Digimon Frontier: Taming the Darkness

Chapter 3: A Strange Occurrence! Lunar and Dracomon Make Their Debut!

Me: Hello everyone! Thank you for reading my story!

Petitmamon: Really? That's the best ya' got?

Me: Shut up. I'll have you now I have more favorites than a Soul Eater story!

Petitmamon: What's that? Like… 2?

Me: I said shut up!

Tsukaimon: Ehem.

Both: Ahh!

Tsukaimon: Sorry to interrupt your… heated conversation, but I have an informative clip of news for the readers.

Me: Well, if you can keep them here, you're already doing better than Petitmamon, who insulted them!

Tsukaimon: Sis! Never, ever insult the readers. They are the sole reason we exist.

Petitmamon: Whatever. I just think they're lonely people who need to get a li- *gets shoved in a bag*

Tsukaimon: Anyway. I apologize for my sister's behavior. Anything that she says you can just apply to her. Now, as I was saying, my little news clip. When the author said earlier in the…first chapter? Yeah, that sounds right. Anyway, the author said it was 15 degrees outside, well, she made Takuya say that, but you get the point.

Takuya: How did you know I said that?

Tsukaimon: How do you know how many different shirts Zoe has?

Takuya: Fair enough.

Tsukaimon: Anyway, when she said that, she meant 15 degrees Celsius. Japan uses the Metric System, and she didn't want an expert to come along and tell her off or something.

Me: And there you have it! Give him a hand, everyone!

*Silence*

Me: Alright! Tsukaimon will do these little clips every time I remember to do them. Because I actually… meant to… put this in the last one… He…he…he…

Everyone: Idiot!

Me: Okay! J.P, do the disclaimer.

*Silence*

Me: Where is he!?

Zoe: He's in the ER after RedPandamon beat him up.

Me: Oh, really? I guess he isn't getting his partner this chapter, then.

*A few clangs and crashes later*

J.P: I'm here! *In a full body cast*

Me: Ha! You thought I was actually putting you in! That's so… That's so…

Zoe: Pathetic?

Me: Yeah, exactly. He's pathetic. Now do the disclaimer.

J.P: *Sniff* Okay… but… you're a jerk!

Me: I know.

J.P: Ugh… Pandamoniam doesn't own Digimon. If she did… I probably wouldn't exist.

Me: And… Action!

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The harsh glow from the monitor grew brighter and brighter as two objects floated out of it. Their form changed from slightly rectangular objects, to small, flat spheres.

The two startled teens stared at them in awe as they took in what was in front of them. Two devices, almost exact replicas of Shinya's, were seated on the wooden desk directly on top of the cards they had set out. The one on the Dracomon card had on orange border around the screen and a pastel red strap with the symbol of fire on it engraved in black. The second was on a Vixiemon and a Renamon(Silver) card, which had a sky blue ring around the shiny, square rim, and a lavender strap with the symbol of wind in a greyish-blue font.

"Do you realize what this means?" Zoe exclaimed as she picked up the D-Arc she assumed was her's. (the one with the symbol of wind, for you slow people.)

"Yeah!" Takuya yelled as he jumped up to his feet, "This means that I just sent my little brother I was supposed to be watching to an actual Digimon. Alone. Without help."

The words seem to stick to their ear drums for a minute before they slid into their brains and began to process. An image of Tommy before he got his Spirit being attacked by Cerberumon flashed in front of their eyes. So, they did the only thing they could think of doing. They panicked.

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"These dumb pieces of junk are worthless! So what they can track Digimon? You can't even Spirit Evolve with them!" Takuya, at the moment, was attempting to use a function on his D-Arc that wasn't programed on to it. Of course, he completely ignored the fact that no matter how many times he stuck out his hand in front of him and yelled 'Spirit Evolution', it wasn't going to work. He kept doing it anyways.

"For the last time, Takuya! Doing that won't help!" At least Zoe was being sensible.

"Well then what are we supposed to do!?"

"I don't know! Maybe if you weren't acting like a child we wouldn't be having this problem!"

"What problem? We aren't having a problem. What gave you that idea, because we are definitely NOT HAVING A PRO-"

Takuya's annoying rant was quickly cut off as his friend came over and slapped him across the face. "Thanks, I needed that."

She sighed and looked at the Digivice that seemed strangely familiar despite being completely different then her old one. "We just have to figure out how to use these, that's all," she explained calmly.

"Really? Because it took us two episodes just to figure out how to use our normal ones," the ex-Warrior of Flame grumbled as he stared at his device.

Oh, so it's come to forth-wall breaking, huh?

"Who said that?"

Never mind…

"Well, if it took us that long…" The two moaned and sat back down. Even though these Digivices seemed just as simple as their old D-Tectors, something was just as complicated as the other ones as well. The simple design was what made it complex, as it took something specific to make them work just like the old ones.

Takuya stared at his for a while and quickly began pushing the six buttons on the toy-like device in a random order. "C'mon, C'mon! Do something already! Bring up the arrow doohickey like on Shinya's or something! Just don't-"

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

"Huh?" The screen finally lit up with color; red to be exact, and the compass-like function activated. "Yes!"

"What?" Zoe asked as she looked over at the male who was staring intently at the screen.

"I got it to work! I got it to work!" Takuya teased in a sing-song voice.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

The ex-Warrior of Wind stuck out her tongue at her friend and held up her D-Arc in victory. It only took a minute for them to realize that even though something had come up, they had no way of knowing if it was a good or evil Digimon. Well, not that they were aware of, anyways.

"Sooo… now what, Takuya?" Zoe asked nervously. Her gaze never once faltered from the glowing square.

"I guess we should go find this Digimon and figure out why it's here!" he responded energetically, as always.

"Sounds good to me!"

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Two large, clawed feet stomped the ground and jiggled empty trash cans as they went by. A thick tail swung back and forth, hitting anything that strayed too close. His pastel red eyes gleamed brilliantly through the dark alleys, though at first glance they were unnerving.

Seated on the creature's head was a small yellow ball of fluff with a huge, bushy tail tipped with white. It had four stubby little legs which were wrapped tightly around the dragon's pastel red horns, and big blue eyes that seemed to scream curiosity. Her eyes reflected light, so instead of unnerving people, she just sent out two glowing eyes that weren't frightening at all, but strangely friendly.

"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee're gonna get our Tamers, our Tamers, our Tamers. We're gonna get our Taaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmeeeee eeeeeeeerrrrrrrrssssssssssss ssssssssss! Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiich nobody can deny! Which nobody can deny! Which nobody can deny! We're gonna get our Tammeerrss! Which Nobody caaaannnn de. NYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY-"

"Lunar would you shut up!" the dragon roared angrily as the puff on his head jumped up and down in protest.

"But I'm boooooooooored!" she protested while sliding down his back and gnawing on one of his wings.

"Pwah ha ha ha ha! Lunar, that tickles! Cut it out!" His roars of laughter sounded more like a little kid with a megaphone then a dragon laughing his gut out.

"Leb meh fing meh fong!" Lunar shouted in response with a ragged pastel red wing in her mouth.

"Loo-ah, Luna-ah, sto-ah ha ha ha! Luna-ah ha! Lunar stop! You'll blow our cov-ah ha ha ha!" Lunar had now moved to gnawing on his shoulder, and had found his weak spot.

"Buh I ahnnah fing meh fong!" She protested, now moving back to his wing.

"Well you can 'fing' your freaking 'fong' later when we have Tamers! Now shut up and be on the lookout for you know!"

"Yef Drrcomnn…"

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Shinya laughed as Petitmamon finished telling him a story about when her and her sibling had been Fresh Level Digimon, while her brother merely blushed out of embarrassment. So sis is way cooler than me, Tsukaimon thought to himself, at least I don't sound like some backwoods gangster.

"And… and… and then he, he started choking on it! Oh man, oh man, BWAH HA HA HA HA!" She sure was selling it. But he was only a few days old, and mom was out doing stuff, and well… dad was listening to the war updates… well it wasn't pretty… He didn't know any better, and when your sibling hands you something that big and dares you to stick it in your mouth, you usually do just that.

"Oh come on, sis. Can't you talk about something else other than the day you choked me?" he complained rather loudly. A little too loudly.

"Who you talking to, Shinya?"

The teen flinched and slowly turned around. Of course, he expected to see the boy behind him, but the question seemed more like teasing then an actual, well, question.

The boy was wearing a white lab coat, which had a green shirt underneath it, and a pair of brown cargo pants. He had short brown hair and brown eyes, and if it wasn't for his facial features, the two could have been brothers. This was the boy his actual brother had introduced him to after coming back from his 'life changing' hour away from home. His name was Tommy Himi, who had taken on this look after deciding he would be a scientist and figured he would need to get used to wearing a lab coat. That and he claimed girls thought it was 'cute.'

"Oh… uh, hi… Tommy…" The two Digimon on his shoulders froze up and pretended to be toys. Tsukaimon, on the other hand, was having a bit of difficulty keeping up the charade.

"Seriously, do you really think I don't know a Digimon when I see one?" He pretended to be hurt, but his amusement shone through plainly.

"Well, I, er," Shinya was surprised at how Tommy was reacting to the whole Digimon thing. It was like he had seen them before in real life…

"So, where did you get it at?" He mentally slapped himself for being so stupid. Of course he thought they were toys! What else could he think they were!

"I, uh, got them from the store." Great! Now it sounded like he had gone to a really girly store to buy them and was ashamed to say so.

"Which one?" Tommy asked as he walked up to him and picked up Tsukaimon, whose eyes were beginning to sparkle out of awe.

"THE store," the reddish brunette responded quickly.

Apparently Tsukaimon knew something he didn't, because his male partner, out of nowhere, seemed to explode completely out of character and ask thousands of questions to the other startled teen.

"What was it like in the Digital World when you went all those years ago? Was it weird for you to turn into a Digimon? Did you and Kumamon ever talk to each other?" his questions came out in one jumbled mess, so it was next to impossible to make out what he was saying.

Tommy seemed to have his brain fried after the Messenger Monster finished his barrage of questions. "Shinya…"

"I can explain!" he shouted, but his response soon turned into a question. "But first, what did he mean when he said you 'turned into a Digimon'?"

"Well… I, uh… It's kind of hard to explain…" He smiled nervously and quickly looked over to Tsukaimon. "In fact, it's so hard to explain that the explanation itself will have to wait until school starts."

"Wait, why?" Shinya asked as Tommy began inching away from them.

"Number one, it will be really hard to explain without the entire gang," he started as his inching turned in to steps," Number two, my mom is finally letting me get a puppy after three years of begging, and if I'm late she won't let me get one."

"What gang?!"

"THE gang!"

Shinya half-smiled at his friend's joke. Using my own words against me, he thought, clever.

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Takuya and Zoe skidded to a stop next to an alley. Their D-Arcs had led them all over town, and even in circles, until they had singled out that the Digimon was indeed in that alley. Of course, as luck may have it, that specific route was dark, dreary, and downright creepy.

The two sat down to catch their breath after running at least 2 miles. They gazed hopefully at their Digivices, wishing that any moment the location would change to a… brighter lit alley.

"Well, might as well go in there, seeing we've run all the way here," Takuya panted as he rose up to his feet.

"I-I guess we should…" Zoe responded as she joined him in standing.

With that said, the two ex-Warriors walked up to the entrance to the narrow street and gazed down it. The shrieks of rats and occasional clangs of trash can lids echoed towards them. The darkness enveloping the entire street blocked out all sight of the creatures inhabiting it.

"So then… let's go!"

Energetic as always, Zoe thought, hopefully we won't get killed because of that.

With Takuya in the lead, the two slowly walked out of the light and into the darkness. The black seemed to ooze into their very being and chilled them to the bone.

"It sure is dark," Zoe whispered, almost jumping at the sound of her own voice.

"Nice of you to point out the obvious…" her male companion muttered while staring at his feet.

A rat's squeak rang throughout the alley, causing Zoe to jump and grab hold of the nearest thing by her. That thing just so happened to be Takuya's arm. A warm blush quickly covered Takuya's face as he felt the girl's warm touch on his skin.

"Z-Zoe, it was just a rat," he stammered as his face grew darker red.

Her face heated up and she quickly released his arm. "S-sorry about that…"

"No problem…" the gogglehead responded quickly as they continued on.

The duo slowly began to reach a turn. Takuya carelessly picked up his pace and accidentally kicked a garbage can lid, sending it skidding across the ground while letting off loud screeching noises. This set Zoe off again and she quickly made a grab for Takuya's arm.

"Zoe, I just kicked a lid, that's all," he sighed as the all-too familiar blush came back, "I mean seriously, it sorta seems like you like clinging to me." He smiled a bit as she immediately released his arm and looked away from him. Just the thought that she was grabbing him for that reason-

"That's not why!"

He smirked as he looked over to her reddening face and took hold of her hand. He felt her tense up as he entwined his fingers with hers. They were both blushing now, but at least Zoe wouldn't have to get grabby.

"We're just holding hands until we're out of the dark, got it?" Takuya smiled as he looked ahead, though in his mind he was wishing that they could do it longer than that.

"O-okay Taki…"

CLANG!

"Darn it, Lunar!"

They froze up as the voice reached their ears. A loud growl reverberated through the air and rattled their bones. A bang soon followed it, and a quiet whimper could be heard in the background.

"I think we should run now!" Takuya shouted as he turned to run down a random alley, only to come face-to-face with a pair of red eyes.

"Maybe we should run this way!" Zoe yelled as she yanked him in the opposite direction.

"Wait for me, Mommamon!" a high pitched voice squeaked loudly as a small bundle of fur leaped up on to her shoulder and licked her cheek.

"Ahh! Getitoffgetitoffgetitoff!" (Yes, that was done on purpose) The blonde grabbed hold of the small creature and began trying to yank it off. In pure panic, the ball of yellow fluff bit the side of the teen's hat and let out a small shriek of its own.

"AHM OUWWIE!"(translation: I'm sorry!)

"Hey, don't rip the fur off of your own partner!" the red eyed creature shouted as he stepped forward and attempted to grab the small sphere being thrown around.

"What are you talking about!?" Zoe shouted as she continued to pull on her apparent 'partner'.

"Yeah! An explanation would suffice!" Takuya added, causing his friend to stop pulling on the large eared fluff.

"Wow! Takuya knows what suffice means!" she teased while the two creatures joined in on the laughter.

That joke seemed to break the tension between the small group and they quickly stopped fighting. They looked at each other and grinned. The two were obviously Digimon as one was a turquoise dragon with a grey stomach. Its head had two large pastel red stag horns protruding from it. A pair of tiny ragged wings the same color his horns emerged from his back.

The other creature was a yellow ball of fuzz with huge oval shaped ears. She also had a bush-like tail with a white tip. Her eyes glimmered like a pair of sapphires in the night. Over all, she was very cute in appearance.

"So what's up? Why are you here?" Takuya asked as he shot the two of them a confused look.

"Can we tell you in a more… private place?" the large dragon whispered as he glanced around suspiciously, "She could be listening…"

"Why do you keep calling Virus Gatomon that?" the brunette exclaimed rather loudly, causing the two Digimon to pale considerably.

Within seconds, the dragon had covered the teen's mouth with his own scaly hand and looked over to the small fuzz-ball who nodded in response.

"We can't say Her name because She knows when you say it…" she whispered quietly. Soon after saying this she jumped into the air, spun around a few times surrounded in pinkish light, and landed on the ground as a different creature.

She was now the same height as Zoe, but now stood on two legs and wore red sleeves on her arms. Her entire body was covered in silver fur except for a large white mane around her neck, her feet, her tail tip, and her stomach. Her legs had purple yin-yangish symbols on them, and her back had small silver wings on it, only the wings had no use what so ever.

"How did you-! What did you-!" Takuya started but didn't finish.

"First off, I'll just tell you our names so we can talk like civilized whatevers," the male dragon hissed, "Second, Lunar can freely switch between her Rookie and In-Training forms, which is what she just did."

"So your name is Lunar?" Zoe smiled as she looked over to the humanoid fox.

"That's right. I am a Renamon at the moment, but I will mainly be a Vixiemon when not in combat," she quickly explained as her ears twitched in fear.

"So then what are you?" Takuya asked slowly as he looked over to the nervous looking dragon.

"I'm Dracomon, and that's about it," he responded as he flexed his claws, "But right now, we need to leave."

"Why?" the humans asked simultaneously.

A mist slowly floated in and wrapped around their legs. A sound that greatly resembled a crane at rest slowly wafted in with it and filled their ears. A menacing pinkish glow as well as the light of headlights soon lit up the fog.

"That's why," Dracomon squeaked as an enormously loud roar erupted from the lights.

"Why is that thing here?" Takuya shouted as the dragon pulled him away from whatever had just literally come out of nowhere.

"This is what happens when you say Her name! She locates you and sends one of her minions to do her dirty work!" Lunar stated as she dragged Zoe behind her.

"But why?"

"Because She needs who ever knows Her name, Her cursed name, to be eliminated, as they must be connected to the Legendary Warriors somehow!"

"Why do they have to be eliminated?"

"Because you are the Digital World's last hope! The Warriors have almost all been defeated, so Lady Ophanimon turned to the last resort plan. That plan was to send the 6 children who once saved us back to the Digital World, but this time with partners."

"And those partners are?"

"We are your partners! Shinya already has his! Thanks to Mr. Bigmouth we now have to deal with one of her many servants!"

"Well excuse me! How was I supposed to know I can't say 'Virus Gatomon'?"

"SHUT UP!"

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Shinya smiled as he ran the last block to his house with Petitmamon and Tsukaimon clinging on to his shoulders for dear life. Just a few more minutes until I can rub these guys in Takuya's face, he thought with a smirk, hopefully Mom won't mind having them around.

"Shinya, stop!" Tsukaimon practically screamed, causing the boy to do as he was told.

"What's wrong?"

A loud mechanical roar suddenly burst into the sound barrier. The two Digimon cringed and huddled against their Tamer as they waited for the roar to pass.

"Okay, what was that?" Shinya squeaked as he looked over to where the roar had gone off.

"Digimon."

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YES! I finished it! After working on it for at least two weeks I finished it!

Ehem.

On a less excited note, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and the learning factor of this part of the story. Just for the record, I am in a really big hurry to type this note because my Mom just told me to go take my shower and I'm kinda supposed to have already taken it… So just read and review.

Finally, I would like to share with those who care(rhyme not intended) the fact that in one of the latest pokémon episodes, there was a mention of actual months. Apparently the Unova league doesn't start for another 3 months in their time. So Ash is actually going to age 3 months! O.O

Oh yeah, and for the record, the other characters won't come in until a few more chapters go by, then you'll see two of them, then another, then their school will start and you get to see them all. (Well, out of the Warriors, that is.)

Thanks for your time!

Pandamoniam