Chapter 2

The Second Warning

"Oh, shit."

Koji was lying face down on the ground, his face feeling bruised and tender, but could clearly hear Takuya as he swore. He pressed himself off the ground, feeling as if being made of stone, and looked up.

The first thing he noticed was that everyone was lying on the ground, out cold, except for himself and Takuya, who was frozen in place, his hands clenching and unclenching. They were scraped and bleeding badly, along with a cut on his right arm.

"What the hell...?" Koji whispered as he gazed around. The second thing he saw was...nothing.

There was nothing there.

Dry, cracked, infertile ground, a melancholy grey sky, and a lifeless horizon as far as the eye could see. No Digimon. No plants. No life.

"Ow...Takuya," groaned a voice from behind them. "I am never listening to you ever again...you are just too...stupid!"

"Ouch, that must've hurt," Tommy chuckled weakly as he slowly sat up. Koichi was rubbing his eyes next to him, and J.P was just sitting up.

"Quiet, Tommy," Zoe snapped as she stood up. She also received several bruises and cuts, the most prominent one a long gash curving along her shoulder to halfway to her elbow. It was shallow, but it was enough to cause blood to trickle lightly down her wrist. She turned her attention to Koji, and her eyes widened.

"What?" hissed Koji, glaring at her, but he suddenly felt a warm stream of blood run down his face.

Zoe sighed and pulled out compact blush and mirror set (why would she have that, he wondered) and shoved it in his face.

Koji turned his face slightly, and found a deep gash under his cheek that was bleeding in large amounts down his face. He looked away from the mirror, scowling, which was when he noticed the tear in his jeans below the knee. It wasn't bleeding, though - it felt more like a bruise. Still, he wasn't looking too peachy.

"Dammit," he heard Koichi swear uncharacteristically. "I got dirt in my eyes...I can't see shit...,"

Tommy ran his hand across the earth, gathering up a bit of dirt in his palm.

"It's...dust." he sighed, letting the dirt slide out of his hand back onto the ground.

"Okay..," Takuya clapped his hands together, wincing. "We need to survey the land -,"

"What land?" muttered J.P under his breath, wiping dirt off his face.

"- and try to find out what happened. J.P, you come with me to explore. Koji, you look like gore, so Zoe, go find bandages or something to use to patch him up. Tommy, find Koichi a rag and some water so he can flush out his eyes, got it?" he finished, already optimistic and giving orders. Just moments later, he and J.P were clearing the area for any life.

Zoe glanced around hesitantly, not seeing a puddle of water around. Koji was beginning to feel hazy from the loss of blood. Tommy did nothing; nobody brought any of the things the twins needed. Koichi rubbed his eyes.

"Take this," Koji muttered weakly, untying his bandana and holding it out to Zoe. She stared at him for a moment, then took it from him, unfolded it, and ripped it into shreds. She handed a strip to Tommy, and took one for her shoulder. She gave Koji two, ordering him to clean himself up.

Koji dabbed his face with the shred of his bandana, grinding his teeth together from the sting of the dirty cloth. Koichi continued to rub his eyes, which were red and teary.

"Stop rubbing, Koichi! Honestly! You're going to make it worse!" Zoe scolded. Tommy stood next to her, tying a bandage around her shoulder.

And the bickering and complaints continued from there, mostly from Zoe. When Tommy tied the bandana too tightly, or Koichi tried to rub his eyes again, or even when Koji looked like he was about to pass out, she would lecture and scold them. Only Tommy talked back to her; the twins were a bit helpless at that point.

"Well, if you'd stop bitching..."

"Tommy! What gives you the right to say that? I swear, that dumb ass Takuya is the worst influence on you...!"

"You just swore! Stop yelling at me when - !"

"Hey!" called a familiar voice from the distance. Takuya came running, J.P wailing at his heels, towards them, a panicked look on his face. "We actually do have company!"

There was a feminine cackle and a deep laugh from behind the two boys. Koji felt at least seventy percent more awake at the eerie combination.

"How brave of you to come, Digi-Destined," cooed a tall, lady-like Digimon, who gracefully revealed her self to the remaining four. Her masked eyes glowed blood red, and her ash-gray hair looked like each hair was plucked from a cobweb. One somewhat chained hand was cloaked in black and slender, while the other was long and thin a sharply clawed, with long orange nails. Her ragged cloak snapped and curled even without the presence of wind, which the children found intimidating.

"I'm sure you've figured out why you've been called here, kiddies?" cackled another similar shaped Digimon, except this one was white, with an almost blueish gleam like ice. His arms were so long his hands at his ankles, with fingers even more clawlike then his partner. His gaunt face was also cloaked with a mask, but seemingly bald underneath. His large wings were white and incredibly ragged, tears and gashes piercing through the skin everywhere. It was a wonder he was flying at the moment.

IceDevimon! Koji suddenly realized who the second Digimon was. He almost killed me and Takuya and Koichi! Well, mostly me, but still.

"IceDevimon," hissed Takuya, eyes narrowing and still-bleeding hands clenched once again.

"Takuya, Warrior of Flame, if I remember correctly," drawled IceDevimon in his strange southern accent. "The beautiful, more powerful maiden joining me this gorgeous day is LadyDevimon, and you will remember that,"

"Well, I'd say enough with the introductions, pookie," purred LadyDevimon. "Let's just kill them now!"

"You'll never beat -!" Takuya began, but J.P yanked him back hard.

"Idiot! We'll never beat them! We don't have our spirits anymore! Sure, our D-Tectors are still here," he said, pulling out his blue and yellow device. "But we still can't evolve! Look!"

J.P pressed one of the buttons on the front, scrolling through the screens where his Human and Beast Spirit were supposed to be. Takuya sighed, and gave J.P, Zoe, and Tommy all a hard stare. They nodded.

What?

"Time to die! You children bore me," cried LadyDevimon. "Darkness Spear!"

One of her arms suddenly became a sharp spear, and in seconds, she had hurled in at the children. Takuya and J.P leaped out of the way, tumbling in the dirt.

"Tundra Freeze!"

A cold wind whipped up behind them, then a full-on snow avalanche began to from from behind IceDevimon, roaring down the hilltop they stood at.

"Run!" screamed Takuya.

Koji started to stand up, but Takuya and Zoe both came over and helped him by supporting him on both sides. Tommy and J.P were trying to do the same thing with the blinded Koichi. They all started to run, trying to take as long leaps as possible, as fast as they could. The avalanche was not far from completely crushing them now.

"Come on, guys! I see the portal!" exclaimed Takuya. Koji saw it too - a strange, borderless purpled-hued gate to the real world.

"Oh, no you don't!" screeched LadyDevimon, "Darkness Wave!"

A swarm of pure darkness seeped from her, and she let it join the avalanche of snow down it's tumbling path, which was now very close to the children.

However, the gate was only three feet away now.

"Jump!" screamed Takuya, who launched himself, Koji, and even Zoe into the black mist.

For a split second, there was a flash of white, but definitely not like before. The flash of blinding light that had consumed them the first time seemed...different. Something had happened that Koji couldn't quite settle on.

But before he knew it, he was lying face down on the cold cement on the underground train station.

J.P, Tommy, and Koichi came screaming after them, landing in a heap at the mouth of the tunnel, missing Koji by only a foot.

"Is everyone okay? Are we all alive?" whispered Zoe, awed they could have possibly made it out in one piece.

"I'm fine."

"That was wicked awesome! I wanna do that again! Oh, yeah, I'm good."

"Tommy, we nearly killed ourselves doing that."

"My eyes hurt."

"So!" Takuya started up again. "What the hell was that?"

"No Digimon, plants, or anything, at all, except for IceDevimon and LadyDevimon." explained Tommy.

"That's not what he meant," groaned J.P.

"That was terrible! We literally had death nipping our heels, our Digimon friends all are gone, and our Spirits haven't come back!" cried Zoe. "I'm never going to seen Kazemon again."

"Pull yourself together, woman!" groaned Koji. "One minute your lecturing us like my Math teacher, and the next your going on and on with the crying -!"

"Koji! Zoe! Shut up!" snapped Takuya. "We need a place to crash at for a bit. Just to clean ourselves up and stuff."

Zoe seemed to brighten slightly at that idea.

"My parents are at work," Koji began to explained, glancing at the screen of his cell phone. "But their going to be home in...about an hour."

"My mom and dad are probably out with Yutaka right now, since he's leaving to be with some friends before college tomorrow," said Tommy. "They could be back at anytime."

"My parents are not going to be back until nine," Zoe said with a smile. "That should be enough to clean ourselves up and wash our clothes."

"Sweet! We get to go to Zoe's house!" exclaimed J.P in pure joy.

"How can we wash our clothes with you around?" wondered Takuya aloud. "What, do you have two bathrooms?"

"Actually, she has four." Koichi spoke up. His eyes were red, but he could stop himself from rubbing them. "I had to go over to her house to finish a project. It's huge."

"It's settled. You boys shower and wash your clothes in the three upstairs bathrooms, while I use the one downstairs." Zoe decided, standing up and putting her hands on her hips. Her hysterical behavior from before was replaced with leaderly bossiness. "Now let's shimmy up the elevator and get to my house before my parents do!"

"Hey!" complained Takuya. "I'm supposed to say that!"

Hope you enjoyed that Chapter. I am pretty proud of it, actually, so I hope you liked it too.

I pretty much made up the Tundra Freeze move because there was no description of it. I hope the moves were okay, anyway.

I'll try to update soon, but I am extremely busy with a lot of school activities and all sorts of things. I'll try, though! XD

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