The Reason to Fight

In a pitch black place a white butterfly flies through the dark and continues to fly as if it wanted to go somewhere.

Stories...

Happy Stories.... Sad Stories..

Tragic Stories... Unknown Stories.

Stories of Myself and the others who dear to me...

Everyone has their own Story that holds Memories, Dreams....

and that's makes you who you really are just like me .

These Stories that exist connects the so called 'Fate'

on the boundary between the worlds and the Cyberspaces.

The colorless butterfly continues to fly when it reached a door full of light which connected to a another world.

(Background music- Reminscence - Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker's Memory Soundtrack on Youtube)

"Man, I can't believe you two came along with us this is going to be a pain." Complained Ace as the four of them walk through the Silent Woods to find the Dwarfs' Mines and Rei raises an eyebrow at him along with Grim when the dark blue-haired man with a black spade on his right eye snapped at him angry, "Whose fault is it? If you only listen to me in the Cafeteria this wouldnt be happened!"

That ticks the orange-haired man, "Hah?! Your partical at fault to Juice If you only shouldn't tossed me up to the chandelier we wouldnt be here! Its a miracle that I didnt die back there!" He countered him with that argument this made Deuce out of edge but making a comment about his name. "My name is Deuce, not 'Juice' ". As they are now started to fight each other again when Rei who is now at the frontline slowed down a bit to go between those two bickering each other.

"All right boys, we don't have time for this remember what we are looking for got it." She said calmy to them that make them stop for now. As they continued to walk through these woods then the four stood with a little bridge to connecting to the other side with two pathways. One leading to the small cottage and the other would probaly leads to the mines.

They looked around and it was gloomy to think that it was flourish in business long time ago when Deuce muttered. "So this is Dwarfs' Mine.. It used to be prosperous, thanks to magic crystal mining but.." Everyone agreed that and Grim nuzzled on Rei's hair that is now a bit fluffier thanks to the hectic today as he shivered in fear. "Uuuuhh.. Feels like something could jump out..."

She smiled then Rei scratches Grim's neck to soother him, "Don't worry Grim its just the wind and I did tell you that as a family we protected each other no matter." Deuce looked curious at her why she forgive this monster cat even though it caused trouble before. 'She sure is incredible nice...' The dark blue haired man thought and blushed a little since he doesnt know how to deal this women but before that Deuce needs to focused on finding this magic stone.

While the small house caught their eyes along and it seems that Ace noticed too. "Oh, there's a house back there. Let's go ask them about the mine." He tells them.

The group started to walk over to the house, Deuce knocked on the door, "Good evening.." He greeted only to step in the house, "I guess it's abandoned.. It's a mess in here." Everyone entered the empty home noticing small seven chairs. Though a couple of them were on the ground by the small table. A pickaxe wedged on the table.

"It's so sad here." Rei said along with her Digimon who agreed her in silence as they dont wanted be found out after all and she also thought in her narrowed eyes, 'I can't believe it that the Seven Dwarfes that Sora told me about when I was little are gone now... Where must something happening here that no one knows that... This is a greatest mystery that no one solved this...'

Unknown to three Rei's eyes changed in gold as showed her what happened to this cottage and to the Seven Dwarfes.

A girl with black hair like ebony, her lips were red like blood and her skin is so white like snow lives with the seven Dwarfes leaves with her prince who saved her from a poisened apple and everyone was happy for her that she got an happy ending but there was one wasnt happy about to see her gone...

Rei snapped when Ace said something to this small house, "Aren't the tables and chairs on the small side? Are they for kids? One, two... There's seven! So many!"

"This was probably a lively home when Dwarfs' Mine flourished." Said Deuce with a sad expression.

Ace looked at him as if he didnt care what happened here, "They did what they had to. After all, magic crystals are found inside coal. For now, let's go check it out."

'This is why I am here...to safe this own who swallowed in their own darkness and is really ironically what happened between me and Meicoomon in nine years ago.'

Rei clenched her fists but nodded along with them and walked out of the house, Deuce closing the door. As they walked over to the second path leading to the mines. They stood in front of the entrance, seeing the pitch black entrance with an overgrown tree above it with moss all over the roots and rocks.

"W-we're gonna go in that pitch black cave!?" Questioned a scared Grim still clinged to this black-haired Digimon Tamer.

Ace snickered at the cat, "Scared? Lame." He mocked.

Rei tapped her digivice goggle to make a bit of lights to see things and the braincell duo looked amazed how convinient this is.

"Good thinking with your strange goggle." Ace praised at her happily and Deuce nodded in agreed with him. "Yeah we dont have to walk through in the dark even though is a dim light its better than nothing." The navy haired boy said.

She raised an eyebrow at them and muttered, "Mmm I wonder If I can use magic to shine this way...Oh well beggars cant be chosen since I dont know how.."

They entering the mines while Rei holds her goggle through the exiting the dark pathway, they all entered the interior of the mines seeing the multi-colored crystals on the walls.

'I guess some of the greedy digimon would certainly like this..' She thought while her digimon are going prepare what comes next and she sighed, 'It seems the secret will cat out off the bag pretty soon..'

Ace noticed her sighed. "Are you ok?" He asked in concern that Rei's was gonna ditch them and She nodded with her smile pretend that she was fine but the orange haired boy was suspicious of her smile and let it off for awhile.

"Wait!" Deuce exclaimed, making them stop and turn to the boy.

"What?" Ace asked confused as to why they stopped and Rei looked curioused why they stopped when she sensed something. Darkness. Despair. Sadness. Rage. Loneliness and every negative energy from the depths of the mines and it comes further to them. Deuce felt uneasy, "Something.. is there!" He said. when suddenly ghosts apeared in front of them that makes Ace, Deuce and Grim shrieked in fear.

(Music changed by Emergence of a Threat - Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker's Memory Soundtrack)

"Eeek!?" Screamed Grim, as two ghosts finally made their appearance.

The large ghost grinned, "Heeee hee hee! Our first visitors in ten years!"

"Make yourselves at home. For eternity!" Shouted the smaller ghost which the boys screamed and ran deeper in the mines leaving Rei behind. She sighed and scratches Grim's ear to confront him while she tapped at her digivice again to release Meicoomon, Lunamon and Geo.

The three Digimon scretched their body as if they are to long in this digivice and Meicoomon jumped at her free shoulder which Rei didnt mind those extra weight thanks to the training with the Sistermon in the digital world and the digimons nodded at her as if they read her minds what she truely wanted to do.

They headed off to the two who reached the depths of the mines while the ghosts gaped at them as they leaded the odd bunch to the dangerous monster who lived here.

"Do you think what I am thinking?" The smaller ghost asked to the other ghost and his head, "I think we leaded them more into the danger instead of leaving the mines even though it was fun to scared those boys." The large ghost paused, "This human girl who summoned those unknown monsters who knows they came from. They knew they run to the danger but why heading there..."

The ghosts vanished to this place and headed somewhere, while Rei and her crew are running to the danger.

The boys reached this huge crystal pillar unawear to them Lunamon and Geo are hiding now to this large crystal. "This place is haunted with ghosts, too!" Ace said scratching the back of his head.

"We don't have time to deal with them one by one. Let's go!" Deuce told with his arms crossed while.

Ace looked at him and glared, "Don't think you can just order me around. If you hadn't done something so idiotic, we wouldn't be in this mess."

Glaring back at Ace,"You wanna talk about who started it? It's because you wouldn't clean!" Deuce argued. Adding more fuel to the fire Ace pointed towards the navy haired boy, "It started when YOU started to throw me off to this DAMN CHANDELIER!"

YOU! Do you understand our situation right now? We're all expelled if we don't get back with a magic crystal by tomorrow morning!" Deuce screamed at the orange haired boy.

Ace looking at the floor and grumbled, "So stop patronizing me. It's really ticking me off."

Rei catched up with them and holding her breath, "Calm you two fighting each other it would waste our time." She sighed as Rei saw them fighting each other again and seeing both looking away each other while Grim watched them deadpanned. 'Why is that when they fighting each other I have an odd feeling that they getting along each other like those certain Chosen Children..' She thought and quietly remembers the Child of Courage and the Child of Friendship that she watched at her monitor in her tower but never intergrate them before because her job was to observe the digital world in her golden cage. Until the negative energy she felt before comes up to them in their way.

'Shit!' She thought along with her digimons who hiding behind those two boys and they growled as the threat come closer to this way as they didn't care when those boys looked at them in shook. "Uuwaahh?! What are those monsters!?" Ace and Deuce yelled in shock when they also heard this fainted voice that coming up in their way.

"....on't...ive....wo.." The voice said, shocking the group. Ace gulped, "W-who said that?" He asked.

"St...one....sssss.....mine...." The voice muttered.

"I think it's... getting closer..."

They all turned their heads to see a monster with a broken round glass bottle for a head. On top of its head was a brown hat and it was wearing a burgundy button up jacket with a belt with a gold buckle around it's waist. Also black ooze dripping from the broken bottle and the rest serving as its entire body. Rei wided her eyes recognized those clothes and knew who it was. 'Grumpy...'

"Stone.... IS MIIIIIIIIIIINNNEEEE!!"

"I-It's heeeeeeeeeeere!!!" The boys screamed and started to run again and leaving Rei behind as she stood her ground.

(Background Music changed- Hacker's Dignity - Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker's Memory Soundtrack)

The black haired girl grabed quickly her katana out off her bag when the pickaxe attacked her, she blocked off when Grim stared at her eyes that looked determined to do something instead of running off along with those duo.

'This what they mean that Rei is very stubborn and to reckless if she fighting alone...' The cat monster though and made his decision, Grim jumped off her shoulder he closed his eyes as spatted blue fire at this monster with a brocken glass bottle on his head at the body to made this monster stumbled a bit while Meicoomon stood beside Rei, Lunamon and Geo at the front of them.

When Ace stopped at his track along with Deuce as they looked behind that the raven haired girl was holding with her strange sword as she blocked this pickaxe while Grim spatted fire at it. They both looked at each other.

"They are crazy to fight this monster! I mean look at these size there is no way they going to defeat this monster!" Said Ace in disbelief while the navy haired looked at him then to the others that they fight to this crazy monster. He clenched his fists and said, "You know what? I will fight along with them since we have to get this magic stone!"

The orange haired boy looked at him in shock as Deuce ran off to Rei's group and Ace gritted his teeth, "Fine I will fight to guys since its uncool to be expelled in this god damned school!" He said in frustration and ran behind the navy haired boy.

"X-Scratch!" As Meiccomon slashed with her special move at its neck while the white mammal rabbit twirls her ear to create a large vortex of bubbles and shout, "Lop-ear Ripple!"

Lunamon threw it at the ink monster which was entrapped at moment when suddenly someone shouted behind at them.

"CAULDRON!" The dark blue haired boy shouted while his pen pointed at the ink monster and a black cauldron appeared above this monster which hit it this brocken ink bottle and made a crack of it while Ace complained behind him, "Man you guys are really a pain of the ass." And he looked first at Rei when she holds her strange sword which is cracked thanks to the block at the pickaxe then at Grim and her Digimons. "Superviser- no Rei when its over you going to explain to us what these are!" He pointed at those monsters that Ace didnt see them before in his life along with Deuce who nodded in agreed even though the dark blue haired boy dislike him to agreed with him.

Rei sighed, unsheated her cracked katana and is now in her bag that she decided to go with her fists, 'This is why I hated to use cheap swords they cracked everytime when I blocked with something or someone strong...' She nodded at them while spoke with one condition. "Under one condition tell no one what I going to explain even the staffs at the school- no everyone shouldnt know this." The duo looked at each other and nodded, "Deal!"

"St....one, won't....give...!" The faceless monster which is still entrapped by this bubble vortex that Lunamon created muttered out loudly catching everyone's attention.

Deuce perked up, "So there really are magic crystals left!"

Then the black haired girl looked at the crack that Deuce made and got an idea then her digivice started to glow in white. "Lunamon! Meicoomon!"

The mammal rabbit and the orange tigred feline digimon nodded at her while Geo and Grim looked at each other then focused on the ink monster. Rei said both of them, "Alright Ace and Deuce let's corporate now!"

The duo looked at each other then back to her, "Alright give us the plan." They said at the same time then both looked at each other again and huffed.

Rei looked at them amused and pointed at the ink monster's head bottle which was cracked thanks to Deuce. "See this? This is we have aim for so Ace support Grim and Geo they need strong firepower. Deuce, Meicoomon, Lunamon and I are going for the head, got it?"

"Roger, leader!" The orange haired boy grinned at her while Deuce nodded at with a smile and grabed his fist with his other hand, "Leave it us!"

(Battle Music- Be The Winners)

When Lunamon started to glow while Meicoomon gather the energy on her digivice that colorful aura surrounded her and the duo seemed suprise when this white rabbit started to change while Geo sighed, "Man I wish I was going to evolve again but beggars can't chosen consired the fact that my Adult form is quite big here in this mine..."

Ace looked at the orange lizard and asked curiousity, "Adult form? Evolve?"

Geo Agumon shrugged and looked at the ink monster. "We explain later since we have something to do here and Rei-chan will explain it to you guys consired you have to get this pretty stone for pretend your explusion."

The orange haired boy paled and Grim snarked at him, "Come on henchman! Its time for teamwork!"

Ace looked annoying at him but shrugged off as he casted on this ink monster. "Baby Flame!" The orange lizard releases a stream of fire from its mouth. Grim's small blue fire blew it out from his mouth. The fire they created and Ace's wind gushes combines a big and powerful fireball that hits this ink monster while Lunamon started to evolved.

"Lunamon...Shinka!"

The small rabbit digimon evolved into a bigger rabbit that has gloves with moon crescent on it and wears a kinda silver mask on her face. "Lekismon." The grown rabbit digimon called her own name as its gained this form.

Ace and Deuce gaped what they witness and quickly recovered since Rei is going explain them later. The masked rabbit jumped higher and raised her feet as its yelled, "Moon Night Kick." She comes down at the ink monster on its cracked bottle head with a kick and Meicoomon climbed fast on its body at she reached on its head along with Rei. The blue haired boy also prepared its last attack.

"Cauldron!" He summoned again a heavy black cauldron at the same time that Rei punched on its bottle along with Meicoomon that used another special move, "Shut Claw!" Which scratches its brocken ink bottle with her sharp claw and the bottle is destroyed when they jumped down. Lekismon returned to her child form Lunamon when Ace and Deuce gave each other an high five.

"We did it!" They both shouted and Rei's Digimons returned back to her digivice except Meicoomon who is on her left shoulder and Grim on her other side. They smiled a them as they found something sparkled and Rei picked up when suddenly its going to be pitch black which swallowed the duo to.

"Eh?! Whats going on!?" Said Deuce in shook and Ace looked around in this pitch black void when some light appeared and showed something.

(Background Music changed- Cutting Away Sadness - Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker's Memory Soundtrack)

Or someone then a short, slender, fair skin, large pink cherry nose, half bald, long white beard, black eyebrows, lavender eyelids, hazel eyes, scowl and usually seen with an upset face looked at them.

"Is this that monster from before..?" Grim asked slowly which the Dwarf huffed.

"I must say didnt expected that someone such as human were going to saved me from this madness." The small man grumbled when Ace make a comment. "Wait why did you turned this ink monster anyway?"

Which the orange haired boy gained a slap along with Deuce. "Hey?! Why me to!?" The navy haired boy yelled in complain.

"Because I hate human Boys that's it," The dwarf grumbled then looked at Rei with a painful expression. "I must thank you that you saved me women and that weird monsters you summoned with your strange goggle that would Doc investigate it of course... I wonder If everyone forgive what I have done before.."

The grumpy Dwarf looked sad when the raven haired girl spoke to him, "I'm sure that your family are going to forgive you afterall suffered far enough and its time to go with them."

The small man looked at her eyes and saw something similar someone he knows when Deuce also wanted to say something when Ace grabbed on his shoulder shaked his head. They agreed this conversation should leave it her and the Dwarf spoked to her, "Women it seems Its time for me to go and I must saying that you resembled Snow quiet a bit how mature your are. I also hope what you said is true then. Farewell."

With that they all came back to the old mines. Deuce had an sad expression while Ace is quite when Rei broke the silence as she raised her right hand that hold this magic crystal, "Come now boys we need to get back." They nodded and followed her when Grim sniffed something then looked down as he saw a small black gem on the ground. He jumped down and took the gem gleefully.

(Memories- Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker's Memory Soundtrack)

"Hmm? What's this?" He questioned as everyone saw what he referred to seeing a black stone on the ground.

"Remnants from that monster? A magic crystal..? But I've never seen one pitch-black like coal before." Deuce said.

Grim began sniffing the stone, "This thing smells really good..." He muttered then ate it.

"No way!" Ace shouted.

The grey cat giving into his temptations, "This has to be candy the monster was hiding! Oooh, I can't hold back! Time to dig in!"He said while putting the stone in his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it.

"Grim. Spit that out now!" Rei and Meicoomon said in fear that this stone looked similar like an obsidian chrome digizoid in their digital world.

Just when the cat became stiff, it shocked the three humans and the orange feline digimon.

"Hey, you alright!?" Deuce asked.

Ace sighed, "Aaah. That's why you don't eat things off the ground~"

"D...D-d-d-d-d... DELICIOUS!!" He shouted happily jumping in the air.

"Wha!!?" With that the gloomy atmosphere was gone.

Grim smiled nodding with his arms crossed, "It's full-bodied, but also rich, with an aromatic sweetness that blooms in my mouth... Like a whole field of flowers in my mouth!"

Rei and Meicoomon sweatdropped a bit while they smiled that the mood was gotten a bit brighter thanks to the gray cat.

Ace looked at Grim with disgust, "Bleeeeegh. Monsters really do have different tastes than us."

"I guess so. But more than that...Most people wouldn't even put a mystery object in their mouth without a thought." Commented Deuce.

The ravenette and Meicoomon looked at him with a funny expression as Grim began to laugh like madman, "Gahahaha! Tasty, tasty! Don't worry, my stomach isn't weak like yours." He reassured them.

Ace backed away from the cat, "Don't come crawling to me when you get sick later." He stated.

"Actually he'll be coming to me, remember I'm responsible for him." Rei said with a sigh getting a pat on the head from Ace.

Deuce looked at them and said, "Switching gears, let's get this magic crystal to the headmaster!"

They nodded while Meicoomon getting back to Rei's digivice which seemed impressive to the boys and started to thinking it looks cool what she wears is around her neck and her long sleeved white coat as she took the front again like a leader they thinking. When they reached the surface the dawn began to rise and Rei looked peaceful as she looked up to the sky while the boys paled.

"Let's run! We have to hurry!" Ace and Deuce yelled and Ace carried the black haired girl in bride style. The navy haired boy looked jealous as the orange haired boy carried her while he holds the grey cat who yells, "FuuNNNyaaa?!"

Well here goes his poor ears and they began to ran into the mirror then they came back to school.