A/N: Sorry this is late. I've been distracted by a lot of different things and a different story I had to write. Sorry for the wait.

Wow. This story has the most favorites, most reviews in two chapters, and second for number of story alerts and I'm not even into chapter two and hasn't even been up for a month. That's just . . . plain awesome. This is already semi popular. Thanks to everyone who has faved, added this story to the Story Alert, and PokeTrainer, TobiGB, Kimiko Heroux, Immortal Fallen Radiance, 13wolfsbane, and the unnamed reviewer for reviewing. Anyway, please read and enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon Frontier or any of the references made.

A Changed Destiny

Chapter 2: The Fortune Fated Warrior

The five humans and three Digimon had made it out of the cave. Before leaving, Koichi had made sure to grab his shoe, which he almost forgot about until he felt the cold stone floor through his sock. Only a mile away from the small area where they had emerged from, they stopped in a clearing in the forest outside the Flame Village. Bokomon, the small white creature, began a lecture about things that he knew that Koichi didn't understand. Takuya, JP, Tommy, and the blond named Zoe seemed to have heard it before and would try to make it easier for the boy to understand since Bokomon's explanation didn't seem to clarify things.

"You see, the reason Takuya was able to evolve into Agunimon was because of a special item known as a Spirit," Bokomon explained, pulling out a book and opening it to a picture to show a drawing of the creature that Takuya had transformed from back in the cave. "There are ten, all created from the Ancient Legendary Warriors, all holding power of the ten different natural elements: Fire, Water, Wind, Thunder, Wood, Metal, Ice, Wood, Light, and Darkness."

"How about you just start from the beginning," suggested Zoe, sitting down next to Koichi with Takuya on his opposite side.

"Right," Bokomon nodded. Bokomon turned back a few pages to show a drawing of an Earth like place that had black shadings instead of being blue and green with a looming black rabbit-jester hovering over it. "Once the Digital World was in the middle of war between the Beast Digimon and the Humanoid Digimon. Suddenly, Lucemon came from the sky and calmed the fighting. He ruled the Digital World in peace for a while but soon succumbed to the power and began ruling like a tyrant. After some time, ten Digimon that would call themselves the Ten Legendary Warriors rose up and defeated Lucemon. With the last of their strength, they turned their power into the Spirits and gave them to Seraphimon, Cherubimon, and Ophanimon who ruled as the Celestial Angels. Their rule was a peaceful one but Cherubimon has recently declared war. When you humans came, Takuya found the Spirit of Fire. It had chosen him to be his personification."

Koichi nodded pretending to understand half of what he said. The last part was kind of out there for him. "It doesn't make sense but, hey– It saved our lives," the goggle head said, showing that he too didn't fully understand everything that had been said. Takuya stood up, stretching. "Well, let's get Tommy and JP to the Trailmon station," he said, heading towards the Trailmon station.

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A red Trailmon was sitting at the station. The yellow rabbit named Neemon pointed to the Trailmon, saying, "You can take that Trailmon back to your world. All you have to do is hop on and whoo whoo! Off you go!"

"Really?" asked JP. "It's that simple?"

"Yep!" affirmed Neemon in his dopy high pitched voice.

"Neemon! You dope!" cried Bokomon, pulling on the rabbit's pants away from them. "I need to talk to you for a minute."In the background, they could hear Bokomon chewing out Neemon and the yellow rabbit's yelps of pain as they talked– or more of Neemon being punished.

"Well, let's blow this joint," JP said to Tommy, heading towards the platform.

Takuya watched as JP went off and looked back at Tommy. The boy seemed hesitant on following the eldest member. "Aren't you going, Tommy?" asked Takuya.

"Well, I did but now I don't want to," Tommy answered, looking up at Takuya.

The elder boy shook his head and pushed him towards the train, saying that it was too dangerous for him. Koichi took note that he seemed more worried about the boy. Tommy took one last look back at the three before following JP who offered him a hand to get back onto the platform across from them. Takuya looked at Zoe. "So, are you going?" he asked.

"Oh, are you worried about me?" Zoe teased with a smile.

"No, I just don't want to be responsible for you, girl," Takuya answered, slightly annoyed with the girl. Koichi blinked. Was she… flirting with the goggle head?

Zoe turned to face him with her hands on her hips, obviously annoyed that he refused to call her by her name. "This girl has a name," she exasperated.

"Fine, Zoe," Takuya corrected himself crossly. "I'm still not going to be liable if you get hurt."

"Nice one, Romeo, but I can take care of myself," the blond huffed, crossing her arms and turning away from them. Koichi was beginning to think that she might not have been flirting with him after all.

Takuya grumbled to himself for a few seconds before looking towards Koichi. "What about you?" he asked. "Are you staying or going?"

Koichi was taken aback. He wasn't often put in the spotlight to make snap decisions. "Um…" he began. I really need to get back to Mom, he thought with a frown. He had to admit, this place was both scary and intriguing but his mother was probably worried sick about him. Besides, Koji isn't around here. If I don't go home, I might not be able to catch up with him today. "I guess I should go back."

At that, Strabimon reminded that he was still there. Strabimon roughly grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back and was growling in his face. "You can't leave," he said threatenly with narrowed eyes. His glare seemed to pierce through Koichi's skin like cold daggers, making the boy shiver. "You've been chosen by the Spirit of Light. You're destiny is tied here, got that?"

Takuya jumped at Strabimon. "What the heck?" the boy shouted, grabbing the dog Digimon by the arm that wasn't holding Koichi. "You can't just make him stay! That isn't right!"

"If Koichi wants to leave, he can," Zoe agreed from behind Takuya. Both were glaring at Strabimon. Zoe gave Koichi a glance and asked in a softer voice, "Do you want to stay? You don't have to. You can leave, no one is forcing you to stay or to go. It's entirely up to you."

Koichi looked between the three. Strabimon had his glare focused on Takuya who was returning it with equal vengeance. Zoe on the other hand had a sincere look on her face. He didn't want to stay but there was something telling him to stay. His mind wandered back to the message that he had gotten from the woman's voice: "Find the Spirit and you may find what you're looking for." Maybe she knew that she was looking for her brother. Maybe what she meant was he'd be able to find him here; there had been other trains…

"I'll stay," he answered. The three glanced at him. Takuya and Zoe looked at him with mild surprise.

"Are you staying because he's telling you to?" Takuya asked, his voice still vexed as he pointed an accusing finger at Strabimon.

"Um…," he answered hesitantly. "I-It's actually because I'm looking for something."

Takuya sighed. "Okay but I'm not responsible for any of you," he said. Zoe rolled her eyes and muttered something about boys and damsels in distress.

"You won't be responsible for him," Strabimon said coldly. "I am. He's my partner, even if I don't like it. He is the chosen boy for the Spirit of Light."

The Trailmon, bored of just waiting, began leaving the station. They all watched as he left. When the smoke cleared, all three humans were surprised to see Tommy and JP standing there, both rubbing their heads. "What the-? Weren't you guys heading back to the Human World?" asked Takuya, astonished that the two had stayed behind.

"Well," Tommy began, rubbing the back of his head. "I didn't want to go back, really."

"I have no clue about me," JP answered but Tommy knew otherwise. JP hadn't even boarded the train after Tommy. JP kept quiet about the weird feeling of an unfinished business he needed to work out.

"Well, I'm not going to be responsible for either of you," Zoe stated. Takuya looked at her with annoyance.

"Are you really trying to mock me?" he groaned. "I'm doing the fighting."

"Yeah, but we all have those D-tector things," Zoe argued. "Besides, the girls are always doing all the work."

"Oh really? From what I've seen, girls are constantly kidnapped," Takuya muttered to himself. "I'm pretty sure that you'll constantly be kidnapped."

"Is my name Peach? I can be of use," she growled.

Bokomon walked up to them, pulling Neemon behind him. The poor rabbit was hugging his sore body. "She could be right," Bokomon said. "There are other Spirits. We only have one of ten."

Zoe grinned happily. "See?" she asked in Italian. Takuya just gave her annoyed look before looking away defeated.

JP had his head cocked to one side with a smile on his face. The group began walking away from the village.

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The dark haired boy stood on the hill, casting his gaze out at the trees below. Only hours before, he noticed the eruption of power while on the search for any of the other five Spirits.

A soft breeze broke across the scene, rustling the wind and the boy's long hair. "It's so peaceful," he mumbled to himself. "For once my head doesn't feel so cluttered."

His short peace was abruptly cut short when a small weasel-like Digimon with grey fur, a long tail, and with long black talons came towards him at a run. "There's nothing there, Koji," reported the Digimon, rising onto his back haunches and becoming level with the boy's hip.

Koji looked at the weasel with a death glare, annoyed from having his peace being disturbed. The Digimon snorted, as if used to it. "Master Cherubimon wants us to find those Spirits, you know," the Digimon reminded his partner.

Koji gave a stiff nod. "Right, Gazimon," he admitted. "Let's go then." Koji began walking away and Gazimon was hot on his heels, going onto all fours after his partner.

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By sunset, they had made it to a wasteland like area. They followed the train tracks as they headed in the opposite direction of the setting sun, so they could only assume they were going west. Being in a different world, the raising and setting of the sun could have been different. The small band of five humans walked in a straight line by the tracks in silence, the Digimon trailing behind them.

Only moments before, Bokomon had went on a tirade, trying to get Takuya to swear that he'd save the Digital World. Takuya had shrugged him off with a sigh. Suddenly, from their pockets, the five humans' D-tectors began ringing shrilly. Alarmed they pulled them out and were just told by the woman, "Go to the Forest Terminal immediately."

"What do you mean?" Takuya asked the mysterious benefactor. "Where can I find this Forest Terminal?" But the woman's voice didn't answer; the odd symbol adorning their screens disappeared.

Seeing that they wouldn't get another answer, they all pocketed their D-tectors. "What's a Forest Terminal?" Zoe questioned Bokomon, who had flipped open his book.

"The Forest Terminal," he mumbled to himself. "A place in the middle of the Forest Kingdom. I wonder what could be there?"

"How exactly do we get there?" asked JP and Takuya.

"We just follow the tracks," Bokomon answered, not looking up from his book. When Neemon asked how far, the small gnome Digimon answered frustratedly, "All the way!"

The five sighed. As they walked, Koichi couldn't help but let his mind wander. Maybe there's something at the Forest Terminal that could help with whatever she said I was looking for, he thought to himself. But what exactly could it be? On the verges of his hearing, he could hear JP claim that he was sunburnt but Takuya seemed to be laughing about something. Pulled back into reality, Koichi watched as JP marched ahead in a huff. The boy blinked to himself, wondering what was wrong but was too scared of having his apparent annoyance backlash at himself.

From behind, Bokomon was half dragging Neemon with him. Sick of the silence, Bokomon went in stride with Strabimon who was keeping distance between himself and the entire group. "So, what were you doing in that hole?" asked the gnome to the wolf Digimon.

It gave him a cold glance but didn't answer, so Bokomon continued: "You're a Digimon I've never seen before and that's a rare even to even happen since I have see almost all Digimon on the face of the Digital World. Just where are you from?"

Strabimon narrowed his eyes in annoyance. "The Spirit of Light," he answered, as if the Book Keeper should have known this.

Bokomon blinked. "The Spirit of Light?" he asked. "You came from the Spirit or for?" Strabimon glared at him one last time before walking a head. Bokomon gave him a disgusted look for his disrespect and began to think about the other's response. "From or for?" he wondered to himself.

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It was nightfall when they came to a chasm. The tracks cut off before them and the earth opened up, revealing a small river at the bottom of the drop. Koichi thought he could see the flickering of lights below as he heard Takuya groan, "Great, now what?"

"Hey, there's a trail over there," JP said, pointing down the chasm. There sat a narrow path hugging the cliff descending towards the bottom. Being sure to carefully take it, they went one at a time towards the bottom. Tommy shivered, thinking that he could feel something watching them. When they came to the bottom, Koichi noticed the lights had disappeared. Apparently, Zoe had noticed it as well.

"Hey, weren't there fires down here?" she asked. Takuya gave her a look as if he thought she was crazy.

"You must have been imagining it," the goggle head said, putting his hands behind his head. Zoe opened her mouth to argue but Tommy had cut her off.

"Hey, Bokomon, who's that?" he asked. Everyone turned towards Tommy and saw him pointing towards a carving engraved in the wall before him. One was that of an angel with several sets of wings in the form of a small boy. Around him was a series of strange symbols. "Hey, one of them looks like the symbol that Agunimon wears on his belt!" Tommy exclaimed, pointing to one of them near the top.

"Hey, the one next to it looks like the one that Strabimon has," commented Koichi, looking at the one on the right of the symbol that Tommy was pointing to.

"Oh my word," Bokomon cried, jumping and looking back at the Digimon. "Strabimon, you have something to do with the Spirits of Light?!"

Strabimon was annoyed by this sudden realization on the small gnome Digimon's part. "Tch, of course," answered the Digimon offhandedly. "I said that before. You're too dense to be the keeper of the book, aren't you?

"And you appeared just as Koichi fell," Bokomon continued. "That means Koichi is the Chosen Child of Light! Koichi, you have to help us! You must Spirit Evolve with the Spirit of Light!"

"Hang on," cut in JP, crossing her arms. "If Strabimon is from the Spirit of Light, how come Takuya didn't get a partner like him?"

"JP does have a point," Zoe admitted. JP went crimson and tried to hide a smile.

"I don't want a partner like him," Takuya grumbled, exchanging side glances with Strabimon.

Bokomon didn't hear the boy. "We have a new Legendary Warrior in our midsts and I didn't even now! This is just amazing!" he clapped. "Now we have to find the others! The other Spirits must belong to you three!"

JP grumbled, hoping that he'd just awaken from this stupid dream. Tommy grinned like a child at Christmas, hoping for a big and powerful Digimon. Zoe looked thoughtful, hoping that her own was a beautiful and strong Digimon. Takuya shrugged while Koichi seemed nervous. Destiny must have some crazy plan just to get me to meet my brother, he said to himself. Grandma always said I was eventually going to do something great but I didn't think she meant this.

The group had seen the light before the voice. "Legendary Warriors?" shouted a series of voices from behind them. They all spun around to see tall animated candles with arms made out of the wax from it's body and the flames on top of their heads peering at them with blue eyes.

"W-who are they?" The humans backed away slightly, unsure if they were friend or foe.

"Those are Candlemon," Bokomon replied, not too worried. "They don't pick fights for Evolution. There's nothing to worry ab-!" Bokomon had spoken too soon; the candles began shouting insults and spitting flame balls at them.

"Stupid humans!" cried the Candlemon. "You are only going to cause us problems. Go back to Cherubimon, Legendary Warriors!" They began charging after the humans and Digimon. The entire group began running away in hysterics.

"Bokomon, I think that these might not be the normal 'Candlemon' you deal with," shouted Zoe.

Tears formed in Tommy's eyes as his find flashed back towards the human world. Earlier, kids had chased after him, much like this only to pummel him into the ground and push him around just before they all had gotten the text message and he was dragged to Shibuya Station. "Why are they chasing us?" he cried out in a scared voice, letting the fearful tears flow.

"Oh, come on, Tommy," JP said. "Now isn't the time to cry!"

"Someone shut that kid up!" Strabimon shouted. "If you're the Chosen for any of the Spirits, I'd have to kill myself here and now."

Takuya shot him a glare. "Shut up, mutt!" he cried.

"Guys, we shouldn't be fighting here," Koichi stammered.

Fireballs fired passed them. "Everyone, into the river!" shouted Takuya, coming to a screeching stop and pulling out his D-tector. "You guys get out of here and I'll hold them off."

"You suicidal?" called Zoe.

"Oh, look who's worrying," Takuya shouted back. "Just go, I'll be right behind you after I deal with them."

"Die like a hero, then," JP grumbled, jumping into the water. Zoe followed him hesitantly. Tommy watched the boy and didn't want to move. Koichi tugged on the boy's sleeve, saying that there wasn't anything for them to do. Both of them didn't want to go but the older boy was right, there wasn't anything they were really able to do. They jumped into the river just as Takuya Spirit Evolved into Agunimon.

The Flame Warrior noticed that Strabimon hadn't jumped in with the others. "Go with them!" he shouted.

Strabimon narrowed his eyes at the taller Digimon. "There's no way," he said. "It's my duty to fight off any risks that harm my partner, even if he is too weak to fight for himself."

"Fine." Agunimon was aggravated enough from this Digimon for the day that he really didn't want to fight him at that moment. He turned his attention towards the small army of candle Digimon. "Ya know, ganging up on people who can't defend themselves isn't such a bright idea," Agunimon stated, readying a Pyro Punch.

"We're not going to fall for that!" shouted a Candlemon. "We're protecting our land's data from your master, Cherubimon. Lava Loogie!" Flame balls were spat at from all sides at the two Digimon. Agunimon encased himself in flames as he wheeled around in a Pyro Tornado, snuffing out the enemies' fire. Strabimon easily dodged them and slashed at them with his glowing talons. For a good while, they were able to hold them off but the Candlemon just kept coming.

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From a distance, the four humans and two Rookie Digimon safely watched as Strabimon and Agunimon fought. Fed up with watching the two and his own growing sense of powerlessness, JP began swimming away. "Let's get out of here while we can," he said. "I knew I should have taken that stupid Trailmon home."

"JP, we can't just leave them," Zoe said. "They're fighting so we can be safe."

"Exactly," JP pointed out. "Takuya,"–he said the name with slight jealousy–"is allowing us to escape, Z."

"But, isn't there something we can do?" asked Tommy, looking up at the older boy.

Irritated, JP let out an exasperated sigh; no one was understanding this. "There is nothing we can do."

If only I have my Spirit, Tommy thought with a frown. I don't want to be scared and run. I want to help Takuya and Strabimon. But what can I do? Agunimon and Strabimon were now being pelted with wax that seemed to pierce through their armor, making them cry out in pain. A feeling of strength overcame Tommy suddenly. He dove into the water and began swimming towards the battle.

"Tommy, get back here!" shouted JP and Zoe but the boy had disappeared into the water.

Bokomon and Neemon from their perch on a rock nearby, fretted. "What is Tommy doing?" the Digimon said to himself. Koichi got a faint idea of what it was. He felt slightly envious of the small boy who wanted to help his friend to the best of his ability, even if there was nothing he could do.

Tommy popped out of the water, taking the hat off his head and began using it to splashing the water at the Candlemon's fireballs and the Candlemon themselves. "Quit picking on them, you big bullies," the small child shouted with a determined look on his face.

Agunimon peeked at the boy. "Tommy, what are you doing?" he shouted at Tommy. "I thought I told you to get out of here!"

Strabimon grumbled to himself. Stupid kid, he thought. Does he want to die?

Still determined, Tommy kept at it, allowing Agunimon a chance to get an attack at one of the Digimon closest to him. The Candlemon changed their attention to Tommy and began rushing at him. The boy froze like ice, unsure of what to do now. He wanted to run but he also wanted to fight. "TOMMY! RUN!" shouted a chorus of concerned voices.

Suddenly, there was a blast of freezing air flying across the cavern. The water froze from the sudden change of temperature but had Tommy rise onto the sheet so his feet weren't frozen in place. Everything else had felt the sudden change in air temperature– all except Tommy. The boy, bewildered, returned his wet hat to his head when a figure suddenly materialized before him. It was a figurine of a small white bear in strange green armor.

"It's the Spirit of Ice!" cried Bokomon from afar.

Tommy had heard him. "The Spirit?" he whispered to himself. A weird instinct overcame him and he pulled out his D-tector. The Spirit of Ice was pulled into the device and with a cry of "Spirit Evolution" and a flash of light, Tommy had turned into a humanoid polar bear the same size of the child wearing the green headgear, a holster, and boots that the figurine had. The small bear inhaled a deep breath and fired it with a shout of "Crystal Freeze!"

The Candlemon froze suddenly. The small bear ran up to Agunimon and Strabimon. "Tommy?" asked Agunimon.

The small bear grinned up at Agunimon. "Yep~!" he answered.

"Let's not just stand here," growled the wold Digimon, running past them. "Licht Bein!" He landed a roundhouse kick on one of the Candlemon, destroying the ice. The remaining Candlemon fled while Strabimon frowned. "Cowards."

From the data that swirled around the destroyed Candlemon, Agunimon and the small bear scanned the data, only for it to return to the land above them a second later and bringing the missing bridge back. Zoe, JP, Koichi, Bokomon, and Neemon approached them.

"Bravissimo!" cheered Zoe as she ran up to the three. "Bravissimo!"

"Uh, thanks?" Agunimon said, awkwardly. He hadn't at all been expecting a complement from the blond.

"It's Kumamon, the Warrior of Ice!" Bokomon exclaimed, opening the book of his to a picture that looked much like what Tommy had turned into. The two humans turned back into their humans selves.

"That was really brave of you," Takuya said, turning towards the boy. "Reckless but– hey, I would have done the same stupid stunt. Thank you, Tommy." Tommy grinned up at Takuya, truly feeling that he had accomplished something.

He glanced down at his D-tector with a smile. Thank you, Kumamon! Now maybe when I return home, I won't be so scared. The group quickly left the small chasm, just in case the Candlemon decided to come back for revenge with more.

Zoe was excited to see her Spirit. I wonder what mine will be like?

JP launched glances at Tommy. Why am I still here? Is it because Tommy is and Zoe and I feel responsible? Or is it something more? And why didn't something like what had happened for Koichi and his Spirit happen to Tommy? Will it happen to my Spirit or Zoe's? JP shook his head. No! I'm taking the next Trailmon home…

Chapter 2: End.

Okay, for those who want to see Koichi evolve soon, it'll be a few more chapters. That will happen in like chapter… six or seven. If those of you who have read some of my earlier Frontier stories, you might not know, but I'm now referring to Bokomon as a gnome Digimon since… he looks like a gnome, right? Well, I'm maybe over doing JP's beginning personality a bit? Next chapter, things should get better with that. :P Well, this didn't turn out how I thought it was. If I went the way I hoped to, this would have been long.I think no one wants to read more than nine pages of a story at once.

Anyway, please R&R. Hope you enjoyed this chapter.