The Search for Angemon (Spirit Hunt)(Agumaru)

"In the human world, jungles and deserts are usually the places to have temples, not forests... but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. And I don't think I can carry you up these stairs, so we're both going to have to walk."

After a long, long flight of stairs, the two finally made it to the top. Iki wasn't completely out of breath, but a walk like that could still make him tired. "That... took a while. Anyways, we're here," Iki says. He begins to walk towards the temple doors, which were way taller than the two of them, or even a Digimon as tall as Angemon. He then begins to push the door open, which then, of course, opens up to reveal a long hallway, lightened up by a long wall of torches. The inside of this temple looked old and ancient as well, with many ancient markings along the walls.

Iki turned around to Agumaru. "So? Shall we?"

Iki was starting to regret bringing Agumaru along since he was nearly distracted by wanting to go up and down the stairs over and over again. Luckily, he managed to get himself on task, and so the hunt continued.

"That's... actually a smart idea," Iki says after Agumaru says to look for anything out of place. So, from that entrance, he surveyed the entire hallway. He noticed that there were multiple holes along the horizontal walls, meaning that those could be poison darts. Then he began looking at the ground and noticed that some stones were slightly darker than others.

"Hm..." Iki hums as he picks up a loose rock from the ground, and lightly tossed it onto one of the darker stones. As soon as it landed, multiple arrows started shooting out from the holes for a few seconds before stopping. "Okay, we need to walk slowly... do not step on any of the dark stones."

"I doubt there'll be any traps that take apart the entire temple..." Iki says. Iki, of course, nimbly leaps over any tile plate he saw, and luckily the two of them managed to reach the end without setting off any more of those poison darts. "Good job. Now we continue on."

The next section after the first hallway was a staircase that led downwards. The markings of binary code on the walls became more and more apparent as they descended into the lower level. When the stairs had finally ended, there was a hallway lit with more torches, and the hallway split in two directions, one to the left and one to the right.

However, there was something else that occupied that hallway that clearly did not belong in a temple in the middle of the forest: a vending machine. This vending machine looked very appealing, with loads of yummy candies, chocolates, and sodas to choose from, and it was just begging to be used.

"...I won't even question why there's a vending machine here," Iki says. "But now we need to decide which way we're supposed to go... my gut tells me that the path to the right is the correct way."

Iki had a bad feeling about that machine. When Agumaru went closer to it to inspect the various candies, Iki's feeling was confirmed when he saw movement in the dispenser portion of the machine.

"AGUMARU, LOOK OUT!"

He was too late. Suddenly, a swarm of DemiDevimons come out of the machine and start circling around Agumaru, trying to shoot at him with Demi Darts in the process.

"This was definitely a trap, and we fell for it! Ninja Blade!" Iki immediately yelled, throwing a bunch of shooting stars at the DemiDevimon, which caused them all to fall back a bit, giving Agumaru enough room to get out. There were far too many to fight alone; the pair had to get out of there. Iki immediately began running down the path to the left of the vending machine. "If you want to actually live, I suggest you follow me now!" He called out.

God dammit, this is not going well at all! Iki thinks as he and Agumaru ran down the hall with a bunch of angry DemiDevimon chasing after them. Come on, think, gotta find a safe place... ah, there we go! Thankfully, the entryway at the end of the hall was nearing closer and closer. As soon as Iki and Agumaru passed it, Iki looked around for a door.

"Come on... come ooonnn..." Iki grunts as he attempts to shut the door. After a while of pushing, with those DemiDevimon coming closer and closer, Iki finally managed to close the door, just in time so that the DemiDevimons couldn't get in. "Phew... we're safe now..." Iki then hears a loud plopping sound. "...Agumaru?"

Iki turned around to see Agumaru unconscious, face flat on the ground. A bunch of those Demi Darts were in him, as well. "Well, that's a shame..." With Agumaru's usefulness now dried up, Iki just continued on his way, not looking back for even a second. "Now, where's that spirit...?"

Iki had nearly ditched the ToyAgumon that Iki used as bait, when suddenly he heard his name being called out. "Oh, so he's still useful after all," Iki said to himself before turning around. "I'm down here, Agumaru!"

When - or if - Agumaru came down to him, Iki then turned back around. "My apologies. I thought you had died... are you okay? We have to continue on. I think the spirit is near..." Iki says before continuing down this hallway.

The pair then continued down the hallways, the only light source being torches. As they walked, Iki began to feel his stomach rumble. "Do you have the supplies with you?"

Turned out they had dropped them when they were being chased by the DemiDevimon.

Eventually, the hallway led to a supposed dead end. However, there was a secret: the wall in front of them was fake, and if they hit a certain random tile switch, the wall would turn and reveal another room.