid that you were just with us and acted the way you are to deceive us. But I saw that I was wrong that time on the school 's rooftop."

"Afraid of me?" she said laughing a little not expecting to hear that from him.

"But how can something as cute as me frighten you?" she said getting close to him moving her tail slowly on his leg, the same thing she did the first time in his room when they first met.

"I'm trying to make a serious conversation here!" Leo exclaimed when she did that.

"Say, were Pikuna and Inc with you before coming here?"

"I kinda left them behind since I ran to search you." she said rubbing the back of her head.

"I wonder I they're here or still at Gardaland? Plus the Digivice here doesn't even tell if you're here or not." Leo said taking out his Digivice trying to see if it show Celia near him but nothing.

"Well, actually while I was flying I saw someone running but I couldn't see his figure cause the ghosts attacked me when I tried getting near him." Celia explained.

"You are part right of calling them ghost Celia. See for yourself." he said tossing her the Digivice and once she cached it an image of the same ghosts that attacked her appeared.

"Bakemon, virus Digimon, ghost type. They're attacks are Zombie Claw, Evil charm, Ghost chop and Poison Breath." she said reading the info on the Digivice out loud.

"So they were Digimon all along?"

"So it seems. What I don't get is why they brought us here? You only saw one person but I haven't seen anyone, except you, plus where was that guy heading anyway?" he asked curiously.

"My guess is he was heading in the same direction I was going also." she answered him.

"And that is?" he asked.

"A big castle that stands in the middle of the city. It's the only thing different besides the buildings here."

"A castle you say? I guess it won't hurt going to visit it. Do you remember the direction we need to take?" he said while looking around to see if the main street was clear then he walked out of the alley followed by Celia.

"Yup. It's a bit of a walk though. We need to go this way." she said pointing her right.

"Well, if it is to get out of this place... I'll walk for a week if it takes...Plus if Pikuna and Inc are luckier than us and are still at Gardaland, they must be worried sick about us. So off to the castle!" he said cheerfully at the end started marching in the direction Celia pointed.

Celia had to giggle a little at his act.

"It's good to see you're back to your usual self."

"Hmm?" he said while turning to look at her quizzically.

"What I mean is that you weren't acting your old self in the past weeks... Me, Pikuna and Inc noticed it... You continued getting in a fight with her but Pikuna was the one that was the most worried." Celia explained.

"Oh, you mean that. I guess... I have been acting a bit strange lately... But I have a couple of reasons." he said with a sad expression starting to move again but was stopped by Celia running towards him and grabbing his hand.

"I know that I've known you for so little... And I don't have the same bond that you three have... But if you need me or need someone to talk... I'll gladly be there for you." she said truthfully from the bottom of her heart.

Leo again thought that he will be never able to understand her, on how can she be able to act the way she is and then become serious all of a sudden.

But he couldn't deny that her words actually comforted him in a way.

"Fine... I guess I can tell you... But promise... By all means... That this stays something only between us... Ok?" he said to her, Celia seeing that he wasn't joking, meaning that this had to be something serious.

"I promise I won't Leo... You can count on me." she answered him showing that he could trust her.

"Very well... And thanks... I owe you." he said smiling to her.

"Nah it's no big deal... It's the least I can do... After all... Being with you guys is the best thing that happened to me... I feel like I finally found a family again." she said smiling back.

"Yeah, a pretty weird and insane one at that." he said jokingly

"But that's why I like it... It's always fun with you guys." she said cheerfully.

"Being with you is always fun."

"The reason I acted weird these days is because... I found out something that really worries me..." he said to her, Celia already looking at him in horror thinking the worst of what he could mean.

"Can't we take a break Incy? We've been walking for hours!" Pikuna said hanging her head down while walking slowly because of how tired she was.

"Hours is a bit to exaggerated Piku... It's not even been 45 minutes... Are we closer to the presence you sense?" Inc asked turning to look at her.

When the two Digimon woke up and found themselves in this place, Pikuna could sense a presence peaty far away and they both walked towards it till know hopping to find it and with some luck, maybe it could have been Leo or Celia.

"Let's see..." she said while she closed her eyes and her ear twitched two times.

"Yeah, we're actually not far away... I sense them on the north west direction from where we are standing." she said opening her eyes.

"Them? You mean there is more than one now?" Inc asked curiously.

Pikuna nodded saying: "Yeah, I guess now that were closer I can use my ability better. What I don't get is why it hasn't moved a single bit... It seems it's been staying in the same direction ever since we got here."

"I guess we're going to find out in a while now, won't we? Lead the way if you would." he said politely and offered a paw like a gentleman which she took gently playing by his game.

"Why sure."

"You know, having moments like these where there are only the two of us are really enjoyable." he said to her while they were walking.

"Yeah, they sure are... Mostly because we are a big family and all so we don't get that many chances."she replied nuzzling him.

"That's the main reason I guess. Although I couldn't imagine what it would be like without them." Inc said grinning.

"You have to admit that Celia filled in the family more easily than we first thought, especially getting close to Leo, even though he still finds her annoying sometimes." she said giggling remembering when she caught them while Celia was on top of Leo.

"Annoying? Or deep down he likes her ways of teasing? That's the answer I would like to know. Either way they make quite the couple." Inc said imagining those two actually being together.

"It sure would seem strange though."

"Well... We too make a great couple if you ask me." she said leaning her head on his shoulder.

"Indeed we do. And a flaming couple at that." he said smiling towards her.

"Flaming couple... I like the sound of that." she said smiling back.

Looking ahead Inc started to see something a little far away.

Something big.

"A castle maybe? Well, it wouldn't be a surprise... This place is as weird as it can get."

"Hey Piku... I think we are getting near our destination... Look!" he said pointing towards the castle in the distance, Pikuna looking also curiously.

"Well I'll be... It's huge! At least now we know why the presence I felt never moved." she said looking amazed at the structure, already noticing how big it was already from this distance.

"Yeah... Although it's gonna take us forever to search that place up from the bottom to the top... I hope Leo or Celia are there at least."Inc said.

"Well, it's the most prominent thing around here, so chances are that they could be there. Maybe they even had luck and found each other." Pikuna replied positively.

When they reached the entrance to the castles courtyard, they looked high to see how tall it actually was.

"We have to search all this?" they both said in unison thinking that what Ind said could be actually true. It would take forever.

"Well no use complaining now since we are here." Inc said pushing the iron gate to enter the courtyard, which emitted a rusty sound seeing how old it was by the looks of it, not that the garden was that much better.

Old trees without leaves, jack o lanterns around that had lighted candles inside.

"Well at least there is someone that lives around here."

For the rest there wasn't a thing.

It's like the place was dead.

"Very strange fashion to keep this place." Inc said joking while looking around.

"Well look at the bright side... At least those things that attacked us at Gardaland aren't around here" Pikuna replied while walking towards the castle's entrance, but as soon as he reached the staircase the same hands attacked her and some of them went towards Inc as well, but both reacted calling her weapons and slicing them.

"Speak of the devil." Inc said going immediately towards Pikuna's side while at least 20 Bakemon came out from the ground and surrounded them.

"Looks like the welcome comity showed up." Pikuna said smirking getting already fired up, this time not letting them have they're way.

"And a numerous one at that... They shouldn't have bothered so much." Inc said with his guard up.

"Care for a little match? Whoever gets more of them wins." Pikuna said challenging him.

"And what do you bet on?" Inc asked smiling towards her, thinking that the idea wasn't bad.

"We'll think on it later on...Looks like they can't wait to entertain us." she replied seeing that the Digimon we're about to strike.

"Fine...Not complaining... Since I'll be winning anyway." he said teasing Pikuna who answered back: "Full of ourselves, aren't we?"

Inc wanted to answer her but couldn't since they started to be assaulted and both said in unison: "Heads up!"

As soon as Inc saw that one attacked him with they're claw attack, he easily dodged by jumping and with a flip he made a slash towards the ground hacking the offending ghost in two pieces who dissipated into data.

"You guys should have stayed hidden where you were like last time...this is just to easy." Inc said while raising his sword and did a "Bring it on" gesture taunting them, making the Bakemon that we're near him go towards him in anger.

Inc grinned and took his stance saying: "Works every time."

Pikuna decided to end it really fast and with style.

When the first Bakemon went attacking her, she attacked him head on, piercing it with her scythe, who remained empaneled, then she slammed it towards another one killing two birds with one shot.

Others were starting to get near her, but that's what she wanted and when they were within reach, her scythe started to be engulfed in flames and with a 360 strike she yelled "Blazing Scythe!" hitting at least six of them one after another like they were domino pieces.

Inc on his part was doing great as well, not receiving even a scratch.

He tricked two of them when they attacked from both his sides dodging they're attacks making them collide between each other and slashed them both with and horizontal hit.

He had other four to go who attacked him as soon as he finished the other two.

He could have ended all of them in one strike if he wanted but why ruining the fun?

When one attacked him he dodged with a back flip remaining upside down with a hand on the ground and with a right kick he stroke the attacking Bakemon sending it flying towards a tree smashing.

The second one tried to take advantage of Inc's current position but failed miserably since Inc pushed himself into the air putting as much strength as he could in his right paw to get a bit higher in his jump, being able to go above the ghost, gripping his sword with both paws pointing downwards, landing on the ground while slashing him from the top to the bottom, a part of Martyr entering the ground also. The third didn't even have the time to react seeing that when it came towards Inc he extracted his sword using his "Blade of Honor" ability with a rising slash cutting it in half.

As for the forth Inc took the first move for once doing a dash so fast that the Bakemon couldn't even see him, only to find Inc behind him withthe sword already pierced through him.

At then end only one Bakemon remained who decided to retreat but Pikuna was already going to strike it high slash but Inc made it faster with "Martyr" thanks to his ability used earlier.

"Hey that was mine!", she said a bit angry.

"Sorry... I got carried away... Well that one makes the last for them... How many did you get?" Inc asked curious to know how she did, since he didn't have the time to look being always busy with his fight.

"Hmm... Well... I don't know... I got so enthusiastic in the fight that I forgot to count" she said laughing a little making Inc sigh.

"Seriously, you're the one who came up with the idea but you didn't keep count? So how are we suppose to settle this?"

Pikuna smiled when she heard his last question and when she got close to him she said: "Like this." giving him a passionate kiss that lasted for more than a minute, both of them enjoying the moment as much as they could.

"So, does this make up?" Pikuna said after she ended the kiss seeing that he was blushing, but it's normal since she took him off guard with her action.

"Hmm... Yeah... I guess" was the only thing he could say at the moment, but he actually wanted to say that it was one of the greatest things he felt in his life.

"You don't sound so convinced... If you want I will think of something when we get out of this place... How's that sound?" she said in a seductive tone to see his reaction.

"Hey! Don't get me wrong Piku... It's not like I didn't like it... It's just that you actually left me a bit without words is all... Actually... It was a feeling that I'm glad I shared with you." he said hugging her tight making Pikuna purr leaning in the embrace.

"I'm glad we think of it the same way... Although I chose quite the strange place for our first kiss now, didn't I?" she said giggling at the end.

"Nah... Who cares... As long as it is with you... Every place will do just fine." he replied, not knowing how much happiness this words brought her.

"The same goes for me Incy." she replied nuzzling him.

"You know? We should start going inside this place and see if we can find the two troublemakers. And maybe with some luck... A way to get out of this town wouldn't be half bad." Inc said hopping that a portal like the one that brought them here was inside that castle.

"Fine. But if there are other people inside this place we should help them. Who knows, maybe they were brought here as we were." she replied while sensing a lot of presences inside now that she was near the source.

Inc nodded to her and together they started to go up the staircase, noticing that the doors at the entrance were already open.

They both kept they're weapons ready since they found it quite suspicious. When they entered strangely they weren't attacked nor did anything happened.

The problem was that it was very dark, the moon being the only thing that illuminated the place through the windows.

Pikuna called a flame from her paws and controlling she made it flow near them to make some light.

"Not bad." Inc said to her.

"Why thank you." she replied looking at her surroundings.

The entrance hall of this place was quite something, usually only seen in movies.

It had two set of long stairs on the left and right said in a curved style,with paintings on the walls and two doors on each side of the room.

"I never thought I'd get the chance to visit the Adams family's house...So where do we start anyway?" Inc said jokingly looking at the similarities in some points.

Pikuna twitched her ears two times trying to sense which direction the presences are.

"One things for sure,they are on the left side...But I don't know if they're down here or upstairs...If we go look around I can feel if the they are closer and maybe find out where they actually are."

"Well, we start with the main floor since we are already here. Then if we don't find anything. We will go upstairs. At least we have a place to start." Inc replied while going to the first door on his left.

"Sounds good to me." she replied going towards him, the flame moving when she did.

When Inc opened the door, his jaw seemed like it was going to fall.

Noticing this Pikuna asked: "What's the matter Incy?"

"Look...for yourself." he said lamely pointing at the entrance.

"Huh?" she said going to look for herself and froze in place at what she saw.

A huge corridor that seemed to go on forever with a lot of doors on both side and further there was another corridor from the opposite direction connecting with this one.

"You have to be freaking kidding me!" she said angry.

"This is going to be harder than I thought." Inc said while started to walk slowly inside followed by Pikuna.

"Should we split up to searching inside the doors to make it faster?" Pikuna asked thinking that it was for the best.

"It's a good idea, but if something happens we let each other know so we can be there to help eachother out...Understand?" he replied.

"Ok. I'll yell so that my knight in shining armor will come to aid me." Pikuna said giggling taking the left side.

"I'm not joking Piku...This place might be more dangerous than it seems." he said looking seriously towards her.

"Yeah...I know...Was just trying to ease the moment a little...Sheesh!" she replied a bit annoyed going going through the first door.

"She sure doesn't take things seriously sometimes." Inc said while the same thing as her and called out a flame from his paw making it flow near him to see around moving on the right side and started looking around.

"Is it really necessary to stay attached to me every second?" Leo said annoyed at Celia, who was clenching on his costume looking very frightened.

"But I can't help it. This place is just spooky and no one being around here it's just making it worse." Celia replied still not letting go of him.

"If I knew that you could be this useless, I should have let you stay outside." Leo said sighing remembering the times she freaked out till now.

First flashback

"Well, here we are... took us a little to get here, huh?" Leo said starting to open the main entrance to the castle.

"Yeah." was the only thing she could say, cursing her suggestion to visit this place in the first place.

When they entered the main hall of the castle and looked at they're surroundings, Celia said while starting to go away.

"You know, I think I'll go check the backyard." only to be stopped by Leo who held her from her tail and said: "Hold it right there scaredy cat... You're not trying to chicken out on me now are you? You were the one that came up with the idea of coming to this place, didn't you?"

"Aye sir." she said lamely letting her head down, knowing that he would take her with him no matter what.

"But if you want to go out, be my guest." Leo replied smiling to her leaving Celia a bit amazed giving her this possibility.

"Really? You're the best Leo." she happily starting to head out again but stopped in her tracks frozen when Leo said "Sure, who knows? Maybe some ghosts or other monsters will be there too."

"You know, on second thought inside the castle isn't such a bad idea." she said laughing a little getting back near him seeing that he was smirking.

"Nice to hear. Now come on, let's start searching this place out."

"Sure." she replied not that enthusiastic like her tamer was.

"He's such a devil sometimes."

Second flashback

"Wow, a music room! This place has everything!" Leo said impressed while looking at the spacious room around them.

It had instruments of all kind inside, from violins, to flutes and even a grand piano near the tall window at the end of the room, the reason maybe to be near the light on daytime.

"I wonder what's the use of it in a place like this?" Celia said moving slowly around looking at the various instruments but she jumped and yelled in fright when Leo pressed a number of keyboards on the piano.

"Maybe ghosts have taste for music as well." Leo said laughing a little at her reaction.

"Would you please stop that? It's not even funny!" Celia replied frustrated on how he frightened her in every chance he got.

"I might actually start to get used to this" Leo thought to himself seeing how easily she can be scared.

Third flashback

Walking around they actually find the kitchen of this place and a big one at that like that of a restaurant.

"You know, this actually makes me kinda hungry. I haven't eaten all day." Leo said while looking around seeing how very equipped this kitchen was.

"Such a nice place but it's basically deserted. What a waste. Still strange how those ghosts aren't around here or maybe they are watching over us to take us when we are with our guard down?"

"How can he think of food at a time like this?" Celia thought hopping that she could be at least a little calm, like him.

When she opened a shelve out of curiosity a bat came out squeaking making her yell: "LEO!" running towards him and jumping over him.

"What the?!" he exclaimed before they fell down, with Celia on top of a very annoyed Leo who was tipping with all his right hand fingers on the ground.

"Umm, Leo? Are you angry?"she asked raising her head too like at him seeing him quite pissed. "WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?" he yelled making her jump in fright off of him.

"Jeez, grow up a little will ya? You're a Clerimon for crying out loud. Ghosts and such should be afraid of you not the other way around."

Present time

"At least you're useful in making some light to see around." he said looking at her wings who emitted an azure light.

"I didn't even know you could do that."

"Well, we Clerimon are light wielders, we can do pretty much everything with it." she said flapping them a little with pride.

"I see... The problem is that we hadn't found a thing in this place... I actually would have hopped we found someone or something by now. I guess maybe we should get out of here..." Leo said sighing.

When she heard him say going out of the castle, she would have hugged him to death from happiness. She preferred staying outside than this place any time.

"Hey, don't feel so down Leo, maybe there are other place in this town where we can search." she said assuring him.

"Yeah, maybe you're right. Come on, let's go." he replied going out of the room they were in followed by Celia.

"Yay! Finally!" she screamed in her mind but her happiness was cut short when both of them heard footsteps from the other corridor connected to the on they we're walking.

Both of them looked at each other, Leo pointing at her wings making Celia understand to stop her light coming out from them.

Moving silently to not make any noise they stopped where the two corridors connect to each other leaning towards the wall, hearing the footsteps getting closer, two of them by the sound of it.

Celia called out her swords and swallowed a bit trying to net let her fright ruin everything, she wasn't going to let Leo down like this.

Leo on the other hand took out his Digivice and four cards that would help depending on what the situation will be.

When they felt that the two were near, Celia mustered all her courage and running she went towards them with a battling yell doing a x slash with her swords but were parried by another sword and two paws stopped the other one with the palms.

When Leo heard the clash he turned also readying to use one of the cards but stopped when he saw who one of them was, saying in disbelief: "Fema?"

When the dragoness heard her name she looked towards him and had the same reaction: "Leo?"

Celia was left speechless when she saw who the other one was but smiled and said: "Fancy bumping into you here."

"Likewise." Dashi replied letting go of her sword seeing who it was.

When all of them noticed this they looked at each others partner and said in unison: "You know each other?"

The four of them passed the next half hour explaining how each other met at Gardaland and how they ended out here.

Even Fema and Dashi were brought here the same way Leo and Celia were and found each other later on in one of the streets of this town.

But the first to have disappeared were their tamers and have been searching for them all day at Gardaland and they suspect that they're here somewhere at this point.

"So, if you guys are here then it means that there has to be other people and Digimon brought here also. But I wonder where they are?" Leo said thinking at some possible explanation.

"They have to be here somewhere... We searched basically everywhere except this castle." Fema replied.

"The problem is that me and Leo searched a lot in this place and it's basically deserted." Celia said.

"We should look again in my opinion. I'm not saying that I don't believe you. But it's easy to have missed something around this place." Dashi replied trying to convince them.

"He has a point there. It could be possible." Leo said to Celia then looked at the other two.

"If you want we can come with you guys to help find your tamers."

"Huh?" Celia said looking at him not understanding his sudden decision.

"And why would you do that?" Fema asked him quite curious as well.

"Cause where there are more people, the force increases and when we find you're tamers looking together we'll have more possibilities to find a way out from this place. Simple as that. Plus I would feel like an asshole leaving without giving some help." he explained to them.

"Thanks. We appreciate it." Dashi replied thinking that what he said was true.

"Fine. Just as long as you don't slow me down." Fema said smiling towards Leo.

"The same goes to you." he replied smiling back.

"Celia, could you please make light with your wings again?"

Celia couldn't believe how close she was to getting out of this castle and now this happened.

"Sure." she replied lamely, her wings starting to illuminate again.

"Hey, don't make that face now. Once we get out of here, I'll make it up to you somehow. Ok?" Leo said patting caressing her gently on the head making her giggle.

"Fine... You better keep to that."

"I'm one that always keep his words." Leo said reassuring her.

"You know, I still can't believe that I'm seeing a tamer with a Clerimon as his Digimon. It just feels strange." Dashi said looking at the two.

"Yeah, I didn't even think it was possible... I hope that you guys didn't have much trouble because of this." Fema said remembering how Clerimon are hated from most of the people that know of them.

"Well, she became my Digimon not long ago. Two and a half months by now. I also have two other Digimon. My first one is Pikunamon that I met when I was only 7. And the second is Incendramon who I met five years later. They really resemble you two a lot." Leo explained to them.

"You have three Digimon?" both Fema and Dashi said in unison amazed

"Yup. Quite the lucky guy, isn't he?" Celia said giggling.

"Well, I wouldn't consider myself that lucky trying to put up with you and Pikuna all the time." Leo replied jokingly.

"You're lucky she isn't here to hear that." Celia said knowing that Pikuna would have already Leo at the run by now if she were here.

"Wow! I've heard of someone having two... But three? Where are they anyway?" Fema asked curiously

"Well, we don't know. They could still be at Gardaland. But I'm not taking out the possibility that they are here somewhere also. If Celia came here after me. Maybe they did too." Leo replied hopping that they were doing okay.

"Ok, so where do we start?" Dashi asked them seeing that they knew this place better than them.

"I think that anyplace will do. What do you say Leo?" Celia asked looking at him seeing that he was looking at the left wall very concentrated.

"Hey Celia, look at this wall and tell me what you see."

She looked at him a bit weird not understanding the question but complied and looked at it.

It didn't seem to have something different than the others.

A few paintings on the wall with the same design.

"It doesn't seem that different to me. It's like every wall in every corridor we past through with doors to other rooms."

"That's exactly it! Look at your right now." he said pointing to the other wall, both her, Fema and Dashi looking trying to understand his point.

Looking attentively she noticed that on the right wall there was an extra door while on the left wall there wasn't.

"Ok, so this one hasn't got a door because the room is bigger...So?"

"Well, technically you would think that it the main reason... But..." Leo said while going to the first door opening it and went inside followed by the others.

It was a normal bedroom but something caught his eye and Leo was happy that his deduction was correct: "The room doesn't go till the end of the wall of the corridor."

"And what does this have to do with anything?" Fema asked him wanting an explanation already.

"A passage." Dashi replied simply getting what Leo was trying to say.

"Glad someone got the hint." Leo replied grinning.

"You aren't serious Leo? A passage? That things happens only in movies." Celia replied giggling a little at his theory, finding it a little to exaggerated.

"Well, do you have a better idea Einstein?" Leo asked her annoyed seeing her laughing at his idea.

"I think it's worth a try... But still the thing is finding a way to open it." Dashi pointed out.

"Why take the trouble when we can just make a way through it." Fema replied smiling to him summoning one sword in her right paw and bringing it forward with the tip pointed at the wall, a light circle with some runes written into it and yelled: "Magic Blazing Circle!!!" and from it many fireballs emitted like darts towards it with force.

"Wow!" the other two exclaimed impressed by it, the first time they saw anything like it till know.

As soon as the attacked she looked on disbelief when the wall remained attacked like nothing happened.

"But how?" Fema asked speechless.

"Well that did the trick." Dashi said teasing her while Leo and Celia laughed a little seeing her look at him angry and embarrassed.

"Well I don't see you doing something to help."

"Ok, ok, no need to get so upset." he replied going near where she was and clenching his right fist he gave it a punch that made the room tremble leaving a speechless Leo and Celia looking at him froze in place, Fema laughing a little at they're reaction.

"Don't worry... After a while you get used to it."

"Talk about a Falcon Punch." Leo said amazed at the force he used in that strike.

"Forget about that, how's that the wall is still in one piece?" Celia replied expecting to have seen just see shivering.

Dashi noticed that he made a small fissure in the wall but after a few seconds it regenerated, like it wasn't even there.

"Hey you two, what's on the next floor above this room?" Dashi asked looking at them.

"Hmm, Let's see..." Leo said followed by Celia.

"I think it was..." then they both looked at him and said in unison: "The music room!"

"They have such a thing here?" Fema asked a bit surprised at this.

"Yeah, it kinda surprised us too. But it's not so fun when someone uses it to scare you." Celia mentioned looking at Leo who turned and whistled innocently.

"Then we'll go up there and have a look. This wall hasn't got any soft spots or anything that can open a path. It seems like it has some sort of barrier or something. But there is a chance that the entrance is from above." Dashi explained.

"This place is just getting weirder and weirder. First ghosts, then a castle and now a magic wall. At least we know that this is a Digimon's work. But strange how they never attacked us inside this place." Leo replied thinking as to why.

"Why is it that we are always attacked in every place we go?" Pikuna yelled in annoyance killing two Bakemon that came towards her using her scythe and delivering a hammer like blow while Inc slashed four of them in one blow with a katana like move being so fast that the Bakemon started to be halved after a few seconds,Inc in the meantime passing by them like everything was normal.

"Well, it's a haunted castle. What do you expect?"

"Yeah, but still not even a few minutes pass and more appear." Pikuna replied looking a bit tired.

"I do agree there are a lot of them where we are now. Maybe because we are more near to the presences you feel." Inc said getting near her placing a paw on her shoulder.

"Do you want to take a break?"

"I'm okay. Thanks Incy. Plus the sooner we find them and get out of here the better." Pikuna replied placing her right paw on his.

"Well, if you say so. Man, this place could hold up a small town of people on seeing how many rooms are here. It must have taken a while to build." Inc replied seeing how many rooms they checked this far.

"Not that useful seeing it full of Ghost Digimon everywhere. Anyway, we are kind of close Incy. Actually very close." Pikuna said going towards the last door of the corridor and opening it finding it enters to a big library full of book shelves everywhere and in the end of the room there was a fireplace with two sofas.

"Why of course. What haunted castle would be without a old library big as a soccer field." Inc said going inside, seeing spider webs and dust everywhere.

"Not visited in a while either. Looks older than the other rooms too."

"But it's strange, it's like they're here next to me. But it's not connected with another room so. What gives?" Pikuna replied really confuses.

"Maybe they're on a different floor?" Inc suggested not taking out the possibility but Pikuna shook her head.

"I would have figured out by now if it were in a different location. But here is where I can feel them the most."

"Well, let's take a look around then, it's the only thing we can do in this place anyway." Inc replied starting to actually get annoyed by this castle with every second passing.

Both of them went looking around walking between shelves but they couldn't find a single clue.

It just seemed like any normal library.

When they arrived at the end of the room near the fire place Inc stopped for a second taking a break while Pikuna was between the shelves in front of it still looking around.

"This is getting us nowhere, you know?" Inc said seeing her still looking around.

"Maybe, but still, it's better than sitting ducks." Pikuna replied not looking at him.

Inc could only sigh. "Are you sure maybe they aren't on another floor like I suggested earlier?" Inc asked while he placed a paw at the top of the fire place to lean on it for a second but when he touched it, he felt like he pressed a button and in a second a part of the floor where he was standing and the part of the wall of the fireplace turned to the other side, the other part also having the same fireplace and design.

"I think I know how to use my powers thank-you?" Pikuna replied a bit angered by his comment but finished her phrase slowly and surprised when she noticed that Inc wasn't there anymore.

"Incy?"

She went towards the fireplace where he was and looked towards left and right still not seeing him.

But something got her ear.

She could hear a "chling" sound very lightly coming from the other part the wall.

"But how?" she thought seeing that there was no entrance to the other side.

She started to lean her back on the fire place in thought trying to figure out what to do but as soon as she leaned on it it turned again just like with Inc finding herself in front of Inc fighting six Bakemon and two other ones she hadn't seen yet.

They where the same size as the ghosts but very differently looking.

They had a red torn cape with they're hood on, the only thing visible where their blue eyes.

They were wearing a gray robe and in one hand they held a golden color scythe and in another they held a chain.

"What the?" she exclaimed looking back at the wall trying to understand what happened.

"Glad you could join us." Inc said smiling towards her while blocking the small scythes of the two cloaked Digimon.

"A little help is never unwelcome."

"Coming right up. I gave up on trying to understand the logic of this place anyway." Pikuna replied with a shake of her shoulders then summoning Amaterasu, she jumped attacking them but they dodged floating away from Inc.

"Those two are stronger than they look. Be careful while engaging them" Inc said seeing how he couldn't land a strike on them till know.

"Thirst things first then. We take care of the peons and concentrate on them later." Pikuna replied looking at the Bakemon who where around them.

"Good point. Funny how they always attack surrounding us." Inc said noticing that they did it this time to.

"Not complaining here. This way we can attack them from any angle." Pikuna replied going towards the left side attacking the first one by jumping above him launching her scythe who slimmed in the process and made a direct hit.

As for the other two while she was still in the air she created flaming arrows around her and launched them not giving the Bakemon a chance to escape it.

"Man, I'm good!" she said cheerfully when she landed.

Inc finished the remaining ones like a true pro.

Going towards the first one, he blocked it's attack with his sword and immediately slipped by it doing a kendo slash that eliminated him on the spot.

For the second one he did a small slide and once he was under the enemy he did a rising jump slash hitting it in full while the remaining ghost flew towards him he quickly opened his paw towards him saying: "Nice knowing ya! Luminous Helix!" launching a helix of burning light leaving nothing in it's path.

"So, who wants to be next?" Pikuna asked pointing Amaterasu towards the two cloaked Digimon while Inc used his "Blade of Honor" ability on Martyr, knowing that it will be necessary to use more brutal force with these two.

The cloaked Digimon split up to engage them in battle.

When Pikuna and the Digimon's scythe connected with one another sparkles emitted in the collision.

"These guy sure have strength alright."

Inc was doing a little better on his side but even with his sword powered up his foe still could defend every blow he gave at him although the dragon could sense that it was parrying with difficulty because of the strength he put in his attacks and it was just a matter of time till it would be unable to parry anymore because of the fatigue.

The fight went one a while with no one having a striking lead, all of them attacking and defending each other.

Inc finally made his move when he sensed that his enemy wouldn't last much longer, he gave the strongest thrust he could making the Digimon's scythe fly away from it's hands, and turning around changing his grip on Martyr in a revers grip holding it with both paws he thrust it backwards directly in to the enemy, ending him instantly.

"Always wanted to do that." Inc said seeing his attack had been a great success.

At one point the Digimon made a special attack of his that made a strong slash towards her head with it's scythe that Pikuna barely dodged crouching, the attack was so powerful that it lead aburst of wind that went towards a wall leaving a large gash on it.

"Two can play at that game buddy." Pikuna said a bit angered, the blade of her scythe started to be engulfed in flames and continued saying: "Let me show you how it's done." doing a move similar to his giving a blow that when he tried to parry it, his scythe was destroyed by the impact and he was engulfed by the flames of Amaterasu leaving nothing but dust.

"And that's the end of the lesson. Finally. They sure where annoying ones." Pikuna said making Amaterasu disappear.

"To me about it. Seems like they were trying to keep us from going forward." Inc replied calling off his weapon as well.

"This place seems like some sort of tunnel by the looks of it." Pikuna said taking interest surroundings, the only thing in front of he was a direct path going forward.

"Sure does seems so. At least we didn't come in that library for nothing. I wonder if there were other places that had hidden paths that we missed." he replied not taking out the possibility at this point.

"Who cares about that." she said twitching her ears and continued: "Cause we are on the right track. What were you saying about staying in there being pointless?" smirking at him.

"Fine. So I was wrong for once. But if it weren't for me we wouldn't have even found this place anyway. So kudos to both of us then." Inc said smiling towards her.

"I guess you can take credit for that. Even though you just found it accidentally." she replied smiling back teasing him.

"Details, details." Inc said while starting to walk away towards the path followed by Pikuna yelling: "Hey, wait up!"

"I wonder where this lead." Inc said curiously.

"I haven't got the slightest clue. The only thing I know is that I never walked and fought so much in a single day in all my life. The last one was especially intense. It will be a miracle if tomorrow I will be able to move." Pikuna replied sighing.

"We also lost our day of fun, too. We sure are unlucky these days since Leo awakened his power. It's like he's a danger magnet." he said not in an offensive way.

"I don't think this has something to do with the Clerimon for once." Pikuna replied.

"True. We haven't seen one around here and this isn't quite they're style of doing things. But surely someone is pulling the strings here. And we will soon find out." Inc said noticing that forward at some point the path had continuous stairs that went down in a circular pattern by the looks of it.

"Going down it seems." she said also noticing it.

"Yeah." Inc said and then they both looked at each other and said in unison: "How original!"

"You know, I wouldn't be surprised if we find at the end a ghost boss who is doing all this so that they can posses your body and live again" Pikuna said giggling thinking of the possibilities.

"Where do you even read this stuff?" Inc asked looking a bit weird at her.

"It's a story me and Leo were told when we were little kids. They say that on Halloween is the only chance they get to possess ones body and live again while using it as a new host." Pikuna said summing up for him the most important things of the tale.

"Who even believes in stuff like that? It's obvious that these so called ghosts we've been fighting were Digimon." he replied not believing in ghost stories at all.

The path was pretty long and they were amazed at how they make it go this far underground. When they arrived at the end they were surprised where they ended.

They found themselves in a huge circular altar by the looks of it, the Arena from Verona being a joke against this as how big and spacious it was.

What caught their eye was what they saw in the air.

It seemed like a big ovular field that had trapped inside a lot of people and Digimon that seemed they were asleep and down below it there was a figure with it's arms opened saying something that they couldn't understand.

Both Pikuna and Inc knew that was their target and with weapon already in their paws they started running towards him and when they were in reach they both jumped trying to attack him head on but they were stopped by chains that came out of nowhere who wrapped around them and pushed both down landing hard.

They noticed that the chains belonged to the same Digimon they fought before, only this time there were eight of them keeping them in place, both not not able to move.

The person in front of him stopped talking and let his hands down and then said in the normal language "I'm amazed you made it this far."

Then he turned to look at them, both of them seeing what they're enemy looked like.

He was wearing a long red black cape, a blue elegant jacket with pants of the same color, black boots with a skull pattern on them and bold hair with a red mask with bat wings design on each end that covered only the upper part of his face.

"You've been killing a lot of my minions since you got here and I am curious as to how you're not there with the rest of them?" he said kneeling down placing his hand under Pikuna's chin forcing her to look towards him while she growled in defiance.

"Don't you dare touch her!" Inc said angry trying to brake free but the Digimon held him in place.

"I don't think you are in position to tell me what to do now are you? No matter on how you escaped, I will dispose of you anyway. And then I will finally finish my ritual and thanks to thess subjects we managed to capture we will be able to live again." he replied laughing a little, clapping his fingers making other Bakemon appear everywhere.

"Told ya!" Pikuna said looking towards Inc.

"Oh, be for real! Again with this posses thing bullshit? That's not scientifically possible." Inc replied amazed that Pikuna was actually right when she said that this was they're plan.

"I think I should make you stay silent. For eternity." Myotismon replied making a gesture with his hand signaling many Bakemon towards Inc ready to attack.

"Damn it! I can't get loose of these chains." Pikuna thought struggling to get free and help Inc but to no avail, the only thing she could do is watch.

"This is quite the pinch. Come on Inc! Think of something!" Inc thought to himself seeing that he will be put out of his misery in a few seconds if he didn't do something.

Just as when it all seemed over, some yells could be heard coming from above, that made Inc, Pikuna, Myotismon an the other Digimon look up trying to see what it was.

On top of the altars roof there was a circular hole and from it came out four people which Pikuna and Inc recognized two of them.

"I'm coming you three." Celia said trying to catch them.

"Don't worry about us."

"Get Leo!" Fema and Dashi replied, starting to gain speed in they're falling.

Celia managed to catch Leo between her arms and said nuzzling him: "Gotcha!"

"Why it's the least you could do seeing that it's your fault a fell flew that tunnel in the first place." Leo replied a bit annoyed.

"You should be thanking me though. Looks who's down." Celia said noticing Inc and Pikuna.

When Fema was near the ground she summoned her swords and landed gently with a flip seeming that she didn't fall at all.

Looking towards Pikuna and Inc she noticed who he was in a flash.

"I kinda expected it to be you when Leo said I resembled someone."

Dashi on the other landed with a punch that made a small earthquake making Myotismon, and the other Digimon lose balance, Fema taking to opportunity to make her move.

"Dance of the Hornet!!!" she yelled said starting to cut all the chains like they were butter with a very elegant movement that made her seem like she was dancing.

"Why you!" Myotismon yelled while bats were appearing around him and was starting to do an attack but stopped when he heard someone yelling: "Heavens Edict!!!" and light beam was sent towards him but he dodged at the last second.

"I was so close!" Celia said landing near Inc, Pikuna and the others.

The strange thing was that all the ghosts backed up from everyone.

"Myotismon, Ultimate Digimon, virus type. His main attacks are "Night raid" and "Bloody Stream". This is going to be a tough one. I've heard of him, but I never thought we'll get the chance in meeting one." Leo thought while looking at his Digivice.

"Leo, Celia! I'm happy to see you guys are ok!" Pikuna said cheerfully getting up in a flash and jumped at both of them hugging them tight.

"I'm happy to see you too!" Celia said laughing a little.

"I kinda knew you guys were here too. I'm glad nothing bad happened to you." Leo replied petting her gently on the head.

"Nice timing you guys had. How did you manage to get through up there anyway?" Inc said smiling towards Leo.

"I'll tell you later on." Leo replied

"Guys, I know the reunion is touching and everything. but this isn't quite the right moment." Dashi interrupted them.

"You insolent fools, what are you standing there doing nothing for? Attack them!" Myotismon yelled at all the Digimon that were around them who seemed to obey but they seemed frightened by something. When they started to go towards the group everyone starts to take their battle stance but when Celia summoned her swords again the ghosts stopped in place, Leo noticing this looked towards Celia for a second and grinned, finally and found why they were never attacked in the castle.

"Why did they stop?" Fema asked curious seeing this.

"Don't let your guard down. It could be another trap." Inc replied.

"I swear the next time you don't listen to my command, I'll eradicate all of you!" Myotismon yelled getting angrier with each passing second, making the ghosts attack them again and when they were almost there, Leo went towards Pikuna and Inc and grabbed them from their paw taking them by surprise and dragged them running towards the hoard of ghosts saying to them: "Jump over them!"

"But for what?" both of them asked in confusion.

"Just do it!" he yelled.

Both Pikuna an Inc looked at each other for a second and they both nodded knowing that Leo must have some idea.

They both jumped high in unison, taking Leo with them also passing above the other ghosts.

When Leo saw that they had a good distance he yelled: "Now, Celia!"

"Sure thing!" she exclaimed bringing her sword up and from it various light streams came out going surrounding the portion of field where all the ghosts were making them unable to escape.

Then her wings started to emit a very strong light that both Dashi and Fema had to cover their eyes from the intensity.

The ghosts trying to escape but where blocked by her barrier.

"Now's our chance to get them!" Celia said to the other two who opened their eyes seeing the various Digimon going around in panic.

"I don't get how you came up with this. But you'll explain it to me later." Fema said seeing that they managed to turn the tables in a few seconds.

Dashi on the other hand didn't say a thing, understanding quite fully what the idea was.

Looking towards Leo who landed near Myotismon with Inc and Pikuna he thought to himself: "You're smarter than you look. Not a bad strategy. But I understand Celia being a holly Digimon that can manipulate light. But how did he know that Fema can use light too?"

"Light is they're major weakness. They become basically harmless in the face of it." Celia explained to Fema what the idea was.

"Light you say huh? Well, in that case. I have an idea. Although it will take me some time to do it" Fema said coming up with an idea of her own.

"Ok, in the meantime I'll go and fight as many as I can. Then will help Leo and the others if they need it." Celia said getting in front of her, getting ready to get into the brawl.

"I know what you're trying to do. You know you don't know how to use that ability very well. And you know what happened last time." Dashi said to her trying to make her reconsider.

"You're so sweat when you act so worried. But you don't have to. I think I can use it by now." Fema replied smiling big at him, knowing him better than anyone.

He tends to act a bit more serious, but he is a very friendly person and cares for his friends a lot, especially towards her.

"Fine, don't say I didn't worn you. I'll stay near you just in case they try to attack you in the process." Dashi replied shaking his head at how stubborn she could be at times.

He looked how many enemies there were around them, it seemed as they were uncountable.

"Even if Celia is their weak point this won't be easy, plus Fema will need some time to do her attack." he thought getting ready for the battle also cracking his knuckles a little.

"Here I come!" Celia yelled cheerfully going towards them attacking them head one slashing as many as she could through the process.

"And off she goes." Dashi said seeing how Celia was killing them one after anotherwhile punching a Bakemon sending him flying towards other ones knocking all of them out.

Fema in the meantime was doing graceful movements just like when she fought earlier, a small circle appeared above her slowly becoming bigger with each movement.

Celia wasn't even giving her all in this fight, the Digimon where more concerned of escaping her than fighting her, but Dashi wasn't that lucky, seeing that he was continuously attacked, but he always managed to beat them all out.

Celia also noticed how sometimes she saw enemies flying around when Dashi punched some of them away and she had to giggle cause it reminded her of some of those fighting movies.

At one point one of the ghosts launched it's chain over him and smirking he caught it and pulled so hard that the Digimon came flying towards him giving him a forward thrusting kick hitting away an enemy Celia was going to attack, seeing it disappear before her eyes in surprise.

Looking towards him she yelled: "Hey, watch where you're aiming these things! You could have hit me!"

"Sorry, my bad!" Dashi replied while grabbing other two chains that came from his sides.

"You guys don't learn, do you?" he said jumping with both of them and out powering them he slammed them towards other Bakemon and started swinging them around taking out at least 50 of them this way, then he threw them away.

"That ought to do it. And just in time." he said seeing that Fema was ready to go with her attack, a giant white magic circle standing above her.

"Celia, get out of the way!" Fema yelled to her so that she didn't get hit also.

"Don't worry! Just shoot it, I'll be fine!" Celia responded cheerfully.

"Are you mad? This isn't the time to fool around!" Dashi said trying to convince her. "I said I will be ok. Trust me. I know what I'm doing." Celia replied to them, Dashi looking towards Fema a bit in concern.

Fema also was not sure if to do it or not, but she already made her attack and couldn't held it back.

"Fine then. I hope you know what you're doing Celia! Here goes, LIGHT ENIGMA INFINITY!!!" Fema said deciding to unleash her attack bringing one sword up, praying it wouldn't hurt her.

From the Circle a lot of beams of light emitted from it, like an endless rain hitting every ghost in sight. Celia brought up both paws and with her hands glowing she absorbed everyone it came towards her.

"So much power. And she is only a champion Level." she thought.

When the attacked finished Fema was starting to fall but Dashi intervened quickly and grabbed her, seeing her panting heavily.

"I told you you shouldn't have done it. Listening to me once in a while wouldn't hurt, you know?"

"Well, you know... me...I'm stubborn... at times." she replied between pants, nuzzling him at the end.

The problem was that not all the Digimon were eliminated by Fema's attack and where ready starting to go towards them to attack at an incredible speed.

Celia appeared in front of them that neither Dashi or Fema could see her speed and looking back at Fema she said smiling: "Such an awesome attack. Can I try it too?"

"Huh?!" both Fema and Dashi said confused at what she said.

Celia brought up her sword just like Fema did and said at the Digimon cheerfully: "Ok! Who's up for another round now?" while a giant circle appeared in a second above her then she yelled: "HOLLY ENIGMA INFINITY!!!" doing the same attack as Fema taking out all the remaining ghost leaving the place empty with no one in sight.

"Wow. This thing takes a lot out of you. No wonder you look so tired." Celia said panting a little also looking at Fema smiling, seeing that they were looking at her in disbelief. "How did you do that?" Fema asked her still not believing what she saw.

"Using your attack you mean? Well, long story short, I'm a copycat. I can copy every attack thrown at me transforming it though into a light element. With yours it didn't change cause it was light to begin with." Celia explained to her.

"A Digimon that can copy every attack? But I never heard that Clerimon can do that. She can basically become the strongest thing in this world if she wanted to. I never thought that someone like her can be this strong. It's true when they say don't judge a book by it's cover." Dashi thought really impressed by her abilities.

"You're really something, I'll give you that."

"Nah, not that much really. It takes a lot of stamina to use this ability. Plus I can only use the move for a short period. It's not like I'm unstoppable." she replied.

"Well, at least we finished them all off. Good riden-" Fema said but stopped when she heard the sound of a sword piercing flesh, a grown of pain, and Pikuna yelling: "INCYYYYY!!!"

When they both turned to look at where the sound came from, all of them looked up in horror: "No way." Celia said looking at the scene before her.

Flashback

"You insolent fools, what are you standing there doing nothing? Attack them!" Myotismon yelled at all the Digimon that were around them who seemed to obey but they seemed frightened by something. When they started to go towards the group everyone starts to take they're battle stance but when Celia summoned her swords again the ghosts stopped in place, Leo noticing this looking towards Celia for a second and grinned, finally founding out why they were never attacked in the castle.

"Hey Celia." Leo said as low toned as he could so that only her could hear him and he was in luck when he saw that she turned to look at him quickly.

"Listen to me, the ghosts are afraid of light and you're the best light user Digimon that exists. And Fema is one also, cause I scanned her with my Digivice thelast time. I'll take Pikuna and Inc and go after Myotismon and then I want you to create a barrier and not let a single ghost get away. Take down as many as you can." he explained speaking as fast as he could.

"But don't you think it's mean to keep Fema and Dashi trapped here too without their consent?" Celia asked him.

"Yeah I know, but they're really strong and could help you a lot. I'll take the blame of something bad happens ok? You need to trust me on this one." Leo replied.

"Fine, I trust you." Celia said smiling.

When the Digimon got near and started to attack Leo made his move and went towards Pikuna and Inc and grabbed them from their paw taking them by surprise and dragged them running towards the hoard of ghosts saying to them: "Jump over them!"

"But for what?" both of them asked in confusion.

"Just do it!" he yelled.

Both Pikuna an Inc looked at each other for a second and they both nodded knowing that Leo must have some idea.

They both jumped high in unison taking Leo with them also, passing above the other ghosts.

When Leo saw that they had a good distance he yelled: "Now, Celia!"

"Sure thing!" she exclaimed bringing her sword up and from it various light streams came out going surrounding the portion of field where all the ghosts where, making them unable to escape.

They landed away from them near their main enemy who looked quite angry at the situation was before him: "I'll teach you to stay in your place!" Myotismon yelled at them while bats started to surround him and launching like a wave he yelled: "Night Wave!!!"

Leo reacted immediately taking out his Digivice and a card and swiping it he said: "War Greymon's shield, Pikunamon, DIGIMODIFIY!"

"Got it." Pikuna said getting in front of Leo and Inc, a giant shield appearing in front of her with orange and yellow patterns with the crest of courage symbol imprinted on it, taking it and placing it in front of her, who blocked the attack easily.

"Not bad." Inc said to Leo when the attack deceased and started running with sword in hand towards the vampire Digimon ready to strike him.

Myotismon grinned and said: "How careless."

A stream of blood appearing in his hand and launched it like a whip saying: "Bloody Stream!!!" attaching to Inc's sword making him lose is grip on it taking it away from him.

Seeing him vulnerable Myotismon tried a direct punch towards him yelling: "Blood Punch!!!"

Inc at that moment brought his arms in a x position blocking it, the hit being quite strong he had to admit, but at least what he had in plan worked.

In the moment he blocked, placing a paw on his right shoulder, Pikuna jumped above with scythe ready to strike Myotismon.

"What?!" Myotismon exclaimed not expecting this and escaped at the last second with a dash backwards.

"Oh, no you don't. ABSOLUTE ZERO PUNCH!!!" Pikuna said punching with her left paw the ground

making a stream of Ice on the ground towards Myotismon freezing his feet immobilizing him.

"But how?" he asked not understanding how she was able to do an ice attack, only to hear Leo say "Ahem." moving a Yukidarumon card right and left taunting him.

"Ice isn't my usual style, but oh well." Pikuna said going towards Myotismon followed taking the chance of not be able to move.

"Hmm, nice attempt!" he replied to her launching bringing his hands forward launching a black ghost-like entity towards her and as soon as it made contact, she was blocked on the spot.

"Can't... move.." Pikuna said not able to move a muscle.Meanwhile Myotismon managed to break ice that kept him in place moving towards her with Inc's sword in hand.

"You're not the only one who has a trick or two up they're sleeves, this is goodbye I'm afraid." he said preparing to stab her, the only thing she could do is close her eyes and wait for the strike but it never came, hearing the sword piercing someone else with a grown of pain.

Opening her eyes she couldn't believe what she saw before her and hoped it wasn't true what was in front of her.

Inc stood in front of her with his sword stabbed through his abdomen, blood coming out from his wound.

"INCYYYYY!!!" Pikuna yelled in agony and tears started to pour from her eyes seeing the person she cared most dying before her eyes.

Leo at that moment dropped his Digivice and dropped on his knees, not ever expecting something like this to happen.

"No way." Celia said looking at the scene: "There is now way this is happening."

"Hmph., giving your live for someone is the most idiotic thing I have ever seen. What a waste." he said grabbing Inc and launching him away, not making an even single moment, lying down without a word.

"You don't need to cry. Cause you'll join him soon enough." Myotismon preparing to strike Pikuna also, she was not even bothering to do a thing in that moment because of the shock.

Leo, Celia, Fema and Dashi, made a run for it towards him, trying to prevent his attack, but neither them could make it in time.

"I SAID EARLIER!" someone said stopping everyone in their tracks and Myotismon from attacking looking towards the source seeing Inc getting up very slowly: "DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER!!!" he continued saying taking the sword out of his abdomen and made a dash so fast he was but a blur striking Myotismon away from Pikuna.

Pikuna at that moment felt the greatest happiness in her life seeing him still in one piece.

"Incy, you're ok! I thought I lost you!" Pikuna said happily hugging him as tight as she could.

"Lost me? Oh come on Piku. It takes more than that to take me down." Inc replied wiping away her tears gently.

Leo felt his heart beat again when he saw Inc get up, giving a sigh of relief: If something like that would have really happened to him I don't know what would I do. It's all my fault I let something like this happen in the first place. I knew to be more careful and react better to help them."

"Hell yeah! I knew Inc wouldn't give up that easily." Celia exclaimed.

"To get up from something like that." Dashi said really impressed by his determination.

"He is a Cendra, after all." Fema said in a low voice smiling while looking towards Inc.

"You! You've really done it this time. I'll make sure I to send you to oblivion!" Myotismon yelled getting up launching another attack towards him, Inc pushing Pikuna away and around him a black and white aura appeared blocking the attack like it was nothing.

"Sorry, I don't plan to go there very soon." Inc replied to him.

In that moment a card of light appeared floating down in Leo's hand, catching it he looked at it for a second curiously and then smiled.

"Hey Inc, how about some payback?"

"I couldn't ask for more." Inc said replied looking towards him.

"That's what I wanted to hear." Leo said grabbing his Digivice, while in his hand a black and white energy appeared just like what happened with Pikuna that time, only that he didn't feel pain, but he actually felt Inc's determination.

"Here goes. Digisoul charge!" he said making all the energy enter the Digivice and then swiped the card and continued saying: "Twilight mode! Incendramon, DIGIMODIFY!".

When Leo finished, Inc started to glow, his armor started to appear replacing his Halloween costume, only that it had the white an black color instead of its yellow and orange one.

From his back two beautiful pair of angelic wings came out,his left one being black while the other one was white.

In his left paw a sword appeared when he said: "Uriel" The hilt was of a red color and the upper part of the hilt had two white wing-like designs.

In his right paw another sword appeared when he said: "Azrael" it was similar to the other one only that it had a blue color at his hilt and demon-like wings at the top of the hilt.

When his red scarf appeared swishing a little he said: "Incendramon, Twilight Mode!" the light around him dissipating, everyone looking at him in awe.

"You look so cool Incy!" Pikuna said looking at him from the top to the bottom.

"Thanks." Inc replied smiling at her.

"You always make yourself look bad-ass." Leo said really liking how his new form looks.

"Do you really think that changing your appearance will help you?" Myotismon replied flying followed by Inc who did the same thing.

"Try and see for yourself."

"Let's give him a hand, too." Fema said starting to move but Dashi held her in place saying: "We better not. Look." he said making her look at Celia, Leo and Pikuna who stood motionless looking at the battle.

"This is Inc's fight... And his alone."

"Fine. I got it. But if something happens, I'll act, whether it be his fight or not." she replied.

"Sounds good." Dashi replied looking at the fight with interest.

"Get ready!" Inc said flying towards him ready to slash at him with Azrael with incredible speed, Myotismon barely being able to dodge.

He tried to use his whip seeing that he had a chance but Inc cut it with Uriel like it was nothing.

Azrael was starting to take a darker color, a dark energy starting to engulf it.

When it was finished charging he shoot the rage at him saying: "Perdition trigger!!!"

Myotismon brought his cape reflecting it, but Inc was waiting for that and went towards him with Uriel ready to give the finishing blow, but was surprised when Myotismon grabbed the blade to the point of cutting himself with his hand with the other he grabbed Inc from the neck strangling him.

"I told you. You're too careless."

"That's it I'm going to help him." Fema said when she saw the situation Inc was in.

"Damn it. I can't lose to him again" Inc thought never expecting his foe to be this strong.

Fema was just going to jump after them but stopped when she noticed something.

At a certain point Myotismon felt an incredible surge of pain, agonizing at that, like he was hit by something.

His grip on Inc's neck loosened and not bothering to think on what was happening, he charged up Uriel with as much light energy as he could and he yelled: "Redemption Trigger!" stabbing directly through Myotismon's heart, flying both of them towards the ground, smashing him with full force, cracking the floor around them.

"Impossible, how can this be?" Myotismon yelled starting to disappear little by little.

"Your self confidence and superiority led you to your defeat." Inc replied to him.

"You will pay for this. We undead can't die a second time, we will meet again." were the last words that Myotismon said before disappearing completely.

"I'll be waiting." Inc replied.

"What in the world happened back there?" Leo thought finding it a bit strange, noticing that Fema was also in thought at this.

When the vampire was defeated a light started to emit from the container that held the others all of them covering their eyes because of the intensity.

"Hey, captain look!" they heard a person yell opening their eyes to see who it was.

To their surprise they found themselves in the plaza of Gardaland where they were before they disappeared, only that it was empty, with people staying all around looking at them from blockades around it so no people entered .

Behind them all the people and Digimon that where captured where lying on the ground and some of them where starting to get up slowly.

"But how did we?" Leo asked looking not getting what was going one.

"Well, well. I knew you guys had to do something with this, too" Sebastian replied entering the plaza with Ignis followed by Francesca and Bastet also.

"Dad, Mom! What are you guys doing here?" Leo asked seeing them coming towards him and the others.

"That's what I like you to explain to us." Francesca replied to him hugging him tight.

"I thought something happened to you guys when neither one of you answered the phone."

"The thing is some cases of disappearances continued coming in today and it seemed it always happened in this place." Ignis explained to them.

"But looking around here we couldn't find a thing, but for safety measures we made everyone evacuate this area. Then after a while you guys appeared out of nowhere." Bastet continued.

"So, what happened?" all four of them asked looking at all of them curiously.

Leo sighed when he heard that question: "Long or short version?"

"Long!" they all replied.

"Why do I even bother?" Leo asked making all of them laugh a little.

"Tough luck again, huh bro?" Pikuna asked teasing him.

"Oh, I wouldn't be so happy if I were you...you have to explain what happened too before we met, you know? So come on sis." Leo replied to her grinning taking her by her paw dragging her.

"Hey wait a second, I never said I agreed to this!" Pikuna replied trying to fight him.

"So, let's go somewhere, shall we?" Leo asked looking at his parents who nodded smiling.

"Hey Inc, Celia! Can you give us a hand with the people that were kidnapped?" Ignis said going towards him with Bastet by his side.

"Sure thing." Inc and Celia replied to them.

The next hour both Pikuna and Leo explained everything they did and everything they've been through, explaining as accurately as they could.

Sebastian and Francesca listened carefully to all they said.

They went in the western bar of Gardaland to talk about it while they had a drink.

"And in the end when Inc killed him and this light came out and we found ourselves here at the end." Pikuna finished explaining the story.

"Wow! You sure have been through a lot I'd say." Sebastian said really impressed on how they managed to come out of their situation.

"But there is something that I don't get. How come all of you weren't with the others and somewhere outside this ghost city?" Francesca asked a bit curious at this.

Both Pikuna and Leo looked at each other for a second, not having an answer for this.

"Beats me!" both replied at the same time.

"Unless." Leo thought a second at it again remembering what Celia said: "Well, actually while I was flying I saw someone running." and then he remembered the fight with Inc and Myotismon "I wonder."

"Do you have any clue what that place was?" Pikuna asked them.

"My guess is it was a different dimension. Not the real world, but not the Digital world either." Sebastian replied thinking that it's the only logical thing it could have been.

"Something like this actually exists?" Leo asked amazed at this, not hearing of this even once. "Well, yes only they're very rare cases have been seen till now." Francesca replied to him.

"And we had the luck to run into a ghost dimension." Pikuna said.

"Well, it could have been worse. Actually, I had some fun now and then." Leo said smirking.

"How so?" she asked curiously.

"Ill show you." Leo replied to her getting up.

"Well, we told you everything that happened, I guess I'll go see how Inc and Celia are doing and give them a hand if they still need it."

"That's nice of you." Francesca said smiling at him.

"You coming to?" Leo asked Pikuna.

"Sure!" Pikuna replied cheerfully getting up also.

"So, what are you guys going to do now?" Leo asked curiously his parents.

"We'll go to headquarters and report in I guess. If you find Ignis and Bastet, can you tell them we're there and that should meet up with us there?" Sebastian replied to them.

"OK!" they both replied before going out of the bar together.

"To get away from another dimension. They really have gotten strong." Francesca thought really proud of them.

"Well, what did you expect? They will surpass us later on too." Sebastian replied.

"Well, looks like Eta, Theta, Yota and Kappa came here too. Why so suddenly? she replied.

"That's what I want to find out too at headquarters now." Sebastian said.

While Leo and Pikuna where walking at a certain point said. "Hey sis."

"Yeah?" Pikuna said walking by side by side with him,looking at him smiling. "I wanted to say that I'm sorry this morning. I kinda exaggerated a little." Leo replied to her really meaning it.

"You're still thinking about that?" she replied laughing a little.

"Well, yes." Leo admitted. "It's ok really. I'd actually forgotten about it. Although it's good to see that you're your usual self now." Pikuna replied hugging him.

"It seems Celia did a great job."

"Hey wait a sec.. How did you know she talked to me?" Leo said looking at her in surprise.

"Feminine intuition." Pikuna replied back jokingly.

"And you expect me to buy that?" he replied.

"That's up to you." she replied.

When they reached the plaza they saw that the only ones that remained there were Inc, Celia, Ignis, Bastet, Fema, Dashi and two other people they never saw. "Have you guys already finished?" Leo asked them seeing no one in sight.

"Yup, we where kinda fast since the others from D.W.O.S. helped us." Ignis explained to them.

Fema and Dashi came towards them with the two people that Leo could finally see better and again he was speechless.

In front of him stood two girls that looked completely the same.

Very good looking ones that had long black hair and brown eyes.

They were as tall as him and where wearing a pirate costume with a black dress having peasant-style top and flared skirt with bow accents and ruching on the sleeves give the. It also had a double lace-up, velvet corset and velvet skirt overlay with the pirate hat as the finishing touch.

"Leo, I would like to meet our tamers Sharron and Allyson." Dashi said pointing first at the girl near him and then at the girl near Fema.

"Hi... the names Leo and this is Pikuna." Leo said introducing Pikuna who stood along side him.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Pikuna said smiling at them.

"Dashi told me everything you guys did and I'm actually really envious. I wanted a part of the action too!"the girl near Dashi said very energetically.

"We are really grateful that you helped Fema and Dashi out there and saved us." the other girl said gently giving a a bow.

"Wow, wow. No need to be so formal. It's good to see that nothing bad happened to you." Leo said not expecting her to do that.

"Well, we don't know what even happened. We remember being dragged in that place, but it's all black since before we woke up here again." Allyson replied.

"Maybe everyone was in some sort of spell or something" Pikuna thought remembering that when they where in the cathedral everyone that was trapped appeared to be sleeping.

"Ah, who cares? The important thing is that everything has gone well in the end. It was fun fighting alongside you guys." Fema said.

"Well, it was nice having you guys along too. I rarely see Digimon as strong as you." Leo replied.

"Well of course. My Dashi here is one power house all right" Sharron said giving a small punch on his shoulder.

"That's a bit overshooting." Dashi replied blushing a little.

"But it's true!" she replied back making Leo and Pikuna laugh a little at the scene.

"Say, now that you make me think of it. how did you guys manage to get to know each other and furthermore come out of that tunnel in the altar?" Pikuna asked Leo curiously to know.

"Hey, that's right." both the twins looked at each of their Digimon.

"Well, I met Fema when I went to buy Celia something to drink." Leo explained followed by Dashi who said: "And I met Celia while she went searching for Leo and she bumped into me by accident."

"As for the castle we met by chance and at first we were attacked by Celia thinking we were enemies. Actually, we didn't know that either one of us knew each others partner." Fema added giggling a little remembering the scene.

"The part of the heroic entrance wasn't how I have planned at first. Me and Dashi figured out that there was a passage somewhere and we went to check it but it ended like this." Leo said sighing.

Flash back

Leo opened the door to the music room that he checked out earlier with Celia and he already started searching around for anything that could be like a switch.

"Check around to see if you find something. I wouldn't be surprised if a instrument around here could be something that opens a path."

"Well, good point on that part. But it's going to take a while." Fema said looking on how many instruments and how big the room was.

"Still better than staying and doing nothing." Dashi replied starting to look around himself.

"I still think it's kind of pointless." Celia said sighing joining everyone on the search.

All of them looked everywhere and controlled every single instrument but weren't lucky at all.

After a while they stopped and Leo stood with the others in the center of the room trying to figure out what to do next.

"But if it's not here then where it could be? This place is the only logical place I could think of right now." Leo said a bit disappointed that his plan didn't work.

"I'm pretty sure there is a path somewhere, guess we will have to search elsewhere." Dashi replied trying to comfort him. "Yeah, but the question is where?" Fema added.

"Well, I think that there is no path. I already said that it was useless to come here in the first place." Celia said going towards the door of the room starting to go out but stopped when she noticed something and giggled.

"What's so funny?" Leo asked a little angry not finding the situation amusing at all.

"Well, we used my wings for light when this room had a light switch all along." Celia said pointing to the small switch at the right wall near the door.

"Light switch?" the three of them replied in unison looking up but not seeing any lights anywhere.

"Let's see if it works." Celia said starting to switch it on but Leo yelled: "Wait! It could be a - " but that was too late when she turned it on but no lights turned on instead the floor where Leo, Dashi and Fema stood on opened and make them fell yelling.

"Oh God! GUYS! " Celia said when she saw this and jumped in the hole after them.

Time return

"And that's what happened." Leo finished, Pikuna and the twins couldn't help but laugh finding the scene quite hilarious.

"And you actually where on the right spot too from all the places in that room." Pikuna said still laughing a little.

"Well, at least we arrived where we wanted to so we shouldn't complain so much." Dashi replied trying to see the good part of it.

"Well, I think it's best if we take our leave now. To be really honest, I'm kinda tired and we still need to unpack all our luggage back home." Fema said.

"Wait, you mean you guys weren't from around here?" Leo asked curiously.

"No, we came all the way from Torino to live here. But we heard about Gardaland a lot and when we found out that the were holding a Halloween the day after we came here. We couldn't help but go and visit for once. It took us awhile to convince our parents to take us come here and now this happened. We will be scolded for sure." Allyson said sighing.

"Well, if you guys want we can show you around Verona sometime ." Pikuna suggested.

"That wouldn't be a bad idea." Fema replied accepting the offer.

"We wouldn't mind at all." Leo said.

The next few minutes everyone of them said they're goodbyes and promised they'd meet again sometime.

When they left Inc couldn't help but think:"What did she to Verona for, I wonder?" looking towards Fema.

"They sure are nice guys, aren't they?" Pikuna said to Leo. "Yup they sure are. You know, I'm quite amazed you and Inc weren't surprised in the similarities in your looks." Leo replied to her.

"Well, I admit I was a little surprised, but a lot of Digimon look similar in some cases between them. So it isn't always that much of a surprise."

"Really now." Leo said looking towards Celia who was talking with Ignis and Bastet about something.

"Watch this." Leo said smiling at Pikuna sneaking towards Celia and when she was near her grabbing him he said: "BOO!" making her jump from fright and yelled: "No, please don't eat me!".

At that moment Leo fell to the ground laughing hard followed by the others who couldn't help but laugh either.

Celia actually felt really embarrassed and blushed a little.

"Hey, come on Leo, that's just mean!"

"Sorry, sorry. I just wanted to do it one more time. It's just too rich." Leo replied between laughs.

"Oh, I'll give you rich!" she said trying to lounge towards him but he dodged saying "Have I actually succeeded in making ypu angry for once. Do you want me to put the safe light at night from now on?" Leo replied starting to run away from her.

"Come back here!" Celia yelled running towards him.

"Say, when am I going to turn back to normal?" Inc asked Ignis seeing that he still was in his Twilight form.

"It depends. The first time always takes a while to turn back to your original form, but later on you'll be able to do it on you own." Ignis explained to him.

"So I'll stay like this for a while huh?" Inc said.

"I don't care. You look really awesome like this Incy." Pikuna said hugging him and nuzzling his cheek.

"I'm glad you like it. I have to get used to these though." Inc said flapping his wings a little.

"We should get those two and get going by know. It's been a wild day for you guys." Bastet said to them.

"Fine. Oh, almost forgot. Sebastian and Francesca said they were going to headquarters and you should go there too." Pikuna said remembering their request.

Both Ignis and Bastet looked at each other for a second when they heard that, already knowing as to why they should go there.

"We understand. Thanks for telling us. We should get going." Ignis said taking Bastet's paw. "We'll see each other later. Take care, ok?" Bastet said smiling at them. "Ok!" they both replied.

When Bastet and Ignis went away Inc said. "Let's get those two kids and go home, shall we?" Inc said to Pikuna making her giggle when he called Leo and Celia kids.

"Ok, lead the way Incy." she replied cheerfully.

From the very top of the "Space Vertigo" a very tall attraction that sends people down from the top at great speeds, a figure standing on it saying "They sure are getting interesting. Especially you Alpha. A digivolution with both the Digisoul and a modify card. The first time I've seen something like it. Maybe this assignment isn't half bad."