Digimon Memorial

by Ceillising

Basically a personal sequel to Digimon Frontier

1. Episode 1 to 9

Episode 1 Express to the Digital World

Far away from Shibuya, Tokyo, one of the great angles took out to the digital world with fear. True, the digital world is back to how it was before, so normal that chaos is once again rising upon the land. Lucemon is gone, purified, but who does this new drop of shadow belong to?

"Lady Ophanimon, we cannot wait any longer. The digital world must be once again restored." He said to the figure behind him. She could not be seen from the distance. Only light traveled a small amount across the room.

"I have already called upon them," Ophanimon said, gripping on to Takuya's version of a D-tector tightly. "This time new digidestineds will be chosen. I will not allow them to face our problems for us. We can't always risk their lives, Seraphimon."

"I understand. So who are these new humans you have chosen?" Seraphimon was eager to see more abilities from humans.

"You'll see." Ophanimon approached closer to the window. "Who'd know humans are so talented?"

Back in Shibuya, a soccer game occurs in Yoyogi Park, one of the largest parks in Tokyo. As he slides the ball away from the opponent, a fourteen-year-old soccer player on the green team scores a goal, winning for the eight time in a row. While the team cheers with joy, the boy sat down on the bench, letting the sweat slip down to his towel around his neck. He leaned back and closed his eyes. No sooner did the Palm Pilot in his bag begin to ring.

"Huh?" he said to himself in surprise. There was nothing else he had planned for the rest of the day; he knew the alarm shouldn't have gone off. The device continued to ring. "Alright, I'll see what you have to say having a mind of your own." When he took it out, a voice came out from the device.

"Suoh Takahashi, it is time." It said.

"What? Who are you and…how'd you know my name?" Suoh looked around to see if anyone heard it too; apparently not. He gazed back at his Palm. "How….how are you doing this?"

"Destiny awaits, Suoh. The digital world needs you. Do you accept this challenge?" The voice was Ophanimon, but even Suoh didn't know what she was asking, or who she was. Without thinking, he accepted the job. "You are fortunate to be the chosen one, Suoh. Go to the underground train station in Shibuya by 5:00pm. The train will take you there. Remember Suoh, the train will leave on time." The screen went blank as it continued to show the current time, 11:48am. Whatever it was about, Suoh would do it."

About fourteen miles away in Kamakura, a young ninja meditates outside of the Myoryuji Temple. The Myoruji Temple is used to train students to becoming a ninja. IT is surrounded with Maple Trees and a road that leads to urban areas. Sitting by the river next to the temple, a girl reaches out to answer her cell phone.

"Icria Minamoto, it is time to decide your future." Ophanimon called out from the RAZR.

"What?" she surprisingly responded. Icria rarely trusted people, and avoided strangers to even those who she can trust. "How will you decide my future?" There was a short pause in the conversation.

"You are strong, Icira…just like your brothers…"

"What!? Brothers? What do you know?" Icria remembered how she grew up as an only child. Hearing or talking about her brothers in the past makes her furious. "IS there something else you would like to share about my personal life?" she growled.

"Destiny, your families…take the underground train in Shibuya by 5:00pm today. The digital world depends on you, Icria. Your brothers would be proud." As Ophanimon's voice dies, only the swift water flowing down the mountains could be heard. Still, Icria continues to stare at her phone, deciding to go or not.

`Meanwhile in Shinjuku, another teenager receives a message from Ophanimon during a walk in the park. A unfamiliar voice suddenly came out from his watch walkie talkie as Ophanimon's symbol appeared on the screen.

"Haruki Tsukino, it is time. Do you accept the challenge to decide on your future?"

"Future…of what?" Haruki replied calmly to the stranger, hoping she was talking to someone else.

"The digital world depends on you. Please restore the peace lost to our enemy. I, Ophanimon, one of the protectors of the digital world have called upon heroes from your world to help stop evil from ruling our world. Will you accept this challenge?" Haruki smiled.

"Just name it." Haruki had always accepted any challenge.

"Very well, Haruki. Go to the underground train in Shibuya by 5:00pm."

"Shibuya?" he said softly to himself after the symbol on his watch disappeared. "Why there?"

Another girl not far away received the same message no later than Haruki had.

"Kris Yamagata, it is time."

"Hm? What kind of song knows my name?" Kris browsed through her list of songs on her iPod.

"Do you want to decide on your future?" Ophanimon continued.

"Well, if you say so…as long as I'm not going to be sucked into the iPod myself."

"Take the underground train at Shibuya by 5:00pm. Don't worry, you won't be alone." A few seconds later, the voice disappeared.

"Well, if I'm not the only one who had a stranger talk through their iPod…" Kris said as she left her house.

"For once, I'm glad I'm in Shibuya for once…Or I'd be lost." Suoh said as he was walking to the station at 4:50. A train pulled up on the right platform as he entered the building. Icria stepped out.

This is great…she thought sarcastically. Feeling lost, she came into sight of Suoh. He was walking towards a small elevator at the corner of the stair case. No doubt he's going where I'm going. She ran until she was right next to Suoh, waiting for the elevator. Suoh looked at her.

"So…you got the message?" he asked her, but the only response was a short glance, then stared back at the elevator. As the doors opened, she quickly walked in. Suoh took his time following Icria.

"I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to know." Suoh continued as the elevator went down. She just smiled. Suoh continued to stare at her. "What?" wondering what's funny. Suddenly, the elevator shook and changed speed as if the wire holding the elevator broke. Suoh didn't hold onto the rail which caused him to fall on the floor once it stopped. Icria ignored him and stepped out. No one was here, only one train in from of them stood. The clock above them showed 4:58 when the both ran to the train.

The doors were shut a minute after they were on board. It wasn't empty; two other kids were there too. The train continued to move, but none of the spoke a word. A boy in red sat calmly in a row of seats. Another girl sat across from him while Suoh stand. She looked at both boys and gave a sigh.

"If none of you are going to say anything, I'll start." she said out loud so everyone could hear. They all looked at her, waiting for what she was trying to do. She got up from her seat. "I'm Kris. I came from America, but for now I live in Shinjuku." The boy made a small smile.

"I'm Haruki. I also came from Shinjuku. Actually, we both met each other at the Shinjuku station." he said looking at Kris.

"Okay then…I'm Suoh. I'm staying here in Shibuya for the summer, but I live in Shinjuku too." After he spoke, everyone gazed upon the last girl.

"Aren't you going to introduce yourself?" Kris asked?" Kris asked.

"Right. Like she could even say a word before." Suoh said sarcastically, giving a evil stare at Icria.

"Do I have to?" Icria replied looking up at him. "You don't control my life. I'll introduce myself when I want to." she continued as she walked across the room, coming to a stop at Suoh. "You can't trust everyone…"

"WWWWOOAAAHH!" the train blew. "Next stop, Forest Terminal!" At the end of the tunnel, a bright light blinded the world for a few seconds. The sky was clear as the train rode on floating tracks. Kris gazed happily at flying jelly-looking marshmallows floating by the train. They smiled joyfully as the raced to the end of the line.

The train came to a stop by a sign that said "Forest Terminal." On the platform, three unfamiliar figures stood there waiting for their arrival. The door swings open, bursting as they walked out of the train.

"Welcome to the digital world. This world is filled with Digimons, digital creatures made up of data." she said as the smoke cleared their view. "I am Lady Ophanimon." Haruki, standing behind Suoh, recognized her voice.

"You're the one who sent us the messages…" he spoke.

"Correct. The digital world needs your help, all of you."

Emerging from Ophanimon's right was another powerful Digimon.

"We are chosen as the great celestial Digimon, protectors of this world. Even us: Cherubimon, Ophanimon, and I, Seraphimon, cannot stop some disasters happening in the digital world. That's why we have the ten legendary warriors."

"The ten legendary warriors each possess a differently element. Together, they are undefeatable. Children from the past had bonded with them to defeat Lucemon, a peaceful Digimon until he became obsessed with his power. All of you are the next generation of digidestends. You all must work together to defeat anything that comes in your path." said Cherubimon.

"And that's where we are now. You four are chosen to do many great things in this world. Now, the spirits of the ten legendary warriors belongs to you." Ophanimon continued as she paused for a few seconds. During that time, Kris spoke.

"So…we're the …'digidestineds?'" Kris quoted. "Do we get a prize?" Kris asked happily, but Icria interrupted.

"Spirits. But why us?" she asked Ophanimon.

"You have all been chosen according to your unique abilities and relationship to the past digidestineds. Like every team, you will face difficult decisions and tragic sacrifices. All of you are ready to start?" Ophanimon looked at the group of children, thinking maybe they're still too clueless. However, Suoh looked up brightly to accept his destiny. Everyone followed Suoh; they all shined with the spirits of the ten legendary warriors reflecting behind them.

"You're spirits are difficult to control. Remember who your friends and enemies are. Now, hold out your devices."

"Our what?" Suoh didn't carry much in his pocket, afraid that he forgot it.

"I think she means what got us here. You know, what she sent the messages through." Kris whispered to Suoh, showing him her iPod. Suoh took out his PDA, hoping it was the right one.

"Fire and Thunder!" Ophanimon called out. A red and yellow ball was blasted out of her hand to Suoh's PDA.

"Earth and Water." Cherubimon fired a brown and blue ball at Kris and absorbed into her iPod.

"Ice..."

"Wind…" Ophanimon and Seraphimon gave it into Haruki's watch.

"Light!"

"Darkness!" Seraphimon and Cherubimon tried not to let the spirits touch each other incase the power combustion. They were thrown in different directions but still landed in Icria's phone.

'These spirits are not a toy. You must keep them near you at all times or evil will use them against you." Seraphimon warned. Ophanimon continued their warning.

"Your spirits are your ticket to the digital world. You can enter the digital world again in the Shibuya station or the same way how a Digimon might come to the real world. And by luck, you may be able to enter the digital world from a digital device."

"Wait. Are you saying that Digimon can enter our world too?" Kris asked. The angels were quiet for a second.

"They might." Cherubimon answer. "The Digimon here are becoming more powerful. Legend has it that Digimon can't survive in the real world. But when Lucemon was able to, more Digimon had attempted to reach your world."

"The important thing is…both worlds depend on you." Ophanimon calmly changed the topic. "Return to your world for now. The Trailmon will take you back home. Or as you would think, the train that got you here."

"Yeah, think I'm just a talking train?" he shouted. The kdis were a bit freaked out, but Icria kept her eyes on the protectors. The angels walked away from the station, leaving the digidestineds nothing to do but to go back.

Just a few moments later, part of the terminal caught on fire. A flaming lion came out from the flame, chasing two small digimon running towards them.

"You nincompoop! Must you get every digimon mad?" one of them shouted.

"Only the one that look fun to play with!" the other digimon replied running for its life.

"You men the big, scary, mean, tough ones!" By the time they arrived at Suoh's feet, they fell to the floor.

"Hey look, it's Koji."

"What?" he looked at Icria. "That's not Koji you idiot! Although…they do look alike. Oh my, but they're humans. They've returned!" He started to cry and hugged Suoh's leg.

"Wow Takuya, you've gotten a lot taller." He said staring at Suoh.

"They're not the same human!" He pulled on his pants as it snapped him. "I'm sorry. He's always like this. I'm Bokumon and he's Neemon." Bokomon turned around to look at the digimon in flames. "And we got a mad Lynxmon on our tails."

"We don't have tails." Neemon pointed out.

"It was an expression you nincompoop! Oh please, I know you guys can defeat him. Just like our old friends of the past." Bokomon grabbed onto Suoh's pants. In his mind, Bokomon had a feeling that they too possess the spirits of the ten legendary warriors.

"A winner never runs." Suoh said as he was looking at Lynxmon. "Come on guys, Ophanimon said that both worlds depend on us. I think we need a small warm up." He smiled at the others. "Let's save the world." Suoh walked closer to Lynxmon.

"Spirits…I must destroy!" Lynxmon shouted as she ran towards Suoh.

"You're not doing this alone." Kris said as she and Haruki joined in standing in front of Lynxmon. Icria looked at her phone one more time, then shoved it in her pocket and joined the battle. The four digidestineds stood there ready to take the attack together. Lynxmon jumped high above them, gathering her power for a final blow.

"Thermal Mane!"

Episode 2 Feel My Burn! Rise of Diosmon

All of Lynxmon's energy focuses on that attack. Luckly, the digidestineds were able to avoid it.

"That's some power!" Suoh gazed upon the spot where he was standing. When Lynxmon wasn't looking, Kris jumped on her back.

"Just like riding a horse. Can't get me now!" she teased. Lynxmon ran in circles to shake her off.

"Then try to avoid this!" The flames on Lynxmon's body begun to burn; Kris had to get off. Haruki ran towards Lynxmon with a metal pole he found on the ground. Before he could smack Lynxmon's paw, she already had avoided it.

"Wild nail..rush!" Lynxmon strike Haruki, but Icria threw two kunai at her paw.

"Where'd you get those?" Haruki ask staring at her kunai.

"Do you really have to ask? I'm a ninja, of course I have'em. What's up with you guys? Trying to act cool or something? Jumping on top of a cat and smacking her with a rusted pole?" Icria replied snobbery, taking out another kunai from her pocket and spinning it around her finger.

"I take martial arts ..." Kris replied. "Took them since I was only six."

"Kendo class, every day. I think it's you who needs to chill; we're supposed to work together." Haruki explained after Kris. Icria just shook her head.

"You guys couldn't possibly get any lamer…" she insulted. When all three of them were arguing, Lynxmon took a direct hit. It was impossible to break free from the fire that surrounded them. Suoh, Bokomon, and Neemon watched from behind Lynxmon in fear.

"They're going to be burnt to dust!" Bokomon screamed. "Aren't you going to do something?!" he shouted at Suoh.

"What you want me to turn into fried chicken with them?" Suoh acted confused. His new buddies are being toasted while he watched from behind. Soon he didn't even realized why he got into this mess. I should've had stayed in Shibuya… Suoh thought to himself. But when he stared deeper into the fire surrounding his friends, he felt as if he was the only one who could stop it. Not Ophanimon or anyone else; mom and dad aren't here to baby sit you, and neither is the fireman.

"You guys stay here." Suoh ran towards the fire.

"Don't worry! We won't move one bit!" Bokomon shouted, still afraid of Lynxmon. On his way towards the flames, Suoh kicked one of Lynxmon's paws to stop her from attacking. The fire died off and amazingly, none of them were hurt.

"You guys ok?" Suoh asked when he stood by them.

"Nothing damaged, but how?" Haruki replied.

"You can find out once you try it again. Unless you want to die on your first trip to the digital world, you should surrender your spirits now!" Lynxmon laughed.

"That's not going to happen." Suoh stood up. "We may not know what the spirits are for, but we know they don't belong to you! You surrender! If you want then so badly, then they must be important, kept by only those who can be trusted. And it's obvious you can't be trusted! All of us were chosen for a reason, and not anybody else, cause we are the digidestineds!"

"Yuuzen! I don't need a reminder from weak humans!" Lynxmon attacked them again.

I won't lose to you… Suoh struggled through her attack. When he opened his eyes, he could see something bright in front of him, a spirit. All of Lynxmon's power drained into an unknown warrior standing in Suoh's place.

"Spirit…" Lynxmon looked surprised. "Looks like you've finally worked it out. I'm glad you decided to surrender."

"Never!" He responded. "It's just the opposite. Blazing wind!" His fist punched Lynxmon with a much more powerful fire.

"Strong, but you're still just a rookie. Wild nail rush!" Lynxmon's attack sent in breaking through two trees. "Human or Digimon, you're still a dead mouse."

"The name's Diosmon, and you're as dead as a pile of dust going in flames!" A massive fire started, surrounding Diosmon's body. "You won't harm anything anymore! Wildfire blitz!" The fire covered Lynxmon, and her fractal code showed, a sign of victory. Diosmon fell to the ground, turning back into Suoh.

"Wow, that was tough…" he said taking deep breathes. "I hope everyday isn't going to be like this…"

The kids got back on the train to home, waving good bye to Bokomon and Neemon.

"We'll look forward to seeing you guys some time again!" Bokomon waved

good-bye. When they arrived back at the station, it was an hour past, the station was almost empty.

"We better go home. I think we've been out too long at this late." Kris smiled. "And if your parents ask, just say you were out saving the world. Just kidding." Kris and Haruki walked to the next train to go back to Shinjuku.

"Yeah, that was some adventure…" Suoh walked down the stairs out of the station. Icria stood in the same spot, not knowing where to go. She turn towards Suoh's direction, then looked back at Kris and Haruki.

"Hold on." she finally said. They all paused. "I'm…Icria. Sorry I didn't tell you guys before. I come from Kamakura, but...I'm not planning to go back anytime soon. That's all you need to know for now. This digital world business means a lot to our lives, I can feel it. " Icria walked out of the station, passing Suoh. Everyone just watched her.

"Well, at least she trusts us now." said Haruki.

"Yeah, but what keeping her down?" Kris continued. When all of them reached home, there was a question raised above for each and every digidestined.

"Kris! You know you should have been helping us move in the rest of the stuff. Where have you've been?" Kris' mom asked.

"Mom, I just needed to help a friend get her computer working. I promise I'll help out tomorrow, k?" Kris slowly backed away upstairs into her room. That was a close one…

"Suoh, where did you go for so long?" his dad asked.

"Wha? Oh, well, I just wanted to hang out with a bunch of friends after the game. Three to zero ya know? Hehe…." Suoh crept into his room while his dad continued to watch baseball on TV.

"Hey, what were you doing? Going out with another girl?" his cousin teased.

"Zoe...You know, the usual. Just having some adventure." Haruki walked upstairs.

"Not really, usually you go out dating a different girl every week." Zoe walked upstairs with him "Who's the lucky girl this time?"

"Zoe, I told you, I'm not dating anyone, I'm not crushing on anyone..." Haruki climbed in his bed. At least, I don't think so…

Icria walked into the playground of Yoyogi Park. She climbed on top of the slide, and fell asleep. Mom, dad…I'll find you someday…I still have my memories to lead me the way.

Episode 3 Chrysalimon's Furry, Koorimon Breaks the Ice

If it wasn't for double practice this week, I would be taking a vacation in the digital world, Suoh though. Because he won the game yesterday before going to the digital world, the coach wants the team to be in good shape and not underestimate their next opponent, bringing in extra practice for a week. I wonder what the others are doing…

"Bye mom!" Kris quickly headed for the door when she got up in the morning.

"Hold it! Remember, you promised to help us move in today since you were out all day yesterday doing who knows what." Kris's mom stated while unloading items in the garage.

"Kirai desu, not on a new day of adventure in the digital world…"

Meanwhile, Icria traveled alone in the digital world for a while. Only a few steps away from Forest Terminal lay Seraphimon's castle. When Bokomon and Neemon were able to catch up, they helped explain and answer more of her questions in the digital world.

"And that's Seraphimon's castle. All rooms are beautifully made of crystals." Bokomon pointed to the castle, explaining to Icria. "By the way, I don't think we quite got your name yet." It took seconds before Icria replied.

"Icria," Her eyes were still observing the castle when she spoke.

"Icria… you like to go on your own a lot huh? A digidestined of the past was just like you, probably why Neemon misjudged you for Koji. It took a while for Koji to get along with the rest of us. Maybe because his family was finally completed again." Bokomon starred at the castle with her, not realizing that Icria grew a temper. "I'm sure after your adventure you'll…"

"What do you know about Koji and Koichi?! Were…they once in the digital world?" Icria calmed down a bit.

"What do you know about them? Amazing how this has a connection…" Bokomon softly replied.

"It's nothing. I guess it wouldn't matter if I were their sister or not." Neemon glared at the castle with Bokomon. Not wanting to say more, Icria walked away from them.

"Let's play tag!" Neemon finally awoke from the castle's shinny spell.

"Not now Neemon! Do you know what this means!? Koji and Koichi have a sister that they don't know about!" Bokomon snapped Neemon's pants.

"Then do ya think Takuya and Tommy would like to play tag?"

"I dunno why I even know you, Neemon…" They both walked back towards Forest Terminal.

While Icria stopped running away from them, she had a short vision happening outside of Seraphimon's castle.

"Oh my, what a delightful place to destroy those kiddies!"

"They won't know what hit them, right Mercurymon?"

"They shall know pain, that I promise."

Icria gasped at their words when she came back to staring at the ground. Who were they?

"You okay, princess?" A voice called from behind her. "Icria right?" Haruki! Icria denied his appearance.

"You need something?"

"Only know a pretty girl when I see one." Icria paused.

"Are you hitting on me? Look…Haruki, if you ever come down to asking me out, forget it."

"What wrong with saying 'you're pretty?' I just don't want you to feel left out."

"Well I'm not." But inside Icria knew she didn't completely agree on joining the new group of idiots. However she allowed Haruki to follow her around the forest. Not knowing Seraphimon was away at a meeting, Sorcermon opened the door at their arrival.

Are you the new digidestineds?" Sorcermon asked opening the door half way. "Please, feel free to visit anytime." He opened both doors widely, knowing that he could trust the humans.

"This place is nice," Icria politely commented.

"The digital world and your world are in danger of any kind of destruction. It is important that both of you know what you're up against." Sorcermon explained.

"Soo…What's behind the walls?" Haruki asked.

"Nothing, but I fear a dark source is about to rise below these grounds, I can feel it. Evil rises everywhere at anytime."

"The ground? Why can't you do something about it? You got it surrounded in the castle."

"It could be anything: as strong as the great Lucemon, or just a tiny virus digimon. Nothing should be put at stake." Suddenly, the whole castle shook. "The time has come…" Sorcermon flew in the air and got into battle position.

A group of rope-like arms busted directly from below their feet. The crystals off of the ground were pushed back, making them all slide to the ground. However, Icria did a quick hand stand and got back on her feet. No later did one of them ropes slap her against the walls. During her unconsciousness, it wrapped around her body and took her as hostage. Sorcermon swore to protect the digidestineds at that time.

"Crystal Cloud!" Sorcermon fired ice shards from his staff into the deep hole. They waited for a response.

"Data Crusher…" a dark voice spoke when launching a ball of yellow energy from its mouth. Sorcermon was too knocked back to the walls, showing his fractal code. The digimon's body slowly crawled out of the hole. Chrysalimon: a champion level digimon that loves to absorb and destroy data. At first he stared at Sorcermon, ready to take his data. He was interrupted when Haruki struggled to get Icria free from his arm.

"Let go of her…stupid over-grown spider." Haruki shouted. Thinking of Haruki's weakness, he flung Haruki away with another arm while squeezing Icria tighter. When he heard her scream, Haruki felt that he needed to stop Chrysalimon, but was too weak against him. He needed power to stop him before he turns Icria into fresh data. His anger let out a feeling of strength, releasing the spirit of ice and wind.

"Excute!" he screamed. "Evolution!" The blue light shining from his pain revealed a young knight, Koorimon.

"I ask you again, let her go." Koorimon hand his hands ready to pull out his sword if he denied it. Chrysalimon did ignore his request, and squeezed Icria as tight as he could. This time Icria's scream caused Sorcermon to wake up, and to be heard from the celestial angels. Sparks of energy flashed around Chrysalimon's arm. He was squeezing so hard that he was hurting himself. However, Chrysalimon didn't seem to care.

"Icria!" Koorimon took out his sword and cut off one of Chrysalimon's arm nearest to him. Then he slashed off another that busted in the air until he could get to the one holding Icria.

"Data Crusher!" Chrysalimon attacked with only two arms left.

"Icria, you ok?" When Koorimon finally reached her, he was knocked against the wall, away from his target. Sorcermon got up and froze half of Chrysalimon's body before he could take his next move on Koorimon. With the last arm, he wrapped around Sorcermon's body, leaving himself defenseless.

"Crystal Slash!" Koorimon shouted, running towards Chrysalimon and injecting his sword into his body. Chrysalimon froze, and his fractal code appeared.

"This virus's going in the bin. Fractal code…digitize!" Koorimon scanned Chrysalimon's code into his palm, releasing Sorcermon and Icria who were dangling in the air. Still feeling weak from Chrysalimon's grip, Icria was unable to stand from her fall. But right after Haruki was himself again, he caught her in his arms.

"Need a ride?"

After returning back to the real world, Icria walked around Shinjuku with Haruki.

"Why don't you stay with us at my house?" Haruki asked after hearing that Icria has no palce to stay.

"No thanks. I need to find my family as soon as I can. I don't even know which town their in." Icria replied.

"So why don't we both look around Shinjuku tomorrow? But for now you need food and…"

"When I was separated, I was taught how to survive in the wild alone." Icria stopped in front of Haruki's door.

"The city isn't a jungle, you can't make or find food around here; you have to buy them."

"Look, thanks for trying to help, but I need to do this alone." She turned around and continues to walk down the street. "I'll be fine…"

Well, I'm going to help, whether you want me to or not…he thought.

"Haruki!!! You're gonna tell me why you're coming home so late recently! I mean yesterday you were out like all day and today you even missed dinner! You're hiding something, tell me." Zoe demanded.

"Why would I? Just cause you're my cousin doesn't mean that I trust you. Even if I did tell you, you wouldn't understand. You'll just ask a ton of questions like all nosey girls do." He shouted back at Zoe while eating leftover food in the fridge.

"Well, I have a secret too. Of course it's not like I can't tell, it just that it's for safety not to tell. I'll tell ya mine if you tell me your's."

"Zoe, would you believe me if I told you I got sent to this digital world and I'm turning into these crazy data monsters saving other crazy data monsters?"

"What!? Haruki, do you mean…the digital world? You've been going to the digital world all this time?" Haruki stopped eating.

"Do you know something about this?"

"You've got to be kidding. Not only was that the secret I was going to tell you too, but seriously, you went back to the digital world? You mean we can go back!? I can't believe it! I could see them again!"

"So you were there before too, huh?"

"Well yeah, me and a bunch of friends I met on the train went there about a year ago. You know, saving the world and stuff, becoming the digidestineds. I can't believe it! You are going to take me there tomorrow right?"

"Um, no. Tomorrow I'm helping out with something."

"Like what? Dating again?"

"Zoe, I'm telling you I don't have a girlfriend."

"Well, while you're on your date, I'll ask someone in your team to take me. By the way, who is in your team?"

"Suoh who's in Shibuya, Kris somewhere moving into Shinjuku, and Icria that's…well, from Kamakura. Ok, Zoe, leave me alone." Haruki dumped the dishes into the sink and walked upstairs. Zoe continued to bother Haruki for the night about going to the digital world.

"So, this Icria person's you're new girlfriend?"

"What makes you think that?"

"You stumbled on your words when you were describing her."

"She's just…not the kind that you can talk to easily." Haruki was about to go to his room to sleep. Knowing that Zoe was a digidestined of the past, he asked her one more thing.

"Zoe, in your group, was there someone name Koji or Koichi?"

"Um, yeah. They were twins."

"Do you know where they live?"

"Not really, after seeing Koichi in the hospital, we all didn't exactly meet up again. But I think they're living around Shinjuku."

"Okay then, thanks Z."

Icria continued to wander in the streets, passing by a house that she thought saw Kris in. Just a few blocks away was Shinjuku Park, her next stay for the night.

Episode four Revolution! Magiemonʼs Rebellion!

"Honestly Suoh why do you bother trying to catch up with me?" asked Kris as her classmate collapsed on the ground.

"Mark my words, Kris Yamagata! I will beat you in a foot race!" he declared boldly while pointing his index finger to the sky. She scoffed.

"Yeah in like a million years when WE'RE DEAD!" The teacher told the class to go the locker rooms to get changed. Kris sighed and grabbed her Gatorade bottle from her backpack. In one gulp she nearly emptied the bottle.

"Ahh. now that's the stuff." Ignoring the stares of the nearby students she scurried off to her next class.

Icriaʼs trail of deep thought was brutally interrupted slid into the seat next to her. "Sup, Icria!" she cheered holding out her hand. Icria ignored her hand and continued working. "Someoneʼs cranky. Is it because of yesterday's incident with Haruki at the D-world?" she asked curiously.

"That is none of your business." she replied. The teacher came in commanding the class to quiet down. Kris folded her arms on the desk and rested her head in the tiny hole.

"U.S History is soo boring! I learned all this when I was in 4th grade." she blurted a little too loudly. The teacher stopped his lecture.

"Is that so Miss. Yamagata? Maybe we should get you teach the class." Kris bowed.

"I'm terribly sorry, sir. I did not mean to say that aloud." Icria chuckled.

The American girl is pretty hilarious, she thought.

"NO. I insist why don't you teach today," he said glaring at her intently. Kris groaned and rose from her seat. "Why don't you first explain to us about the first amendment?" Kris quickly recited from her textbook.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." she stated.

"And what does that tell us?" he teased. Icria rose from her seat.

"It simply means that everyone has the right to speak at their own will. Therefore, humiliating Kris-san would be unnecessarily unfair and against her rights." Icria was staring seriously at the teacher.

"It seems so Miss. Minamoto. However, we are not in the United States and we do not have these rights." Before Icria could tackle him back, the bell had rung and everyone had dismissed themselves.

"Thanks, you've completely saved me," Kris squealed while attempting to hug Icria. She pushed back.

"Whatever. It's not like you couldn't have made it worse," she sighed slinging her backpack over her shoulder.

"Hey, I'm a born protester," Kris stated proudly.

"Aren't all Americans, protesters?" she said rolling her eyes. "Isn't that what they've been doing these past couple hundred years...fighting about idiotic things?" Kris shrugged.

"Well, they're just standing up for what they believe in. There's nothing wrong with that right? Besides, whatever you hear about Americans that isn't from another American is probably just another dumb stereotype. I mean c'mon People just because I'm a blonde doesn't mean I'm a stupid cheerleader." Icria curved her lips into a tiny grin.

"Well, school's out. Where are you gonna go?" Kris asked getting her skateboard from her backpack.

"Where I go is none of your business." Kris dropped her skateboard on the ground and stepped on the end with the tip of her foot.

"You're going to look for your family right?" Icria shot her a glare.

"Loverboy told me. And don't think I asked either." She cleared her throat and said in a Haruki-like voice with air quotes.

"He said 'I had to know.ʼ Insert something about strengthening the team or something dumb like that. I wasn't really paying attention. But hey since I know where you're going and are most likely gonna follow you, why don't you come to Narnia with me." she joked.

"Narnia?" said Icria raising an eyebrow.

"It's a book. You know? The Chronicles of Narnia?" Icria shook her head.

"For Pete's sake it's not even an American book. It's a British book."

As the two neared the train station, Icria felt someone cover her eyes with their hands.

"Whoever this is get your slimy hands off me or so help me I will push you in front of the train." she threatened.

"I see the Ice Queen is still...the Ice Queen." said a familiar voice. Icriaʼs once dark eyes where now filled with light as the culprit took her hands off her face.

"Miss us?" said Haruki. Kris scoffed.

"You wish. Don't you two have to chase a black and white ball today? The last time I checked the soccer team has practice every day." She slammed her foot on the end of the skateboard causing it to shoot up a couple inches so Kris could catch it in her hand.

"The last time I checked, girls don't ride skateboards." retorted Suoh. Kris gasped.

"Brilliant observation, Suoh. I'm so proud of you." she shot back sarcastically.

"Soccer club is cancelled. Coachʼs girlfriend's dog died. He's at the funeral." said Haruki. Suoh scoffed.

"That dog was getting annoying. Always chasing us and, what not. Last time I saw that dog it bit my finger."

"Who the hell holds a funeral for their dog?!" Icria and Kris shout at the same time.

"So are you guys going to go to the Digital world today?" asked Suoh.

"I probably can. I just wanna check up on Bokomon and Neemon though. See how my homies are." Everyone gave Kris a "WTF?" look.

"I'm just kidding. Only losers talk like that."

Episode five Mood Much Gal, Defender of Light

The next day after Kris got her spirit working, the team decided on going to the digital world together to learn to control their spirits more. Today's training destination: the Gotsumon village. The same Gotsumon Koji met a year ago continued to ask questions when the gang rested in their rocky hideouts.

"So tell me, is Koji ok?" he asked fetching them some water. Icria and Haruki ignored his question. Secretly Haruki knew more than she did.

"Actually, we didn't exactly have contact with any other digidestineds except Zoe, and that's only because Haruki's her cousin." Suoh explained.

"So you guys don't even have an idea of what you're doing here?" Gotsumon felt hopeless when Kris replied no. Even if Ophanimon and the rest of the celestial digimons explained it all, nothing made sense. Only the fact that they need to be here for an important mission kept them going. Fractal codes, digivices, digiports, and just digimon didn't make any sense.

"You're holding the spirits of the ten legendary warriors and you don't even know what they are?!" Gotsumon screamed again.

""Calm down. At least we know it's important and nobody should get a hold of it except us." Haruki replied slowly. "We're all here for a reason. In the past we never fought a battle together. We always went our own paths to unleash the spirits. Well now all of us are here to do it as a team." Silence was upon the group until Haruki finished his statement. "We're all here to learn."

When the sun aimed in the center of the sky, the Gotsumon gathered up meatapples and returned under the rocks. The Gotsumon they know of threw them a couple.

"If you're here to save the world, then why are you still sitting around?" he stubbornly asked going back outside in the heat.

"Um… are these suppose to be editable?" Suoh asked holding up a meatapple. "It's gray…" At that moment Icria had another vision.

"It's a meatapple, boy: all the nutritious meat you can get." Bokomon took one and started to eat with Neemon who was eating three apples. Icria thought she had heard an echo. She ignored it.

"So, after lunch we do some major action?" Kris asked in the silent party.

"I'm not sure if I can even do it again, but it's worth a shot." Suoh had already finished his lunch. "Icria, stay here until we get back."

"What? You think just because I didn't spirit evolve yet I'm not strong enough to take a step outside?" Icria replied angrily.

"Maybe if you got along with us more you would have already gotten your spirit."

"I swear that when I get my spirit…"

"Icria, Suoh, you don't need to argue in this." Haruki broke them up.

"It's just not safe, so do us a favor and stay here."

"So I don't have a part in this?"

"You're a digidestined now. You need to know when there's a time to let others do the job."

"Since who elected you goggle head of the day? I don't need a team to survive." Icria ditched the team and went outside on her own. Nobody followed until minutes later.

Hours had pass and the three wandered across the tall grass.

"Forget it. She probably went back to Shinjuku." Suoh said sitting on the rock where Gigasmon once stood. "We wasted enough time looking for emo-girl. Let's just start practicing on our spirit evolving."

"Allow me to assist. Metal Smirk Bomb!" The moment the kids turned around they were hit by an energy blast. "Rumor has it that some kids hold the next generation of the ten legendary warriors. Cough it up. You can't beat MetalMamemon."

"Wow, we get popular fast…"Kris coughed.

"It's target practice time." Suoh summoned his fractal code out of his hand and scanned it on his digivice/PDA. Kris and Haruki got up and did the same.

"Execute!" They all shouted. "Evolution!"

"Diosmon!"

"Koorimon!"

"Magiemon!"

"Not bad. Metal Claw!" MetalMamemon jumped from behind Magiemon and slashed her from the back. Before she could turn around she was hit directly, barely able keep up her flight.

"Crystal Slash!" Koorimon had a swoard fight with MetalMamemon's claw. Unfortunately MetalMamemon fired from his cannon on his other arm and hit Koorimon.

"Blazing Wind!" Diosmon attacked with a flaming from Koorimon, Diosmon's attack knocked MetalMamemon into the tall grass.

"Now where's that metal head?" Koorimon shouted. All three stood back-to-back waiting for MetalMamemon to show up.

"You know Icria, spirit or no spirit, your friends need your help down there." Bokomon stated, looking across the battle from a tree. Icria stood on a high branch where Bokomons standing. She ignored his call and watched closely at the fight.

"Give it up!" MetalMamemon called from an unknown area. Diosmon looked up and MetalMamemon's cannon was aimed directly above them. A gust of wind rose upon Bokomon and Neemon's feet.

"Oh, I can't watch!" Bokomon screamed as the force of the attack nearly blew them away.

"There's nothing to be afraid of. He's not as swift as he looks. They're just not fast enough to see pass those basic moves." Icria continued to stare at the battle.

"Then you will do something?" Bokomon asked.

The warriors' fractal codes were shown. Unable to move, MetalMamemon was about to steal six out of the ten spirits. The digital world's last chance of survival was about to be lost.

"Well, this wasn't much of a challenge." MetalMamemon pointed his hand towards Diosmon.

"How boring…"Icria was magically standing behind MetalMamemon without him noticing. "Do you even have the skills of being a digimon?"

"Just because you were able to come behind my back once…" MetalMamemon pause and quickly swung around to slash Icria. She had already made a jump, missing MetalMamemon's attack, and now ready for action.

"Not defense, speed. I'll show you what a true digimon, warrior of light can do against a metal teme!"

"Wait, who are you calling a teme?" Icria took out her cell phone and slashed the fractal code off of her hand.

"Excute! Evolution!"

"Aeromon!' The new warrior of light and darkness pointed her silver staff at MetalMamemon. "Who else? There's only one teme standing in front of me."

"Metal Claw!"

Aeromon quickly avoided it and duplicated herself to five.

"Moonlight's Shadow! Now give me your best shot." All five Aeromons surrounded MetalMamemon, awaiting his next move. Feeling a bit scared, Metalmamemon fired his next move with little hope.

"M…Metal…"

"Solar Flare!" All five Aeromons called out, pointing their staff at MetalMamemon and imprisoned him in a ball of light. As soon as Aeromon was one again, MetalMamemon's fractal code appeared.

"You may be swift like a ninja, but you can't outrun the light." Aermon scanned his data into her staff. "Fractal code…digitize!" As soon as the land was quiet, everyone become speechless of Icria's performance.

"Well, either way, there's no reason to argue now." said Suoh. Icria ignored his apology and spoke randomly.

"Well, dinner's probably getting told, at least for you guys. Let's go back, we'll train another day." she smiled. Everyone found that it was a strange behavior for her, but Haruki knew soon everything would change.

"Haruki, where are we going?" Icria asked when Haruki started to drag her around town. "You should go back home, it's getting late." She stared at her phone which said 6:56pm.

"Not yet. Icria, you've been outside here too long. If you're searching for your family, then that's what I'd do for you." Haruki held her hand tighter as they stopped at the corner of a white house.

"Really Haruki, I'll find them on my own."

"If you refuse to stay at my place, then at least accept my alliance."

"You don't have to go through trouble for me."

"I already did." A woman with blue hair tied back opened the door slightly.

"Haruki, why are you out so la…" she paused when she opened the door just far enough to see Icria. When she saw Icria's headband, her body was stiff, every part but a teardrop falling down her face. "Icria…"

Icria gasped at her appearance. She knows me…then…

"You came back…" Icria couldn't reply, only hold on to Haruki harder.

"Ha…hahaoya?"

Episode six Attack of Devils, Save the School!

"Good to have you back." A kid said patting Suoh on the back, holding his soccer ball.

"And why are you here? It's school time, Taky."

"Hey Taky is a restricted name to use. Besides you actually think I can go back to Jiiguoogoka by the time school starts?" he replied. "Forget it, buddy." As they walk up the path back up to the school grounds. Zoe was surprisingly wandering in front of them, and didn't miss the familiar face of an old friend.

"Zoe? You go to this school?" he asked.

"Takuya? Well yeah, most people were transferred here around the area." Zoe turned around to face Suoh. "You never told me you know Takuya."

"Well, I don't. He's just on the soccer team." Suoh replied. Zoe was unsure to believe it to be true.

"Guess what? Takuya's a digidestined from the past too."

"Zoe, you can't just talk about the digital world in public." Takuya tried to stop Zoe from chatting about unnecessary things. Instead, Takuya froze when Zoe replied that Suoh had also been to the digital world.

"By the way, shouldn't YOU be in school?" Zoe stared at Takuya.

"Well…uh…"

"Boys….." Then Zoe turned around and saw a few of her new friends arriving by the front gate. "Talk to you guys later." She said running to her friends.

"Well have fun. It's time for me to go," Takuya started to run out of the school towards the train station.

Ten minutes before school started, Haruki and his buddies, Sanyu and Shino, all watched classmates hang up a sign near the library for the fall dance.

"I bet the KURA girls will get you this semester," Sanyu teased. The KURA girls, Kaiya, Uta, Rini, and Aiko were four normal girlish best friends. Whatever they did or say, they always did it together. Most of the time they attempt to sweet-talk Haruki into dating them; but whatever they did, Haruki refused to fall into their traps. "You're an open man with no date. Are you just going to let them get by?"

"Even if they've been trying since 6th grade, I'm not going to change one bit of this story." He snapped. Haruki knew the KURA girls were trouble makers on the inside and only played nice because he was around. There was nothing that would convince him to date those witches.

"Well you still need a date. There's got to be someone on your mind now, right?" Sanyu asked. They both waited an answer from Haruki, but he didn't move his lips. "Hey, why don't you just ask her out? Then the problem's fixed."

"Well…yeah but she'll…" He paused and thought about Icria. "But she doesn't go to this school." Just when Sanyu and Shino were about to ask who, the first bell rang for class and Haruki quickly left for science.

Haruki's class was on the second floor, the very corner of the building. As he passed by many classmates, he heard worried chatters about their homework last night. The most bizarre thing was the thought that he just saw a pair of twins that walked by. This was the building where almost all classes were for 8th grade; 7th graders shouldn't be here at all. Why would Koji and Koichi be walking around here? He thought. But the answer was soon clear when he sat down for 1st period.

"You got a big class here. Our academy only has 20 students the most in each module," she said. Remembering her voice, Haruki turned to the mysterious figure next to him in surprise.

"Where did you come from?" he asked, seeing Icria in her new spaghetti top and her hair tied so that only the back was free.

"From where you last left me: home." Icria replied. Her voice seemed warmer and appreciated then when he has first met her. She even looked brighter out of her dark uniform as if the badness has worn away out of the angel of light. But Haruki had not spoken a word from that point. In fact, after several minutes, Icria spoke again. "Haruki…" He stopped working and looked at her. "I still have to thank you for bringing me back to my family, even when I told you to stay out of it."

"Hey what are friends for?"

"Friends?" she laughed. "Is that what you really take me as?"

"Well…" Haruki' started to feel a bit feverish as if he was about to faint.

"Just look at him!" Aiko whispered from the corner of the classroom. "He is so all over the new girl! We're going to miss our big chance!" she whined.

"It's ok Aiko. We'll make sure that doesn't happen." Uta whispered to her.

Back in the digital world, a evil monster sees the legendary warriors in weakness. Attacking their world with them having nothing to do was better than making digieggs explaode. First of all, the humans didn't know how to summon the spirits. Even worse, they can't be seen missing during class or transforming to some monster.

"Master, do you want me to track them?" a machine-type digimon asked. He gazed upon his pawn who was bowing before him.

"Just make sure they don't do anything smart; distract them with everything," he replied in a deep voice. "And bring prisoner 86 and 87 with you." he added.

"Yes master." the digimon de-digivolved into a human boy looking just like all the other students. Then he entered the gate his master had opened to the human world. Behind him were two other digimon whom had their minds washed away with darkness. These digimon have done severe damage to the past digidestineds, and their master was aware of that.

"C'mon Kris!" Suoh yelled from behind. "Can't you slow down just a bit?"

"You play soccer and you run slower than me, ha!" Kris teased as she was easily jogging on her third lap.

"It's not fair; you got to start earlier than the rest of us."

"That's your problem, my advantage." Soon Kris had run pass even the slowest runners in the class. That included JP who was slowly taking his time. "You still lost to a girl." She teased when Suoh arrived at the finish line.

"Quit bragging! I can totally out run you with Diosmon!" Suoh yelled as his sweat dripped on the cement floor. At this time the whole class had finished running and were away chatting with life. However, JP had overheard Suohs shout and crept closer to ehar their conversation.

"You've got to be kidding. You're so smart, I won't even need to fun if I was Magiemon!"Kris replied.

"No way…Are they talking about the digital world?" JP asked himself. Somehow he thought walking up to them and joining their conversation was a good idea. Somehow he was attacked by sleepiness and fell to the ground snoring. It wasn't just JP, suddenly, the teacher fell to the floor and the rest of the class went to z's. Suoh wanted to do the same, but Kris had poured water on him just in time.

"What the..." he shouted "You are such a…"

"Shut up! Look it's a digimon!" Kris pointed to a devil-looking beast on top of the school roof.

"Look at that. We're not the only ones trying to be put to sleep." Suoh peered through the classrooms from the outside. There were snoring students in every room.

It was the second class of the day, and Icria was safe from the sleeping powder since she was walking in the hallways. During this class all she ahd to do was deliver papers around school. Haruki was also lucky due to his fake trip to the bathroom to skip class.

"I assure you master, everything is in place." A boy whispered into his digivice that was similar to the rest of the digidestineds. He swiftly put it away in his pocket and ran down the stairs. At the same time, Icria had turned around the corner and ran straight into him. She started to pick up the papers that fell out of order.

"Sorry I didn't see you there," she said softly while offering her hand to help him up. After the boy had rubbed off the pain from his head, he looked up and immediately recognized her. A digidestined? He thought.I must make sure she doesn't see the demons.

Icria and Haruki were unaware of the two digimons circling the school just outside the door. While they were outside of their classrooms they were lucky enough to avoid the doze.

"No problem; let me help you out." He said turning quickly from her. He handed the rest of the fallen papers to Icria.

At the same time Suoh and Kris were out on the battlefield, fighting off the two overgrown devils. Unforunately, the two were still clueless about spirit evolving and the only weapon they had was – well, nothing.

One of the devil quickly scooped down to the ground, creating a huge gust of wind hat blew back Suoh and Kris. The other quickly attempted to grab them with its sharp harpy-like claws, but missed by a few inches.

"We can't keep it up like this! Our bodies are as vulnerable as any other human!" Kris shouted.

"They're after us, not the school. I'm not going to risk everyone's lives." Suoh replied.

"But you can't risk taking away yours either. Who else could control flame and thunder?" Then Suoh had thought of am idea.

"Flame and thunder, water and earth. He recited. "This is where our strengths come from! We need to focus on controlling our elements." And after a hard concentration, a red and yellow light glowed through their bodies. Their digivices started to beep uncontrollably which irritated the two digimons. They were extremely weakened by its light and wasted no time to stop it from glowing.

"Let's go." Suoh stated.

"Execute now! Evolution!" they both shouted.

"Diosmon!"

"Magiemon!"

The boy glanced quickly outside the glass window and watched them fight for a quick second.

"Do you need help with anything else?" he asked politely, trying to keep her distracted.

"I'm fine, thanks." She said walking towards the door. On the other side of the building, Haruki had walked down the stairs just in time to see Icria walking by. Haruki was prepared to shout "hi" down the hallway, but stopped to watch the mysterious boy walk in front of Icria and kiss her on the lips.

I don't have time for this, he thought and immediately released Icria. Before Icria could even catch herself from falling, he had already disappeared out the door. She quickly gathered the papers again and headed out the same way. But Haruki had already run outside to think that none of it happened.

This whole thing's a nightmare, he thought. First he sees some random person kissing Icria and the next moment two digimon are circling the campus, fighting his friends who were losing badly.

"Let go!" Icria shouted. On the other side of the building, Icria was wrestling with another digimon that had surprised her from behind.

"Hey!" Haruki called. "Leave her alone!" Then it threw Icria 15 ft across the school as she landed on the steep hill lying in the center of the quad.

"Haruki! Behind you!" Icria shouted as she turned around. Without time to react, one of the devils scooped up Haruki and held him tightly in his fist."It's Devimon…" Icria growled softly.

"You want a fight?" Haruki shouted. Soon his anger was raging in his body which turned brightly into a green light. Then Icria faced the digimon in front of her as her powers glowed bright blue.

"Aeromon!"

"Koorimon!"

As soon as Haruki transformed, his body gave off such a cold temperature that it froze Devimon's hand. This made it easier for him to break free.

"How did these losers get here?" Aeromon growled as she took flight next to Magiemon. Magiemon was busying handling the other digimon, Devidramon.

"How am I supposed to know? I don't even know who your friend is." Magiemon pointed to the figure who threw Icria onto the grass. "I mean he surely doesn't look like one of these." The digimon was a similar figure to a dinosaur that's made out of metal. He has two long spikes on his shoulder while carrying a dagger in his hand. He glanced at Aeromon, but then continued the fight with Koorimon.

"There's something different about him…" Aeromon said observing their battle.

"Wildfire Blitz!" Diosmon shouted, unleashing a tornado of fire on Devimon. Within a few seconds the digimon had pixilated and vanished without leaving a digiegg nor fractal code.

"Help me out here." Magimon shouted as she aimed her wand towards Devidramon. Aeromon pointed her staff close to Magiemon's.

"Solar Flare!" Devimon's essassence disappeared in the sky like Devimon's. Koorimon, however, was still sword fighting with the digimon.

"Your team is strong." He said.

"Did you really expect us to suck like your loser devils?" Koorimon replied sourly.

"This is only the beginning, warriors!" As soon as he got a distance from Koorimon, a cloud of grey smoke covered his position. Koorimon slashed his sword right through the clouds, but he had disappeared.

"Haruki, who is he?" Icria asked. But Haruki didn't even want to turn around to look at her.

"I'm not sure," he said briefly. "I thought you would've known" Then he walked silently back to his classroom before the school had awoken again.

"Tell me so you won't get punished!" Icria yelled.

"Look girl, the reason why Haruki told us is because we're his friends, and he trusts us to keep it a secret!" Sanyu shouted back. "That includes you!"

Icria sighed. There was no other way to find out why Haruki has been so depressed lately. She had tried to ask him herself many times, but Haruki suggests that nothing's wrong. Actually, he's been depressed for over a week now. Nothing's wrong. he would always say. It was always that brief; nothing else.

"Fine," Icria said giving up after seeing Haruki walking towards them. "Tell him his little joke isn't helping any of us."

"Well what did she say?" Haruki asked quickly glancing at Icria whom had walked away.

"The usual: torturing us until we tell her what she wants," replied Shino. "I know it's private, but what is bothering you?" There was a long silence. "You could give us a little hint?"

"First…" he replied slowly."I need to know who he is." Haruki sneered, facing the same mysterious boy walking around the campus.

Episode seven The Road to Confusion

Today was the day they were going to become true heroes. Today was the day everything would become clear in the mist of their future. Most importantly, today was the start of a new adventure that will become the history of many lives.

That morning, Zoe had awakened a few hours earlier than she normally does and pushes Haruki off his bed. "C'mon were going to be late." she shouted. Haruki lay on the floor, staring at his alarm clock which said 6:45am.

"Zoe, you never change…" he softly replied as he finally got up. Zoe was already downstairs calling Kris to make sure if everything's alright.

"It is a bit early, but I'll make sure I'll bring them over." Kris replied thoughtfully. She was still in her bed wondering how the D-tector works. Finally, she gave up and shoved her phone in her pocket. Then she walked over to her desk where all the diagrams she drew were unorganized. The papers were placed neatly back into the folder as Kris wandered outside to find Tommy and JP.

Icria ran down the stairs when the doorbell rang. Koichi had just slipped on his shoes and opened the door. "Alright, let's go!" Icria shouted while sliding down the stairs. She quickly ran to the door where Koichi and Koji stood.

"Do you think everyone's there yet?" Takuya asked while jogging to Yoyogi Park with Suoh.

"C'mon we can't be that late." Suoh replied. However, when they reached the peak of the steep hill, all the digidestineds were waiting below, staring from the wide meadow.

"All present and ready for action!" Zoe smiled. Everything was going to become clear; every digidestined stood there side by side and face to face.

"And with all the power of the ten legendary warriors, Lucemon was finally defeated and the fractal code returned to the digital world," said Koji, ending the story.

"But if everything's back to normal, why do we need to save this world again?" Haruki asked.

"Darkness doesn't stay away forever, just as the light never hides," Koichi replied wisely. After the group had finished their picnic lunch, (thanks to Zoe) Kris pulled out two sheets of paper.

"Alright, a few days ago, Zoe and I sketched out this diagram." Kris said. Everyone peered closely. There were 20 circles placed in a row, each paired in twos. Then two pairs had a line drawn to another circle below them that explained the elements and physical characteristics of a warrior.

"Take this one for example." she pointed to the pair that had the symbol of fire. Next to it stood two doodles of man and beast."The spirits of fire, Agunimon and BurningGreymon; they were fused with the spirits of thunder, Beetlemon and MetalKabuterimon." Her fingers slid to the next two blue doodles. Then Kris pointed to a picture of what was supposed to be Diosmon. "Together the spirits of fire and thunder became one, Diosmon. He has the same power, and even almost the same attacks as Agunimon and Beetlemon." Kris looked up to see if Suoh was paying attention. "And this power was given to Mr. Takahashi."

"Go on, what about your other smart pictures?" Suoh teased. Kris grimaced. "I gained water and earth, Icria got darkness and light, and Haruki got wind and ice."

"Wait," Tommy interrupted. "Then who possesses the spirits of wood and steel?" Kris grinned.

"That's the part I can't figure out. Unless there's another digidestined involved, maybe out enemies already took control of the spirits. However, it's been months since we got our spirits. Is it possible that the other two spirits are not distributed yet?" Everyone else was thinking of another possible solution.

But who were the enemies? The royal knights? Lucemon? What was the reason why new digidestineds were chosen? After long moments of silence, Icria asked.

"So what's the other paper for?" she asked curiously.

"Oh," Kris had almost forgotten. "This is our digivice. Well, obviously it has a different shape from the D-Tector. Our generation has a digivice that's circular. The buttons, however, are about the same. The two buttons here in the center are equivalent to the two buttons that used to be on the left side of the D-Tector." Kris pointed two fingers to each side of the circular device. "I guess these are left and right buttons for convenience." Then she touched the top of both diagrams. "And it seems that we still have a scanner. According to your story, fractal code may be needed for us to evolve."

"I wonder…" Tommy thought. "If Suoh wanted to become Diosmon, does that mean Takuya and JP can't evolve?"

"Well, unless you still have D-Tectors that may be the case. However, we can always test it anytime, now that I figured out how to open a gateway to the digital world. I'll need one person to stay behind and cover our disappearance."

"Don't worry, I can handle that," said Koichi.

"The rest without digivices, hold onto someone." Kris continued. Takuya grabbed onto Suoh, while Tommy held onto Haruki. Icria had to take Koji and JP. "Ready?" Kris asked. Icria had already pulled out her digivice.

"Digiport open!" she shouted quickly. Moments later, Koji and JP had disappeared with her, leaving behind only a frightful scream.

"You're not getting away, digiport open!" Suoh yelled after. Kris had followed him with Haruki the last one to enter.

"Have you considered working out?" Icria said sarcastically from the bottom of the pile.

"Hey, I'm feeling just as bad as you are!" JP replied.

"If you didn't decide to go first we wouldn't have this problem!" Suoh shouted back.

"So you think the leader should always go first?" Icria yelled.

"Maybe it's best so JP doesn't have to lose weight."

"Maybe you should just shut up and move your fat ass!" Kris threatened. Haruki and Tommy were working on their own plan of getting down safely. Their attempt tilted the pile of digidestineds more to the right. They fall.

"Alright then, now what?" Takuya asked while helping Suoh up.

"Now, we evolve." Suoh replied as he held his digivice tightly in front of him. Fractal code started to glow around his body. Haruki and Kris did the same. Icria was focused on something else. She felt a movement behind her. "Exe…"

"Wait!" Icria said abruptly. She swiftly turned around while throwing three kunais from her pocket into the trees. The kunais disappeared in the shadows for a moment. Everyone was still.

"What was that fo…" Suoh stopped to listen to a whirling sound coming towards them. The three kunais flung back towards them.

Koji was aware of the attack and dodged one of the flying daggers. Icria had avoided one too as it flew straight towards Haruki and nailed into a tree near him. The last kunai was aimed towards Suoh whom did not have fast enough reflexes to dodge it. Icria instantly caught it with her bare hand, a few inches from Suoh's face. Blood ran out of her hand.

"Icria?" Koji stared at her emotionless face, her hand still held out in front of Suoh holding the bloody kunai. She finally dropped the kunai and held her wounded hand to resist the pain. "We should send you back home." Koji whispered while examining the deep cut.

"I'm fine," Icria lied. The blood from her hand was dripping faster.

"My, my, I never tasted human blood before, but it sure smells nice." A voice teased. "I've also heard that the fractal code was quite tasty too!"

"You bitch," Icria growled softly.

"Excuse me, but I'm no dog. Look who's on her knees begging for mercy!" she giggled.

"Shut up!" Icria shouted. She pushed Koji away and ran towards the shadow.

"Icria, Don't be stupid!" Koji yelled.

A sharp movement lightly touched Icria's hair. It slashed the wounded tree that landed in between their fight.

"Execute!" Icria shouted. "Aeromon."

"Oh how wonderful!" she squealed. "Is this a legendary warrior?"

"Solar Flare!"

"You're quite a beasty little girl," she teased again, avoiding Aeromon's attack.

"What kind of digimon like that can be so powerful? Zoe asked.

"This is probably the enemy we've been waiting for," Suoh stated. They watched silently as the sparks of light dance in the deep forest.

Episode 8 Enter MetalGarudamon

"I can't see anything!" Zoe whined. The small sparks in the forest continued to clash rapidly.

"How can they move so fast?" JP mumbled.

"Shouldn't we help?" Haruki asked with his eyes glaring towards Suoh. Suoh was lost looking into the fight.

She's still fighting, Suoh thought. After severely injuring herself she still fights for us. But why? She only cares about herself. What would happen if she fails? I can't even think of what to do.

"Suoh!" Haruki yelled. He turned around. "What are you doing? Do you think she can continue to fight like this by herself?" He looked away from Suoh and pushed his fractal code into his digivice. Then Koorimon ran after Aeromon in the fight.

No, Suoh thought again. I don't think she can either.

"What's your plan, goggle-head?" Kris asked. This time Suoh didn't have to think.

"Fight." Kris directly followed his orders and digivolved. Diosmon entered the forest with Magiemon behind. "Can you clear the trees?" he asked."

"No problem," Magiemon replied.

"Also, tell Aeromon to step back and keep a light barrier to prevent it from moving too fast."

"Right."

"Crystal slash!" Koorimon yelled. His sword nearly sliced the tip of her head. She held the sword with one hand and glared at him.

"That's no way to greet a lady," she stated.

"Well excuse me miss, I haven't heard your name yet."

"Wonderful, you may address me as Lilthmon, the princess of destruction," she laughed. Koorimon smirked. Their conversation allowed Aeromon to rest. Magiemon flew to her location.

"Can you still fight?" she asked when she saw Aeromon trying to recover her breathing. Her head was facing the floor and her eyes were closed. She was leaning on her staff for support.

"What am I supposed to do?" Aeromon asked, not moving from her position.

"Give as much light as you can, and I'll give you more room."

"Alright." A few moments later after Magiemon left, she got up and held her staff carefully while it was planted into the ground. Her eyes remained closed for concentration. Meanwhile, Magiemon swiftly cut down all the trees near them.

"Aeromon!" Diosmon shouted. Immediately, she waved her staff into the air as fragments of light busted and surrounded the battlefield. Soon you could only see each other; the rest was covered in whiteness. Diosmon took this opportunity to attack.

"Blazing wind!" Diosmon yelled as he swiftly punched Lilthmon with this flaming fist. Lilthmon didn't react as quickly, but was still able to stop Diosmon's attack. He swung around and left a scar on her face where he kicked. She screamed.

"I'll get you for that." Lilthmon was angry now. A dark sphere began to grow in her hand to the size of a tennis ball. She threw it at Diosmon.

"Coral escapade," Magiemon shouted. A thick amount of vines shot up from the ground in front of Diosmon and cancelled out Lilthmon's attack. But Magiemon's attack would not have been strong enough to protect Suoh. Instead, out of the dense smoke was something bigger.

"I just feel so helpless standing in front of the world we should be saving," Tommy sighed.

"Face it Shorty, this isn't our battle anymore," JP replied. It didn't make him feel any different than everyone else who fought Lucemon a year ago.

"That may be true, but you still are the eroes of the digital world," a digimon said from behind.

"Bokomon? Neamon?" Takuya asked. "Why are you here?"

"Well first of all, this is the digital world. We do live here for that matter. And second, I can hear your entire riot from the town, everyone can!"

"And I could hear it from my sleep," Neamon stated. Bokomon snapped his waistband.

"Bokomon, just what has happened in the past year?" Zoe asked. He sighed.

"After you all returned home, the digital world regained its peace. Even Lucemon had helped keep the digital world in harmony. But in order for the digital world to remain this way, they had to seal away all the darkness into one digiegg. Eventually the world lost its balance again which gave the digiegg power. Eventually the digiegg hatched. Whatever kind of digimon came out of that egg had spread darkness across the digital world again." The fight was only silenced for a moment, but started again after a fierce roar.

"Suoh?" Magiemon questioned. She flew up to where she though his head was. Carelessly, the figure that was now revealed from the smoke brushed Magiemon away with his hand that was now the size of her whole body. Magiemon came down fast and immediately dedigivolved. His next target was Lilthmon. The overgrown bird had huge metal claws and wings. This new digimon borm from Diosmon is now MetalGarudamon.

His huge metal wings rose and he held a long spear that was electrically charged. The amount of electricity it gave off had destroyed Aeromon's light barrier. Aeromon quickly glanced at MetalGarudamon, but the aftershock of his attack had hit her from behind. She dedigivolved as well.

"Suoh, stop it!" Koorimon yelled. Ignoring him, the digimon threw his spear at Lilthmon. She was annoyed. Angrily, she redirected the energy back at Suoh. Suoh had no choice but to let it attack him. In the good way, it made him dedigivolve. Without wanting to stay, Lilthmon teleported herself out of the battle.

"Suoh, you bastard," Haruki stated when he helped Suoh stand up. "That was really unnecessary."

"At least I scared her off," he laughed. Kris, who was minorly injured, had approached Suoh and slapped him across his face.

"When I get my beast spirit, you'll know how it feels!" she threatened. Haruki laughed this time but Suoh didn't.

"Icria, at least answer me," said Koji. Icria was left lying about fifty feet away from them. They looked across the field to where Koji was trying to lift Icria onto his back. She only responded with a soft moan. "Please, wake up."

"Icria," Suoh called as he ran to her. She slowly lifted her head. "I know what you're thinking," he started before she could say an insult. "I mean, it was my fault that we were about to digivolve, and also my fault because you injured your hand. We'd all probably be dead if you didn't start fighting Lilthmon on your own. It's because you never give up or lose your confidence. So I think instead of me, you should lead this group," Icria shook her head.

"You know," she weakly whispered." You're only making yourself weaker by saying that. The spirit of flame is yours, not mine. Remember that flame is given to the person with the most courage." She lightly chuckled. "The only reason why I have light and darkness is because they were once possessed by my two little brothers. I guess also because it's the hardest to handle.

"But being the hardest to handle has nothing to do with courage. Suoh, just because I have ninja skills and you don't, doesn't make me the better digidestned. There are changes that this world needs that only you can do, not me, Kris, Haruki, nor any of the past digidestineds." She paused and smiled. "Besides, goggles don't fit me." Suoh could only respond by smiling back before Koji continued to carry her home.

"What did you guys fight?" Koichi yelled after seeing Icria's condition. Icria was asleep since she had finish talking to Suoh. Koji slowly moved her onto Koichi's back.

"Just tell our mother that she overworked herself," Koji replied.

"And how should I explain her hand?"

"She was trying to stop a guy who was robbing an old lady in a dark alley," he made up. Koichi didn't think that his excuse would've worked, but it did. His mom bought any story carelessly and immediately put Icria to bed.

The other digidestiends safely returned home and quickly fell asleep, except for Kris. Tomorrow, Suoh and Takuya would have to go for soccer practice again while Zoe planned to spend the day shopping. Koji and Haruki have kendo practice in the morning, so Koichi decided to spend some time in the arcades with Tommy and JP.

As for Kris, she had to stay home again to unpack. Kris couldn't care less about staying up late after a long day, even if she could have just been tired and saw things that weren't really there. However, Kris knew she saw something flying outside her window. But when she looked outside, there was only a school boy walking quietly along the street, alone.

Episode 9 New Beginning

Thank god it's Thanksgiving break, Kris thought. No more homework and no more unopened boxes. Immediately, Kris ran down a few blocks to Haruki's house. His mom answered the door. Kris had almost mistaken her for Zoe.

"I'm sorry, Haruki's on a trip with the rest of the soccer team. They're spending the week at the ski lodge in the next town," she answered.

"Then is um, Zoe home?" Kris asked.

"Sorry she's staying with some friends out of town. She should be back on Thursday."

"Um, that's ok. Thanks Mrs. Tsukino." Kris waved goodbye as she marched down a few more streets to Icria's house. She knew it would've been pointless to look for Suoh who was with Haruki. It was also pointless to look for Icria whom has been in bed for the past two weeks; since they encountered Lilthmon.

She must be pretty bored by herself, Kris thought. But two weeks is more than enough to recover. Koichi had opened the door.

"Hey Kris," he said happily. "Come in."

"Thanks," she replied while taking off her shoes. Koichi went back to doing the laundry in the living room. Kris just followed. "Is your mom home?" She felt sorry for always seeing Koichi work every time she was there.

"No, she has to work this week too," he sighed. "She was promoted last week so now she works on weekends. But I guess the good news is that she only has to work for seven hours a day instead of ten." She quickly did the math.

"But that's now a big difference," Kris frowned.

"I know. One hour might not seem a lot, but at least she has more time to relax every day."

"What about you? You don't seem to relax a lot either."

"Actually, since Icria came back, she's been doing most of the work. It's just now when she's not herself. She just stays in her room all day and sleeps. She doesn't eat either. I know her injuries can't be that bad; she's a quick healer. Two weeks is more than enough."

"Is it okay if I go check on her?"

"She said she wanted to spend a few days back home, so she left early this morning."

Darn it, she thought. Why do they always leave me!?

"Where exactly is her home?" Kris asked.

"Didn't she tell you?" Koichi was surprised.

"She only said she was from Kamakura." Kris thought back to the day they first traveled to the digital world. Icria wouldn't even state her name.

"Well, at least she told you that. But if she wouldn't even tell her teammates, then I guess it's personal. I'm sure she'll tell you when you're ready to know."

Is it that bad? She thought. Carelessly, Kris decided to join Koichi with the chores for the day, still guessing of what Icria's hiding.

She continued to walk down the hallway, nothing more. Her job was basically to be the hall monitor of the day, to make sure no one was cutting class. This place is bigger than I last remembered, she thought. She would sometimes peak into classrooms. Even though it was Thanksgiving week, there were still many students. Most of them were new, but there were still some familiar faces; the same faces that held deadly lips.

By the time she had finish circling all three buildings, she returned to the master's office. The school bell rung. Everyone ran out of the buildings for lunch.

"Yes, we recommend classes to be attended weekly. But if school is too busy, then you could try splitting it into 5 hrs a week," the master explained to a new pair of parents. He knew she was coming before she appeared by the door. "Ms. Minamoto, would you show our new student around the campus?" The parents were puzzled of who he was talking to. They jumped when she suddenly appeared by the door.

"Yes, sir," Icria briefly replied without looking at anyone in the room. But when she did look at the new student, she realized it was the same boy from school. She tried to show no emotions to the newcomer as the master always told her. Instead, she ended up staring at him for too long.

"Actually Ms. Minamoto, would you first show us some of the common techniques we teach here?" the master asked calmly as he slowly got up from his chair with his wooden cane. She made a small grin.

"This way please," Icria waved towards the door as she bowed. The parents quietly got up and followed Icria outside to an open area near the maple trees. On the way, the master briefly described his assistant.

"Even though she's not my daughter, I had raised her since she was two," he bragged. "In other words, she's my best student. One day she'll even own this academy." As must as Icria love her foster dad, she never wanted to inherit the academy. There was just more than ninja stuff that's important in her life.

"Master, what would you like me to demonstrate?" She tried to stop him from talking. He simply instructed her to perform some tricks that's she's familiar with. Icria did some basic jumps and climbing on a tree. The master timed her that it took less than 10 seconds for her to get to the top. It entertained him as if it was a comedy show. Next, she showed them the usage of throwing stars by throwing kunais at a target. She was also told to nail a falling leaf to a branch.

"I think that will be enough. You may show our student the campus now." In relief, Icria put away her kunais. The master had leaded the parents back into his office.

"You were pretty good," the boy said.

"I hate it when he makes me demonstrate," Icria replied dryly.

"It's amazing how we go to the same school. What's your name?"

"Icria."
"I'm Raiden. So I heard you were raised here, must be pretty cool."

"There's nothing cool about being separated from your family for your entire childhood." Raiden didn't say anything. They walked across all three buildings of the school. Lastly, Icria showed him the cafeteria. The entire room was full.

"You have a lot if students enrolled here," he stated.

"That's because it's the most popular academy in Japan. The campus is also for other extracurricular actives. Even college students stay here, but of course our specialty is self-defense." she replied.

"Icria," someone called. She turned. It was a girl wearing a white blouse with a short jean skirt that was barely five inches long. Her hair was dark brown and had a pink cherry hairclip.

"Are you lost sweetie?" she asked sarcastically while twirling her finger in her hair. "Don't worry, I think your mommy's just a few miles down the river," she teased. Icria ignored her. She looked at Raiden.

"Hello. Are you new?" she asked. "Why don't' I show you around."

"Actually," Raiden moved back a little. "Icria was just…"

"Let me introduce you to some friends of mine. If you follow her, you wouldn't be introduced to anyone," she said whiling dragging Raiden by his arm. She pulled him to a chair by the table full of chatty girls. Icria chuckled a bit and exited the cafeteria.

"Hey Suoh," Haruki called. They were putting on their snow gear briefly after getting off the lift. Suoh was busy tightening his shoe to the board.

"What's up?" he replied while still bending down.

"I was wondering, do you have a thing for Kris?" Suoh fell over in shock.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" he yelled.

'Well, you guys like to fight a lot," he murmured.

"We're just competitive that way."

"I see," Haruki replied quietly. He slowly placed the goggle over his head. Suoh finished tying his strap and got up.

"Haruki, are you alright?" You seem a little quiet for the past month or so,"

"Suoh," he sighed.

"What does it mean to be jealous?" he asked. Suoh thought for a moment.

"Well," he began."It's like how Kris always beats me in running; when you want to be that person or become the best. But sometimes you wish you could be that person, and you know you can't. So then we start to get mad at the person just because of that."Haruki didn't respond.

"But if you can put that aside from your thoughts and focus that you can really win, then jealousy goes away. The only reason why we would get mad is because we are afraid to face what can happen; we lose courage that way. If you continue to be jealous, all you're going to feel is hatred until you can get over it.

"You'd never be able to become better than your opponent that way." He put his hand on his shoulder. "It's what Icria felt when she was the only one without a spirit. It's what Zoe feels whenever you get to travel to the digital world and she can't. It's what I feel whenever I compete against Kris. Everyone has it Haruki, and the sooner you face it, the easier it is to overcome it."

"You really know what you're saying don't you?" Haruki rolled his eyes while waiting for Suoh to be ready.

"You asked for it," Suoh laughed while putting on his goggles. "Haruki, can I ask you something in return?"

"Hmm?"

"Does this have to do with Icria?" Haruki smiled.

"Just what do you know about girls?" he chuckled as he started down the snowy hill.

"There you are," Raiden called from the top of the hill. He ran down to Icria who was sitting next to the river. "You ditched me." Icria ignored him as he sat next to her.

"I'll be going pretty soon," he stated.

"Ja ne," she briefly replied.

"Okay," he sighed while leaning closer towards Icria. "I see how it is, princess." His mouth was right next to her ear. His hand slowly made its way to the other side of Icria's hip. Icria, being annoyed, pulled out a kunai and threw it at his face. Raiden rolled away and the kunai nailed itself to a maple tree.

"I'm not falling for that again," she spat angrily.

"And I'm not falling for those old kunai moves," he smiled. Then he sighed and stood up. "I guess it's too late to invite the spirit of darkness to join?"

"Is that your reason for enrolling here? I wouldn't serve that overgrown cat in a thousand years," she stood up and grinned. "Anyone would be able to catch the spirits faster than your master."

"I wish I could say the same to your bat-lady, but I'm not laying any doubts on my master either."

"Let me give you a bonus. The digidestineds are meeting up in the Hamburgermon Village in nine days. Do you think you can take one before me?"

"We'll see then," he stated and walked back up the hill to the front gate of the school.

"We will, won't we?" she asked at the running water showing her reflection. Only a soft maniacal laugh replied.