Chapter 3: A Storm Rolls in

"Now we have two of the Legendary Spirits back!" Bokomon said with joy while everyone was riding a trailmon.

"Those guys were pushovers though." Kouji said. "Do they really wield enough power to take over the digital world?" Kouji asked, but the Digimon's faces just saddened.

"Unfortunately, they do." Bokomon replied.

"They're really scary." Patamon said.

"And they show no mercy to any digimon that refuses to help them." Lopmon said shaking.

"That's awful!" Izumi couldn't believe there were human like this.

Takuya clenched his fists. "Man, who do those guys think they are!" He yelled in anger.

Suddenly a boom of thunder sounded, but it was surprising to everyone because there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. Then lightning began flashing on either side of the Trailmon until it came screeching to a halt, shaking Takuya and the other.

Once the Trailmon had completely stopped, everyone ran out to see what happened, and saw a Digimon flying just above. "Who are you?" Junpei asked the Digimon.

The Digimon landed on the ground then de-digivolved into a human. He had scruffy brown hair and blue eyes and wore a long-sleeve blue shirt with cargo pants. "Well my name is Haruki, but I think you can figure out the rest."

"Another of the Artificial Spirit users huh?" Kouji asked.

"Right, but don't think he's all you have to deal with this time." A girl stated as she walked to Haruki's side. She had blonde hair that went half way down her back and yellow eyes, and was wearing tight black pants with a short blue skirt, along with a purple T-shirt with a long-sleeve grey undershirt. "I'm Midori, and this can really become a lot simpler if you just hand over the Spirits of Light and Fire. Hand them over now without a fuss and we'll let you go back to the human world." Midori said, holding out her hand.

"Not a chance!" Takuya shouted back at her.

Midori's grin turned into a scowl. "Fine then, we'll do this the hard way; Haruki." She said and the two of them brought out their digivices and began to digivolve.

"Spirit..." Midori and Haruki called as they scanned the ring of data around their hands. "...evolution!"

"Kaminarimon!" Haruki called, back in his digimon form. In his digimon form he was covered in blue and gold armor that looked like the kind a paladin would wear, and held a spear taller than he was, and the signature upside-down symbol of thunder was found on both of his hands.

"Torimon!" Midori called as she digivolved as well. In her digimon form she was covered in armor of different shades of purple that was shaped to make her look like a metallic eagle, metal slabs as the wings that shoot out air like a jet pack to keep her in the air that both also had the upside-down symbol of wind.

"Kouji, you ready?" Takuya asked as he took out his digivice.

"You bet, let's get 'em." Kouji replied.

"Spirit..." They both said, scanning the data rings around their hands. "...evolution!" They both yelled and digivolved.

"Agnimon!"

"Wolfmon!"

The moment the two sides were in their digimon forms, they all jumped forward and clashed with each other. "Licht Seiger!" Wolfmon called and pulled out his blade of light, attacking Kaminarimon.

"Lightning Spear!" Kaminarimon called and his spear was enveloped in lightning, and they both fought with their weapons.

Torimon slashed Agnimon with her metal talons, but he then jumped away and prepared his attack. "Pyro Darts!" He called, darts of fire at Torimon.

"Aero Talons!" Torimon called and shot bullets of wind that clashed with Agnimon's Pyro Darts, canceling each other out. Afterward Torimon flew strait for Agnimon, hitting him with one of her wings and pulling him up into the air with it, then dropped him after rising a few dozen feet. "Full Gust!" She called and kicked a gale of wind that hit Agnimon and accelerated his decent, making him hit the ground with much more force, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Agnimon," Wolfmon called out as he saw this, but then had his attention forcefully brought back to his fight as Kaminarimon stabbed his lightning spear at him again. Wolfmon jumped back and pointed hi fist at Kaminarimon. "Licht Kugel!" He shouted and a laser shot from a gun on his arm heading for Kaminarimon.

However Kaminarimon span his spear making a wall of lighting that blocked the laser. "Pulse Lightning!" He called and thrust his spear toward Wolfmon and a bolt of lightning shot out a bolt of lightning that hit Wolfmon backward to the ground. "Hee, did the two of you really beat Takeshi and Mitsuko? That was a little easy." Kaminarimon said with a laugh.

Torimon agreed with her partner. "Yeah, I mean we didn't expect too much of a challenge but you could have lasted/"

"Burning Salamander!" Torimon was interrupted by this call coming from the dust cloud surrounding Agnimon, and out came two balls of fire that struck Torimon out of the air while she had her guard down.

"Torimon," Kaminarimon shouted in surprise as he watched her fall.

"Licht Seiger!" Wolfmon called, striking Kaminarimon in the side and making him fall to one knee.

Agnimon emerged from the dust cloud and walked up to Torimon, who had just stood up. "Don't go counting us out just yet." He told them.

"Yeah, it'll take a lot more than that to finish us off." Wolfmon added.

"Time to finish this." Agnimon said and readied another Burning Salamander attack while Wolfmon held up his Licht Seiger up to strike Kaminarimon.

But just when they were about to attack, Agnimon was struck in the side and knocked down by another digimon who then ran fairly quickly at Wolfmon and kicked him in the face, jumping off him and landing next to Kaminarimon. "Ah, Rigosmon!" Kaminarimon seemed surprised.

Rigosmon was a bit shorter than Torimon and Kaminarimon, and was decked in light blue armor. She also had a long cloth around her neck that flowed behind her in the wind that made her look very much like a ninja and had a cold mist crawling over her body and had the upside-down symbol of ice on her right shoulder.

"Who are you?" Agnimon asked Rigosmon.

"Well my digimon name is Rigosmon. If your asking for my real name, it's Rin." Rigosmon replied.

"Why are you here Rigosmon?" Torimon asked as she flew up to her.

"Is that anyway to talk to the one who saved your hide not just from these two but from him?" Rin question, and Torimon immediately fell quiet. "He didn't think you'd actually be able to beat them in a fair fight, so he told me to go and only enter the fight if you were losing but there was a chance of winning if I stepped in. I have judged this situation to be as much."

"We weren't losing." Kaminarimon argued.

"From my perspective you were." Rigosmon said. "In any case, we need to fight them, not each other."

Agnimon and Wolfmon prepared themselves as Torimon, Kaminarimon, and Rigosmon surrounded them and attacked. "Pulse Lightning!" Kaminarimon shouted and shot a bolt of lightning surged at Wolfmon.

"Licht Seiger!" Wolfmon called and blacked the lightning with his blade.

"Aero Talons!" Torimon said and threw bullets of air at Agnimon.

"Pyro Darts!" Agnimon said and tossed bullets of fire that canceled out Torimon's attack.

Suddenly, Rigosmon appeared between Agnimon and Wolfmon while they were busy blocking. "Right now, numbers is your weakness." Rigosmon told them punched them both in their faces, knocking them down.

"Agnimon," Izumi called.

"Wolfmon," Kouichi called.

Everyone was trying to think of a way they could help out, but without their spirits they really couldn't do anything. Then, much to everyone's surprised, the first ones to jump forward were Lopmon, Salamon, and Patamon. "Let's go!" Patamon told the other two, and then the three of them were surrounded by data rings.

"Lopmon digivolve to... Wendimon!" Lopmon called, digivolving to his champion form.

"Salamon digivolve to... Tailmon!" Called Salamon as she also became a champion level digimon.

And last was Patamon. "Patamon digivolve to... Angemon!' He called and now was a champion level.

"What, they digivolved?" Tomoki was just as surprised as everyone else.

"Amazing," Junpei added.

"You said their weakness was numbers, right?" Wendimon asked.

"Well how's out numbers now?" Tailmon followed up.

"Because it looks to me like we're just fine there." Angemon said.

"S-sure you've got three more now, it won't change anything!" Kaminarimon said unconfidently.

"Actually, he also told me to get back to base if their chances increased too much, so I'm leaving." Rigosmon told her companions and ran away, and quickly at that.

"Hey, get back here!" Torimon shouted after Rigosmon.

"So then, how about you both just hand over the spirits?" Agnimon said and got ready to fight.

"You were already outmatch when it was two-on-two, but now you're outnumbered too." Wolfmon added in.

"No way! We'll never hand them over!" Kaminarimon shouted back. "Thunder Pitch!" He shouted and swung his spear, and from it a slash of electricity was thrown at them all.

Agnimon, Wolfmon, Angemon and Wendimon all jumped out of the way while Tailmon got low and let the electric blast go right over her, and then they all surrounded Kaminarimon and Torimon.

"All together now," Agnimon said. "Burning Salamander!"

"Licht Kugel!" Wolfmon shouted.

"Hand of Fate!" Angemon called.

"Koko Crusher!" Wendimon called his attack.

"Neko Punch!" Tailmon said and all five attacks headed for Torimon and Kaminarimon.

In a last line a defense, Torimon called out. "Full Gust!"

"Thunder Pitch!" Kaminarimon also shouted and the two of them span around each other, creating a twister of lightning, but rather than cancel out all the attacks that came at them, it literally blew up in their faces.

Once the explosion cleared, both Kaminarimon and Torimon had data rings around their bodies, showing both their own artificial spirits and the legendary spirits of thunder and wind.

"Alright, my spirit." Junpei said and pulled his digivice, claiming his spirit of thunder from Kaminarimon.

"Mine too," Izumi cried out and used her digivice to claim her spirit of wind from Torimon.

After their spirits were claimed, Torimon and Kaminarimon returned to normal and stood up. "Had enough?" Wolfmon asked, and instead of saying anything the two of them merely turned tail and ran.

"Alright, that's two more spirits down, Excellente!" Izumi shouted with glee.

"Just leave two more." Kouichi said.