Night had fallen on the mammalian court. Rika and Catsuramon had safely made it away from the toops, and were hiding near the river, totally unaware that Jeri and her crew were about to enter the palace courts. Jeri had been adimant that everyone, including a nearly rabid Renamon stick to there original plan. Now they crept up to the city walls and hid in the shadows.
"What now?" Makuramon whispered.
"You're the smallest, go scout out the guards." Pajiramon replied.
"Uhhh...ba gah. If I must." The monkey Deva scurried up the wall. He peeked his small head over the top, and say torchs lit everywhere. There didn't seem to be anyone on the move, except for the door guards, which were two WereGarurumon.
"Great." Makuramon thought as he scurried back down.
"Well? What did you see?" asked Sinduramon.
"Just a couple of Weregarurumon are guarding the gate. The courts seem to be empty." Makuramon replied.
"Well, now what do we do?" Jeri asked. "WereGarurumon look pretty fierce."
"They are, my dear." Pajiramon replied. "But I think that we can take them."
"Of course we can." Sinduramon spoke up. "Let's go."
"Wait!" Renamon said. "We have to be quiet about this, or someone will hear and the whole Mammilion army will be on our backs. Let me lure them out to you all, and then you can demolish them. But we must be quick about it!"
"Sounds good, Renamon, but be careful." Jeri said.
Renamon moved steathily toward the gates, then slowed to a graceful, suprisingly lady-like walk.
"Who goes there!?" one of the Weregarurumon shouted.
"A fellow mammal digimon. I seem to have lost my gifts to the queen. Could you boys come on down and help me?" Renamon winked at them. The two guards looked at one another and smiled, but only one came down.
"Shoot!" Jeri shrieked. "Only one came down!"
"I have a plan. Sinduramon said, and took silently to flight.
WereGarurumon walked upto Renamon and smiled.
"What am I looking for?" He asked.
"It was a gold statue of her majesty. I just had it. It must have fallen from my pack." Renamon replied. "Let's look back this way."
Renamon twirled her tail around the WereGarurumon's nose, who obediantly followed. When they had walked a hundred yards from the main gate, Renamon stopped.
"I think it was around here that I noticed it missing." She said perilously.
Makuramon hoisted a stone out of the ground and threw it over the wall to distract the other guard. It landed with a loud thud on the other side. The WereGarurumon stepped down to see what it was.
"Now!" Jeri said.
"Primal orb!"
"Thunder Stomp!"
"What the...." the WereGarurumon looked back just in time to see the attacks.
"Suprise." Renamon said sarcastically. "Diamond storm!"
The First Guard was vaporised. Almost imediatly, the second WereGarurumon came running out. He prepared an attack just as Sinduramon swooped down.
"Positron Pulse!" The attack caught him totally off guard. He fell, a little more than stunned.
"This ought to fix him." Pajiramon said, holding up her crossbow. She pulled the trigger and the arrow glowed as it hit WereGarurumon dead in the chest. He too Vaporised.
"There was a day when I would have loaded that data in an instant." Renamon commented.
"We've all come a long way." Pajiramon added. "Come. Quickly now." The group headed into the palace courts. They ran to a nearby alley, between to tall pillared structures.
"Do you notice anything funny?" Renamon finally asked, looking around.
"Yeah, there is no one around. I thought this place would be crawling with digimon." Jeri replied. "Wonder where they all are?"
"Shhhh....Listen." Pajiramon said.
Jeri strained to hear the low roar comming from the central part of the Palace grounds. She thought she heard some kind of chanting going on.
"Come on, Let's take a look." Makuramon said, walking out into the street. The group made their way towards the sound. There was kind of a central park within th whole complex, and everyone moved through it. The sound grew louder, and seemed to be comming from the very center of the park. As they approached, Jeri was in awe of what was in front of her. There, streched out across a field the size of three soccer fields, was the entire Mammalion Digimon sect. Near the front of the collisium, was a sort of throne-like structure, where Anubismon and Pharaohmon sat.
"Oh my gosh...so many digimon." Jeri said solemly.
Renamon scanned the crowd.
"No sign of Rika." she said.
"Wait. Listen....." Jeri said. Anubismon was speaking to the sect.
"We cannot allow the escaped human to run free. She holds the key to finally allowing us to succeed in our quest for freedom!"
"Key?.....Escaped? Oh no, Rika's not here!" Jeri gasped.
"We have got to go now!" Makuramon said.
"Yes I agree. We are in too great of danger to remain here." Renamon added.
The group ran back through the park area and into the street. They had almost made it back to the gates when something grabbed Jeri. She quickly turned to see her attacker and nearly fainted.
"LEOMON?!"
"Jeri! Run! He's not the same Leomon!" Renamon shouted, but Jeri just stared. The Leomon picked her up and ran back towards the gathering in the colisium. The others ran after them, but it was too late. Leomon had reached the throne of Anubismon.
