Wow! I haven't written anything in years! I may be a little rusty, and I may have a couple things wrong but don't fret! I have a plan! This is technically an Adventure/Frontier crossover, though the adventure characters have not yet made an actual appearance, and there is also the possibility of tamers showing up somewhere.

FYI - I altered and butchered the Legendary Warrior's story just a wee bit to fit my story line, forgive me!

That's it for now, Thanks for reading!

RyukiRocks

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon.

CHAPTER 1

"AAaahhhh-oomph!" multiple voices groaned simultaneously, as they fell from the sky and landed in a heap on the forest floor.

Twin brothers, Kouji and Kouichie, sat up from their horizontal position on the ground, stretching and testing their limbs, to take a look around at their surroundings. The younger brother by mere minutes, Kouji (Minamoto) Ichijouji, is 5' 11", with dark indigo hair in a pony, and a muscular build honed from several years of kendo. He's currently wearing a pair of dark slim fit jeans, a white Button-up shirt (sleeve rolled up 3/4 , top buttons undone, untucked) navy blue loose tie, yellow open suit vest, navy blue leather jacket with the sleeves rolled up, his famous bandana, and a pair of black shoes. Next to him, sits his older twin brother Kouichie (Kimura) Ichijouji, same height and hair color, but a shorter hair length. He is wearing a pair of slim-fit jeans, dark gray button-up shirt (short sleeves, all buttons undone), dark green t-shirt undershirt, loose dark red tie, dark red leather jacket, combat boots, and a triangle-shaped backpack with one cross-body strap.

The two brothers glanced over each other, making sure the other was uninjured, then slowly stood up. They continued to glance over the forested area, staying alert in case of danger. Kouichie looked up towards the sky, staring questionably at the branches above them, wondering how they could fall and not hit or land in the trees.

"Where do you think we are?" Kouichie asked without looking at his brother.

"With any luck, near the Forest Terminal or a Trailmon station so we can find someone to tell us what's going on." Kouji shrugged.

"I wonder if the others are here." Kouji hummed.

"I could swear I heard someone else screaming as we fell…and now that I think about it, Zoe was just outside the doorway when we were transported here…" Kouji trailed off in thought.

"ZOE!" Kouichie yelled, looking up in the trees.

"What are you doing?!" Kouji hissed.

"If Zoe did come through with us, she didn't land with us, so she might either be lost on the ground somewhere, or stuck up in the trees, either way she isn't safe because we don't have our spirits and we don't know what's happened to the digital world since we left. We need to find her."

"Or, you could have just attracted the attention of a wild or evil digimon to our or Zoe's location." Kouji pointed out.

"Doesn't matter, we need to find Zoe." Kouchie rolled his eyes at his brother's pessimistic thought.

The two walked further into the forest, periodically shouting out Zoe's name in hopes of her hearing and/or finding them. Eventually, they started to hear the rustling noises of leaves coming from the branches high above them.

"Kouji, Kouichie?!" They heard a voice yell from above. The brother exchanged worried looks, before glancing up.

"Zoe, is that you?" Kouji called.

"Kouji! It is you! I'm so relieved!" Zoe yelled, voice oozing with relief.

"Where are you?" Kouichie asked.

"I'm hanging from some branch that doesn't seem very sturdy. I'm stuck up here, the nearest branch is too far away from me. Please, I need your help, I'm stuck up here and I can't get down!" She cried in fear. Zoe Orimoto is half Italian, half Japanese, and at 5' 4" she is the shortest member of the group, having stopped growing right before their first trip to the digital world. She's currently wearing a pair of indigo short shorts under a lavender colored semi-pleated skirt, an indigo collared button up sheer shirt (sleeveless, all buttons done, shirt length ends below belt), pink mid-thigh socks, mid-calf white boots, white leather gloves, white cropped leather jacket (sleeves rolled up to elbows), a lavender ninja pouch attached to left upper-thigh, and her hair in two long ponytails with her fringe left down.

"Hold on Z, we'll get you down. Whatever you do, don't let go. We'll get you down before you know it, just hold on tight." Kouji soothed. Before either twin could make a move to get her down, a wild attack came soaring through the foliage right between the two, who dove out of the way of the attack.

"What was that?!" Kouichie exclaimed. Another attack came soaring through the trees, this time connecting with its target, which happened to be the tree holding Zoe. It shook violently from the impact, and Zoe cried out in fear, clinging tighter to the branch.

"Zoe!" Kouji and Kouichie yelled with fear and concern. Before they could move to help her, a black digimon jumped out from behind a cluster of bushes, blocking their path.

"Cerberumon!" Kouji hissed.

"Hello again Warriors, you wouldn't happen to have any spirits to give me, would you?"

"Even if we did, we wouldn't give them to you!" Kouichie bravely shouted.

"Pity…guess your human fractal code will have to suffice. EMERALD BLAZE!" Cerberumon began haphazardly firing his attacks in every direction, a good portion of which hit the tree Zoe was currently stuck in.

"Ahhh!" Zoe yelled in fear, grasping onto the branch she hung from, for dear life as the tree jerked and swayed with each impact from the attacks. Kouji tightened his fists and grit his teeth in frustration, letting out a low snarl at the manic digimon's attacks endangering Zoe.

"We need to distract Cerberumon long enough to get Z out of the tree" Kouichie calmly stated.

"Good plan, one minor problem though…we don't have our spirits, and Cerberumon is an Ultimate level, how are we supposed to fight him off or even keep him busy long enough to get Zoe out of a 50 ft tall tree?" Kouji asked, sarcasm and worry dripping off of every word.

"I think I might have the solution!" Kouichie gasped, looking into his backpack. Kouji turned towards him, as he pulled out two boxes, each had one of their names on it. He passed one to Kouji and they opened the boxes with slight curiosity. Inside of Kouji's box, lay a belt, similar to a hero's utility belt, that had pouches attached to it, as well as a holster on the back to hold his D-tector, and a holster on his right that held the hilt of his lobo-kendo. The box also contained a thigh holster that holds a laser blaster.

Kouchie opened his box to find a belt similar to Kouji's, but instead of the kendo holster, there was a holster for a retractable staff hilt. The blade of the staff was made of a light similar to Kouji's kendo, and just as with the kendo, the blade disappeared when not in use. In the box, Kouichie also found a metal bracelet, and upon further inspection, he found a button on it that, when pressed, reveals a shield made of solid light. Lastly, he too found a blaster and thigh holster in his box.

"This is perfect." Kouj smirked, Kouichie grinned.

"Hey ya big overgrown puppy! Pick on someone who can actually fight back!" Kouji yelled, getting the temperate digimon's attention. Cerberumon growled angrily, turning his attention away from Zoe's tree, and onto the twins.

"I have no time for you children, I have orders from my master and you are impeding my mission. I suggest you give up now before someone gets hurt." He hissed.

"Yeah, not gonna happen" Kouichie smirked.

- With Zoe -

Oh god….what do I do, what do I do, what do I do…this stupid tree could collapse at any minute form all of Cerberumon's attacks…or I could lose my grip on this branch and plummet to the ground, whichever comes first…Why am I always the one getting into these stupid damsel situations? I can totally take care of myself…so why is fate always shoving me into these distress scenarios?

What the hell? Kouji and Kouichie get fun toys and I don't? Not cool….hey wait a second, what is this pouch on my thigh supposed to be for?

Without further ado, Zoe hoisted herself onto the branch, leaning against the trunk to provide more stability and balance. Upon opening the pouch on her thigh, Zoe found exactly what she needed…a box with her name on it, similar to the ones Kouichie found in his bag. She opened the box and found a pair of claw attachments for her gloves which resembled Zephyrmon's own. They were bulky in size, and each had a grappling hook feature. She also found a belt similar to Kouji and Kouichies, a headband that had a visor attachment that could be pushed down to cover her eyes or pushed back upon her head to be worn as a headband (think catwoman's ears/goggles from dark night). Lastly, she found a holster and blaster, which she immediately attached to her right thigh, moving the pouch to her left thigh.

Putting her belt on her hips, attaching the claws to her gloves, and putting the visor over her eyes, Zoe was excited to test out her new tricks. Hmm…perhaps I can get out of this tree on my own after all. She thought eagerly, a plan already forming in her mind.

Without any further delays, Zoe prepared one of her claws to grappling hook mode, aiming and shooting for a branch 10 – 15 feet above her head on another tree. Jumping off her current branch, Zoe began twisting and turning and flipping acrobatically, in ways that were akin to her moves as Kazemon. As she neared the ground, and consequently the fight with Cerberumon, Zoe twisted her body around similar to how she would have normally attacked an enemy in her spirit form. She was able to land a good, solid, power-packed kick to his side, while simultaneously retracting the grappling hook, and flipping around and over so that she was falling towards the ground feet first.

"Hurricane wave!" Zoe shouted, releasing small wind cyclones, formed at the end of each claw, just as she did in her spirit forms, into the air and at the enigmatic digimon, all before she even landed on the ground. Cerberumon reared back from the combined attack, losing some of his ground, Kouji and Kouichie quickly and effectively taking advantage of the turn of events, by simultaneously attacking him with their blasters, staff and kendo. Zoe sent another wind attack at the digimon, effectively reverting him to his fractal code, which Kouji promptly swiped with his D-tector.

"See, you didn't need our help at all." Kouji said simply, glimpsing at me out of the corner of his eye. I just rolled my eyes, not bothering to acknowledge his taunt.

"Still, don't you think it's weird we somehow ended up with things in our bags that are reminiscent of our spirits?" I asked worriedly.

"Who knows," He said, furrowing his brow, "I don't want to jump to conclusions and say we won't get our spirits back at all, but right now, it doesn't exactly look like we will, and I don't want to feed anyone false hope." I nodded in understanding.

The three of them put their new weapons away and met in the middle of the clearing. Zoe glanced around nervously, weary of another attack, while Kouichie looked her over, checking for any injuries, and Kouji stood next to her, appearing uninterested with the going-ons and state of his companions and surroundings. They stood there silently for another 5 or 10 minutes before Kouji finally broke the peace.

"So despite me landing in a tree, 30 ft up in the air, I'd say the portal our parents put together was a success."

"We may have made it to the Digital World without much of a hitch, but how do we get back to the Real World?" Kouji asked. I looked around with a frown.

"There aren't any TV screens." I stated quietly, realizing what he was really asking. Kouichie noticed too and frowned as well.

"Exactly. Didn't your dad mention needing a computer or TV screen to be able to come home?"

"Yes, he did…"

"So now what, we can't go home, and we don't have our spirits." Kouichie spoke up.

"We need to decide what to do next, any suggestions?" Kouji deadpanned.

"We should contact one of the celestials or find Takuya and the others first." I pitched, Kouichie nodded.

"I was thinking exactly the same thing. If we find the celestials, we can get some answers and contact the others the same way Ophanimon always contacts us, assuming they did in fact come here. Two birds, one stone." He agreed.

"That sounds good and all, and who knows, maybe the others will have the same idea, and we'll meet them on the way to Seraphimon's castle, if they even came at all. But," Kouji paused, looking both of us in the eye before continuing, "But we also need to find our spirits." I exchanged a glance with Kouichie, we both knew he was right. If this trip to the Digital World is anything like the last time, we will need all the fire power we can get before going too far. And despite our initial success with the new weapons we found in our bags, they aren't nearly strong enough to replace our spirits.

"So…we head towards Fire Terminal, and hope that our spirits are in the same locations as the last time? And hope that someone will have an idea as to how to get home? Or that we will meet up with the others along the way?" I asked.

"As of right now, it seems that's all we can do, move onward and hope that everything goes according to plan." Kouji sighed. Kouichie pulled up a map on his D-tector.

"Where to first?" He asked.

"Look up 'Breezy Village' and the Fire Terminal." I suggested. Kouji nodded.

"It looks like Breezy Village is closer to our location than the Fire Terminal, but there's another place between us the village that's labeled 'Illumination Monastery'." He told us.

"That's the temple where I found my spirit. We should head there first." Kouji told us, to which we both agreed.

"How far away are we from the temple?" I asked.

"Not very far, less than an hour I'd say." Kouichie answered.

"Good, we could use a spirit or two, especially if we face anymore digimon." Kouji responded.

- Walk to temple -

When we arrived at the temple, we followed Kouji down into the main room where he previously found his spirit. Boy were we surprised when we found not 1, not 2, but 4 spirits sitting on pedestals, surrounded by a dome of intermingling light and darkness.

"Please tell me you guys see this too, and I'm not just imagining things." I said, blinking unbelievingly at the four spirits.

Resting on the four pedestals in the middle of the room, under the dome of light and dark, were the human and beast spirts of Light and Darkness.

"I see it, but I can't believe it. Surely it can't be this easy?" Kouji mumbled skeptically.

"Hush now, or you'll jinx it." I reprimanded him, lightly slapping his arm.

"Do we just take the spirits?" Kouichie asked.

"Guess so" Kouji shrugged. Both brothers then proceeded to hold up their D-tectors. As soon as they did that, the screens lit up and it started going crazy, blinking and beeping loudly, and then a light of fractal code left both devices, and headed straight towards the dome. Just as the fractal coded beams hit the dome, it proceeded to deteriorate, and receding to the ground, and the spirits left the confines of the pedestals and entered the twin's D-tectors. The screens on both devices lit up with the kanji symbols and images of appropriate element and spirits.

"Well that wasn't too difficult-" I started to say, but was interrupted by the ground shaking and the ceiling falling in on us.

"Let's get out of here, quickly!" Kouji commanded, grabbing my arm and running back up the stairs, Kouichie right behind us. Unfortunately, before we could get halfway up the stairs, the middle started to break apart.

"The stairs are collapsing!" I shouted in fear, as Kouji yanked us to a halt.

"Hold on, I've got this."

"I'm right behind you, brother."

EXECUTE NOW – SPRIT EVOLUTION –

"LOBOMON!"

"LOWEMON!"

"Zoe get on my back" Lobomon commanded, bending down low for me to climb on. After he secured his hands under my legs and my arms were wrapped around his neck, the two warriors proceeded to maneuver around the falling pieces of the ceiling, as well as propel themselves off of the debris to the top of the staircase, thus reaching the exit of the temple and back to the outside.

By the time we got out of the collapsed temple, the sun was setting and the twins were exhausted, thus, we decided to set up camp right there in the ruins. We split up tasks, Kouji collected wood and made a fire, Kouichie found large leaves for us to sleep on, and I looked for meat apples and water. Within an hour, we had a nice fire going, leaf beds set up, and meat apples cooking over said fire.

"Someone should keep watch throughout the night." Kouji interrupted the silence.

"I agree, I'll take first watch since you guys had to maneuver out of the temple." I volunteered.

"That's fine, I'll take second watch, and Kouichie can take third." We all agreed on this plan and, after finishing dinner, the twins went to sleep, while I stayed awake sitting by the fire for a few hours.

I thought about many things during my watch, worried about a few things too, like how are we supposed to get home? Will my spirit still be in the Breezy Village? Are Takuya and the others here? If so, are they safe and okay? I worried long into the shift before I eventually came upon a long-ignored topic – Kouji.

I've liked Kouji for a long time, ever since he saved me from Woodmon and lent me his jacket after I got my beast spirit. Even after we left the Digital World, he has always been a constant figure in my life, especially since we found out our parents were the original digidestined and close friends. We spent many a days together while our parents built a new digi-port. Needless to say, we quickly learned everything there was to know about each other. As we grew older, Kouji worried for my well-being and taught me self-defense and kendo moves for if I was ever attacked or accosted when he wasn't around. In return, I taught him some Italian and some of the schematics of the digi-port so he could keep up with the conversations around my house when he visited. We became each other's best friend, despite the fact that he was a lone wolf and I had a flighty personality.

Deeper than all of that though, my crush for him grew until I really, really liked him, which then eventually grew into Love. Yes, I admit, being in love at 17 is a little cliché and hard to understand. And many will say that I do not know what love truly is at my age, but I have been through more than most people twice my age has experienced. Heck, by the age of 12, I had turned into a digimon, saved an entire world from evil corruption, and the real world by consequence, all within a matter of seconds in our time. I fought countless battles, won some lost some, felt excruciating pain, almost died a time or two, experienced extreme climate conditions, and overcame my fears and insecurities. I watched my best friends suffer with me, and I was there to experience their greatest triumphs, their highs and lows, I know their fears and they know mine, we helped each other survive, and supported each other through some of our hardest moments. I watched Kouji fight his twin brother who was under the influence of corrupted darkness just to save him, I supported Kouji in all of his battles, and rejoiced when he was victorious, and picked him back up again when he wasn't. I know the boy, no man, greater than even his own brother, and he knows I. Even now, I watch over his sleeping body, protecting him in his sleep the only way I know how. I worry if the meat apples were enough for him, if he'll still be tired when my shift is over, and if I should let him sleep through it. I wonder if he thinks about me as often as I think of him, which is all day long and in my every dream. I may be young, and I may not know exactly what love is, but I do know, that without a doubt, I love Kouji Minamoto, unconditionally.

For the next hour or so, I allowed myself to imagine what it would be like, for Kouji to reciprocate my feelings, what it would feel like to be loved by Kouji. I allowed myself to hope. I imagined a future with him in it, and a set of twin boys with light blue hair and dark green eyes, and a little girl with blond hair and midnight blue eyes. I mused long enough that I lost track of time, and actually stayed awake through my shift and Kouji's shift, and would have gone through Kouichie's if he hadn't woken up and startled me out of my fantasy.

"You're still up?" he asked.

"Yes, I lost track of time, I guess I forgot to wake him up." I blushed, thinking about my reason for staying up.

"He'll be mad when he wakes up and realizes you stayed up through his shift and didn't wake him."

"I know, but he'll get over it, he always does." I whispered softly. Kouichie shook his head, smiling faintly at me with that smile that says he knows everything.

"Go get some sleep Zoe, I'll take watch the rest of the night." I yawned and shivered, just now realizing how tired I am, and how chilly the night air is. I sluggishly moved towards the pile of leaves, and fell haphazardly next to Kouji, laying close enough next to him that I could feel his body heat, but not to where I could touch him or wake him with my presence. As it is, Kouji shifted closer in his sleep, the back of his hand, brushed up my arm and stopped to rest at the back of my neck, where his fingers wove into my blonde hair. My face and neck heated up with a furious blush at his subconscious actions. Eventually I fell asleep to the soothing actions of his fingers in my hair.

"They love each other so much, it's obvious for everyone to see but themselves. So why can't they just admit it?"