Chapter 2: Spirit of Light Shines Again
"Bokomon, what's going on with the Digital World?" Takuya asked. " And who was that digimon I fought?"
"Both question have a complicated answer I'm afraid. Let me start with your second question." Bokomon said. "The digimon you fought is called Exuromon, and in truth, he is not actually a digimon."
"What does that mean?" Izumi asked.
"He is really a human, just like you all." Bokomon replied.
"WHAT?" All the kids yelled at once.
"There are more humans in the Digital World? How is that possible?"
"No one knows how or when they came, but a group of humans one day suddenly appeared with digivice like your own, and digivolved into digimon to reek havoc on the Digital World. They say they wish to rule the Digital World, but they do not take the digicode even when told where it's hidden."
"Strange," Kouichi says.
"You said it." Kouji agreed.
"Well then we just gotta' get everyone's spirits back and kick their butts!" Takuya declared.
"It won't be that easy Takuya." Kouji protested. "We don't even know what kind of powers these guys have, how do you know we'll be a match for them?"
"I already fought one of them, and he was a cake-walk." Takuya boasted.
"I highly doubt that was his real power, and even then the others may be way harder."
"Alright already, I get it." Takuya finally agrees. "But the first step should still be getting everyone's spirits back."
"That's right." Izumi agreed. "If we don't have our spirits, we won't be able to do anything anyways."
"I'm afraid it won't as easy as that." Bokomon interrupted.
"Huh, what do you mean Bokomon?" Tomoki asked.
"You see, I'm afraid your enemies have already collected all the other spirits. Takuya's was the last one they needed, and you all came just as he was about to get it." Bokomon answered regretfully.
"What, they have our spirits? You've got to be kidding!" Junpei couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"In order to get your spirits back at this point, you would have to defeat the ones keeping them. And right now, the only one who can fight is Takuya." Bokomon told the others.
"So now what do we do?" Izumi wondered.
"Looks like we've got no choice." Kouji began. "I'm not normally the one who charges into the battle but that's the only way to get our spirits and fight back."
"Well then what are we waiting for? Lets go find those guys!" Takuya declared.
"Oh please, allow us to save you the trouble." A voice suddenly said around the corner, and two kids about their age walked up in front of them. One was a boy, the other was a girl.
The boy had a bright red shirt with a picture of a fire on it, had black jeans on, and wore a pair of sunglasses, and he had spiky black hair. The girl was wearing light blue short pants and a blue jacket, and had blonde hair that went down to the middle of her back.
"You guys must be..." Takuya asked.
"That's right, the humans bent on controlling the Digital World." The boy said, pushing his sunglasses up, revealing his golden-yellow eyes.
"And we're here to take back that spirit you have." The girl said, extending her hand as if expecting to get it without a fight.
"As if I'd just hand it over to you!" Takuya told them.
"Oh, then how about we make a little wager then." The girl said. "I believe you want this," She began, holding up a digivice in her hand and the Kouji's spirit of light was shown. "So the deal is, beat me and you get this spirit, you lose and I get yours."
"Don't kid arou/" Kouji began.
"Alright then." Takuya agreed. "But on one condition. You and I fight one-on-one."
"Takuya!" Kouji shouted.
"It's alright Kouji, I won't take her lightly." Takuya reassured him.
"I agree." The girl responded. "But first allow me to give you a proper introduction. My name is Mitsuko, this one is Takeshi." Mitsuko said, pointing back at the boy.
"Takuya," Takuya replied. "Now that that's done with, lets get started shall we?" He asked pulling out his digivice and beginning to digivolve. "Spirit..." He said, scanning the ring of data around his hand. "...evolution!" He called, then became the legendary warrior of fire... "Agnimon."
"This should be good." Mitsuko said and began to digivolve herself. "Spirit..." She called, scanning the ring of data around her hand. "...evolution!" She called, then becoming a digimon herself. "Lamperomon."
Lamperomon is what she called herself, the armor on her arms and legs looked as if they were supposed to be pads worn when skateboarding, then she had her chest clad in armor, but was exposing her midriff. She also wore a helmet that resembled the head of a tiger that also had the symbol of light on it, but it was upside down, just like Takeshi's digimon form.
"I'd like to ask one more question before we start." Agnimon said. "How is it you guys can evolve into Digimon?"
"Hm, I thought that would be kind of obvious, but I guess it was just me." Lamperomon replied. "We created them." She answered, stressing each word.
"You... created them?" Agnimon was shocked.
"Yea, we created every detail, their appearances, their attacks, and even the digivices were our own personal creation. We did do some modeling after the original spirits though, I guess you could call them 'artificial spirits'." Lamperomon replied.
"Well then, I guess that's it, lets get started." Agnimon said, and began the battle. "Burning Salamander!" He called, throwing fist-fulls of fire at Lamperomon, who jumped up and at him.
"Shining Claw!" Lamperomon called, and her fingertips glowed and extended at Agnimon, but he jumped to the side to get out of the way, then tackled Lamperomon down.
"Pyro Darts!" Agnimon said throwing three small darts of fire at Lamperomon, but she got up and flipped back out of the way.
"Flash Drive!" Lamperomon called, running at high speeds at Agnimon hitting him hard in the gut with her elbow and knocking him back. "Had enough yet?" Lamperomon bragged on her strength.
"Don't kid yourself." Agnimon replied as he struggled to his feet. "I'm just getting warmed up; Pyro Darts!" He said throwing more dart of fire at Lamperomon who dodged them easily. "Burning Salamander!" He said, throwing fists of fire at Lamperomon right after the darts, and Lamperomon put her arms up to block, although the fire still burned her. When Lamperomon put her arms down Agnimon was suddenly in a twister of flames heading strait for her. "Salamander..." He began, the kicked Lamperomon right in the gut with amazing force. "...Break!"
Lamperomon stepped back and her digicode appeared, showing not only her artificial spirit, but Kouji's spirit as well. "Now my chance." Kouji said, taking out his digivice and pointing it for the spirit. "Spirit!" He called, and the spirit returned to his digivice, and it showed the symbol of light. Kouji scanned the ring of data that appeared around his hand. "Spirit Evolution!" He called, evolving into the legendary warrior of light... "Wolfmon." He stepped up in his digimon form just as Lamperomon returned to normal.
"Takeshi, digivolve now!" Lamperomon order.
Takeshi took out his digivice and pulled up his shades with an unusually happy grin. "Don't got to tell me twice." He replied, and began to digivolve. He scanned the ring of data around his hand. "Spirit Evolution!" He called, and digivolved into his artificial spirit of fire... "Exuromon."
"Incinerator Flame!" Exuromon called, throwing a large twister of fire down on Wolfmon and Agnimon , who both leaped to the sides to avoid it.
"Licht Seiger!" Wolfmon called as he pulled out one of his blades of light and ran at Lamperomon.
"Don't think you can beat me!" Lamperomon called. "Flash Drive!" She yelled, and ran past Wolfmon, knocking him down on the way, but he recovered quickly and slashed Lamperomon with his blade, knocking her down.
"Pyro Darts!" Agunimon called throwing small darts of fire at Exuromon.
Exuromon deflected the small darts without even trying, then ran up to Agunimon and grabbed hold of him. "Burning Touch!" He said, and his hand began to heat up to extremes, making Agunimon scream with pain.
"Get off," Agunimon said, head butting Exuromon away. "Burning Salamander!" He yelled and threw fist-fulls of fire at Exuromon, knocking him down as well.
Exuromon and Lamperomon slowly stood up. "Why," Lamperomon asked in agony. "Why can't we beat you?" She asked.
"It's the gap in experience." Agunimon replied, surprising Lamperomon and Exuromon.
"We fought as digimon for months in the digital world, you two haven't been here for all that long." Wolfmon said. "The difference between our skills are just too much for you to handle right now."
After hearing these words, Exuromon and Lamperomon ran away, leaving the digi-destined with the Spirit of Light now in their possession.
"You what?" A dark figure yelled at Mitsuko and Takeshi when they gave him the news about the Spirit of Light. "How could you let something like this happen?"
"We're sorry," Mitsuko apologized with fear in her voice. "The digi-destined are too strong, we can't beat them like this." She confessed.
"Insolence!" The shadowed figured shouted at the two.
"Hee, maybe those two can't," Another figure began. "But the two of us will be able to put those losers in their place." The boy's voice boasted with confidence.
"After all, we were always better than those two from the beginning. How hard can a couple others be?" A girls voice proclaimed.
"Very well, bring me back their Spirits or don't come back at all!" The shrouded figure told them, and made his leave.