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Well hope you didn't have a bad wait

Anyways, I'm working on my Frontier 02 story

so if you're waiting for that, just hang tight

It's coming don't worry...

So let's get going and see where the digigang is...

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Chapter 4: Threatening Foes

"We have to get to the digital world as soon as we can." Kari said taking her D3 out. "Digiport Open." She said then they were sucked though the portal towards the digital world. This time, Cody stayed behind and gave TK the chance to see the digital world again.

"Tentomon, we're here!" Yolei yelled out for the red bug digimon.

"Oh thank goodness." He flew over and met up with them. He didn't really seem as happy as he usually is though.

"So what's going on?" TK asked him. "Well there a digimon attacking." He said quickly.

Davis rolled his eyes. "We know that, but where?" He said getting slightly annoyed. Tentomon just nodded and then flew away with the others following. They came into a clearing and saw a big red digimon with spikes on his fingers and blades on his feet. He was terrorizing some smaller digimon. "Hey big and ugly," Davis called out to him to get his attention. "Stop picking on the Kyaromon and start picking on someone your own size." He called out. The digimon then started to walk towards the goggle headed leader with an evil eye.

"So you think I should pick on you? You aren't even half my height." He said smirking.

"He's not, but I am." Veemon stuck up for his partner. The digimon just laughed, "You aren't even as tall as your partner there bub."

"So Hawkmon who is this guy?" Yolei asked her digimon, everyone also started to listen in. "Well this guy is Matadormon, he's a Virus type Ultimate digimon. His special attacks are Butterfly Trumpet Kick and Thousand Arrows." He explained.

"He's an Ultimate?" Kari sounded surprised. "Davis!" He turned around at the sound of Kari's voice. "Don't worry Kari, I heard what Hawkmon said." He said with a smile. "TK you have to do something." She said.

"Don't worry about it." He said as he watched Davis' battle. "If I know Davis, then he has some sort of plan up his sleeve."

"Alright Veemon let's get this guy!" He said oddly very loud, as if trying to inform his friends that he was going to start the battle. Veemon nodded and stood in a battle stance. "Doesn't he know that a Champion can't compete with an Ultimate?" Yolei remarked.

"Just let him be for a moment, would ya?" Gatomon told them.

Veemon digivolve to

ExVeemon

"Now let's kick some tail." He flew into the air catching the attention of Matadormon.

Vee Laser

He shot a beam at him but Matadormon blocked it with ease. "You think that's going to stop me?" He laughed again.

Thousand Arrows

He shot the blades on his hands out and started to aim them at ExVeemon, he was dodging them flawlessly but he was smirking at the same time just like Davis. "How can these two be so calm when in battle? Usually they're trying their hardest to beat the enemy as soon as possible but now, they look like they don't even care." Yolei said observing the way they were currently battling.

Suddenly, the bushes made a rustling noise and it started to get the digidestined a bit cautious of their surroundings. "What's that?" Patamon gazed at the bushes.

"Who knows?" Gatomon said. Just then, a strange digimon came from the bushes and attacked Matadormon with a giant blade.

Akinakes

He said and slashed at Matadormon who just barely got away. "Who's that guy?" Kari looked confused but Davis looked like he expected him to come out, then it hit her. Davis somehow knew that that digimon was in the bushes waiting to attack and that's why he yelled out that he was about ready to attack, to inform that digimon so that he can get his chance for a surprise attack. Kari pieced together Davis' plan.

"Hawkmon?" Yolei looked at her partner who rolled his eyes. "I got it Yolei, that's Dinohyumon, a Champion digimon, his Akinakes and Lizard Dance attacks will slice you up good. I'm glad he's on our side." He explained.

"He's only a champion?" Gatomon stared at the dinosaur digimon in disbelief.

"ExVeemon, you guys have to get this guy!" Davis shouted from the sidelines. "On it Davis." ExVeemon said and swooped in towards Matadormon.

Critical Crunch

He bit his opponent and caused him to scream in pain. "Get off me you over grown dragon." He tried to shake him off but it didn't work. He clung on like his life depended on it and when he got a signal from Dinohyumon, he flew off and got out of the way so that Dinohyumon could finish him off.

Lizard Dance

The dinodigimon slashed away with his little blades. Matadormon started to lose balance and got knocked back into a tree. He tried to shake loose of his pain but when he looked up again and tried to fight back. Dinohyumon was already on top of him with his huge blade.

Akinakes

He slashed at him and turned him back into a digiegg. The digiegg flew off in a direction and the digidestined, including Davis was shocked at what they just witnessed. Dinohyumon stood up straight and started to walk towards the digidestined, TK for one, didn't look very happy with what he did. "Hey, you didn't have to destroy that guy, even if he was evil. That gives you no right to..." but he was cut off by Davis when he gave him a look. He himself, didn't understand either but he gave Dinohyumon a chance to explain himself.

"So Dinohyumon, was it?" Davis asked him and the digimon nodded. "Could you explain to us why you destroyed that digimon?" Davis looked at him as Veemon came over as well.

"The digital world can be a cruel place sometimes, some things that don't want to be done, have to be even if you don't want it to." He explained. The digidestined didn't really get it at first then Gatomon came up to him.

"So what you're saying is that even if Matadormon was a bad digimon and you didn't want to kill him, you had to even for the sake of those around you."Gatomon tried to sum it up and while she was thinking about that, she was also thinking about Wizardmon and how he sacrificed his life to save hers and Kari's. He nodded but continued his explanation. "Yes but I didn't kill him entirely. He was just reverted back into a digiegg and sent to Primary Village."

"So that's what that floating thing was." TK said thinking back on the digiegg that appeared when Matadormon was destroyed.

"Digimon that get destroyed have a chance to begin anew and start a new life as a new digimon also, I'm here to inform you that there are a lot of evil digimon out there and even if you don't want to, you must destroy them, no matter what." He told them, they didn't like the sound of that but it was for the good of the digital world. So they agreed to their mission, and speaking of mission. "Um, Dinohyumon, have you seen any other humans around?" Kari asked him.

Dinohyumon had seen humans around but he had orders from his master, Lady Magnadramon, that the digidestined were never to be spoken of when humans, known as the digidestined, asked about them.

Flashback...

"My Lady, you have called upon my assistance?" Dinohyumon bowed before Magnadramon.

"Yes, I request that you guard the one known as Cindermon at the cave of courage. You shall guard him until you have met the new digidestined." She explained.

"Yes my lady, is that all?" He asked.

"No, there are other kids known as the current digidestined, have you heard of them?" She asked.

"Yes, I have." He said looking up with interest.

"If you ever meet these children, do not speak of the digidestined that you have or will meet understood?" He nodded but had one other question.

"Why mustn't I speak of these kids when they are looking for them as well?"

"For there are others seeking them, evil misguided others sent out to destroy them. This is so they are not to be found so easily and so that others aren't put in unnecessary danger." She explained to him.

"Understood..."

End of Flashback...

So he had no other choice but to lie to these kids even if he didn't want to. "I'm sorry but I haven't seen any other children other than yourselves." He told them as if he hadn't been lying at all to them.

"Well thanks for your help anyways and it's been a pleasure working with you." Davis smiled at him and shook his hand. Dinohyumon turned. "Until we meet again, digidesined." He then walked off towards the bushes.

"Well I don't know about you guys but I'm beat, I say we go home and get something to eat." Veemon told them.

"Yah, why not, it is getting pretty late." TK said to Kari.

"And we really don't have much to do here." Kari smiled back at him.

"So let's get going." Davis said and pulled out his D3 and the portal sucked them back into their world. They came back and met Cody who was sitting there and wondering what happened today. Yolei told him that it was the same old thing, evil digimon, they get attacked, they defeat him yata, yata, yata. They all returned home but were still aware of Gennais' mission for them, every passing kid, they checked if they were acting somewhat strange or something like that but nothing. But they weren't going to give up so easily either.

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Dai and the others came out of the school building together just as the school bell rang. They decided to go back to the digital world and see how Cindermon was managing. So they looked at their digivices and found that there was a spiral behind the faculty parking lot that was covered by a shed that the janitors use when their day was done.

"So we're going back today right?" Rumi asked.

"Yup." Dai responded and he looked at Roshi who just shrugged. Dai missed the old days when he and Roshi were the best of friends and were almost inseparable but that changed after just one day.

(A/N: If you guys like, I could write another fic about what they think about their friends and how they met them. Also a short story about maybe a tragic family story or something that happened to them in their childhood... I'll mention some facts in future fics)

"I'd like to go and find my own digimon if you guys don't really mind." Yoko smiled brightly.

"Me too." Kiyoshi agreed.

"I'd like to study these beings and see how they're able to operate." Kintaro said.

"Then let's get going." Dai led them towards the spiral and transported to the digital world. They ended up back at the place where they first found Cindermon but he was nowhere to be found as well as Dinohyumon. "Hey Cindermon, I'm back!" Daiki called out for his partner. They bushes then rustled and they were on guard of any digimon that popped out but it turned out to be Cindermon.

"Oh Dai, you're back!" He sounded relieved.

"Why what happened?" Dai looked at his partner with concerned. Cindermon explained that there was an evil digimon and that Dinohyumon had fought it but they were forced to make a break for it until Dinohyumon went back to finish the job.

"And that's the last that I heard of him." Cindermon finished.

"Well as long as you're safe." Dai hugged him again.

"So can we continue on or are we just going to..." Roshi started but was cut off by a beeping noise or noises. He looked at his digivice and it started to glow, when he turned to the rest of the group, he saw that Rumi's was glowing as well.

"So what are we going to do?" Rumi gazed at her digivice.

"You are going to follow those symbols and find your digimon before evil comes and tries to destroy them." Dinohyumon came out of the bushes behind them and walked towards them.

"All in one day?" Kintaro started to type in his computer and calculated how long it will take for them to follow 2 signals and not one.

"Sure, you can do it, and one of them isn't far from here." The dinosaur digimon looked in Rumi's direction. She pointed at herself and he nodded simply, she then cracked a smile and was celebrating in her mind. She couldn't wait until she got a digimon partner and so that Cindermon wouldn't be so lonely when they left.

"Are you coming with?" Cindermon asked the digimon who merely shook his head. "I have other things to do but fear not, you shall meet others who are guarding those digimon. Just show them your digivices and state your name and they shall befriend you no problem just like I did." He gave them an encouraging smile.

"Thanks for all of your help Dinohyumon." Dai shook his hand and they parted ways. They started to walk and followed Rumi's digivice. It seemed that the symbol ressembled an abstract heart while Roshi's looked like the yin and yang symbol with 2 thing poking out of the sides.

"We should be getting really close." Rumi was getting even more excited by the minute. They continued to walk for a few more minutes when they reached what looked like an old building with what looked like ancient writing on the walls. It was a circular building with a few cracks but looked like it could hold for about a few more centuries.

"In there?" Mayoko didn't really look so thrilled when they started about 15-20 minutes ago. "Come on Yoko, where's your sense of adventure?" Dai asked as he continued towards the inside of the ancient building.

"Any reading Rumi?" Kintaro asked suddenly. She shook her head while Roshi was silent like always. They walked about 50 meters until they came to the end of the pathway which led into a dark room with a light from up above shining on what looked like a pedestal. On top was what a bird like creature that stood up right and had weird markings around it's thigh and wrists. It had an armoured head with a single feather sticking out of it.

"So who do you think that is?" Kiyo looked at the statue.

"I think it's a bunch of trespassing kids that think they can barge in here and not get caught." A loud voice said and dropping in was a large digimon that had a tiger's body with a snake head on the end of its tail. Fore paws that resemble those of a birds feet, an armour protected head and two large red wings on its back.

"Who's that digimon?" Dai looked at the digimon as it stood in front of Rumiko and Kiyo.

"That's Gryphonmon, a mega mythical animal digimon which is composed by a bird and beast. His Solar Roar attack will ring your eardrums for good." Cindermon explained.

"How'd you know that?" Roshi spoke for once.

"Us digimon have some information on other digimon. It's kind of like it's programmed into our memory or something." He shrugged.

"Who might you be and state your business in being here." Gryphonmon glared at Rumi who stood protectively in front of Kiyo.

"I'm Rumiko Miura and me and my friends all followed a signal that led us here from this digivice." she showed him the gadget on her wrist. She then continued. "Dinohyumon also told us that this one was the closest that we'll find too."

When hearing that, Gryphonmon's expression changed. "I apologize and welcome to the Sanctuary of Love." He said.

"So who's this digimon and why's she so important that she was made into a statue?" Kintaro examined the art. "That knowledge you will know in time but for now, I cannot tell you." He said with a smile. "Figures." Kintaro sighed.

"Amazing." Rumi touched the statue and suddenly the pedestal started to glow a faint shade of pink. They all stood in their spots breathlessly as something emerged from the carved stone. A small little rabbit with golden rings around her ankles and long tail, stood in front of the small tower. She was stretching slightly, her belly, paws, ear tips and tail tip were all a light shade of pink and was grey from head to toe besides the pink.

The digimon raised her head and looked into Rumiko's eyes which were shocked and surprised. "Hello there, I am Clairmon, rookie level digimon. My special attacks are Golden Bust and Rainbow Shot. I am enchanted to meet you finally, Rumiko." She bowed slightly and stood gracefully. She was about the same height as Cindermon so she reached Rumi's waist.

"So you're my...partner?" Rumi's eyes were sparkling.

"I believe so." Clairmon smiled with amusement. "You must be Rumi therefore I am your partner."

"Oh this is amazing!" She hugged her and lifted her off her feet. Clairmon couldn't agree more.

"Yes this is great but we should be getting to Roshi's partner as well since I'm guessing that the symbol that we detect on our digivices are leading us to our partners." Dai said. Gryphonmon joined the group as well.

"I believe your leader is right, you must be heading out." Gryphonmon gazed down at Dai who looked at him with confusion on his face, as did everyone else for that matter. What does he mean leader? I'm not the leader of my group of friends, we make decisions together and as a team. Dai thought but decided not to ponder too long on those thoughts since they had a lot of ground to cover.

"Well you kids really should take this road, it will lead you straight towards your destination and that's where you will find your way home as well and some answers that you may seek." Gryphonmon told them and flew off in the direction of the castle.

"I'm guessing that he's working for Magnadramon as well." Kiyo smiled and waved goodbye to their new friend.

"Now let's head for the new digimon, home and some answers that we may seek." Cindermon said aloud and the digidestined laughed along the way, even Roshi cracked a smile or two but what these kids didn't know was that they were being watched. In the trees just above them, were two small figures. They looked like small, round, blue digimon who had two wings and no arms. DemiDevimon was the name of this digimon and even if he's just a rookie, he can cause a lot of trouble.

"Alright, you go and report back to the boss and I'll stay here and supervise these little children." The Demidevimon agreed and one flew off in search of their dark master. The little digimon flew as fast as his wings could take him until he finally reached an evil area known as the Dark Area.

(A/N: I know the Dark Area is a type of digimon but whatever, it sounded like an area...)

"Hey boss, I'm back with some news." The digimon said.

"Then spill it, are you following the digidestined like we planned?" An evil voice said from behind the shadows that hid his face.

"Yes your lordship, we are still tailing them without any further notice from them." He grinned.

"Excellent and let's keep it that way, I don't want to have those digidestined ruin my plans unlike the others that we had an encounter with. Make sure it does not happen again." He shouted startling the rookie.

"Yes sir, I'll get Musyamon on the next digimon sir." He said and the digimon dismissed him. The dark digimon just sat there in silence grinning to himself, thrilled that everything was going according to plan.

****

Meanwhile, the kids were nearing the area where Roshi's symbol indicated that they'll find the next digimon partner. He was somewhat excited but he still wasn't so sure about making any new friends when he didn't want to befriend the people that were with him all the time. He didn't really mind Rumi, she was nice enough and Kiyo was still pretty young so Roshi let him be but for the others, they still got what he planned to give everyone else. His never ending silence and unfriendly attitude.

They finally came to what looked like a crack in the ground and since they were right on top of it, the only way is to get down by crawling through the crack. They slipped in and were careful not to fall, they followed some steps that they found after they all came in.

"This is creepy." Yoko huddled closer to Dai which made Rumi blush slightly.

"Like I haven't heard that before." Cindermon rolled his eyes.

"Just keep going, hey Roshi you still have the signal?" Kintaro asked from the back of the pack. He nodded but it almost went unnoticeable since it was so dark. There was a glow on the walls but it still wasn't as good as sunlight or electricity.

"We're in a digital world and they've never heard of electricity." Yoko pouted. Usually she was a happy go lucky girl but I guess something about the digital world rubs her the wrong way. "Man this place is really creepy and where is this digimon that we're suppose to meet, I really want to go home and just soak my feet!" She complained.

"Talk about messed up first impressions." Roshi whispered under his breath. I think I get this girl gets her nice on then shows her real self in the future. In reality she's just some snooty, powder puff princess. Roshi rolled his eyes and continued their way. They came to a cave that was lit up by jewels on the walls and they glowed a faint greenish blue light.

"I'm guessing we're going the right way." Cindermon pointed and smiled.

"I can't wait to meet Roshi's partner!" Kiyo said and walked over to Roshi's side. "You're excited too aren't you?" The boy asked, Roshi really didn't know what to think since he wasn't sure if he wanted a friend. In fact, he wasn't sure if these people behind him were his friends, he figured that they would leave him or just want something from him. They're probably in it just to get their hands on his partner then push him aside.

"Roshi you alright?" Dai put his arm around his old friend. Roshi just pushed him off. "Fine." he said and they continued down the cave. They came to a small room with a picture on a wall of a wolf like creature that looked like he was made of metal. The kids all looked around for a moment and they didn't really know why there wasn't a digimon around but they told Hiroshi to go over and touch the wall. He did as he was told and touched the wall and when the room started to shake and quiver none of them budged an inch. The wall suddenly opened and when they looked in, there was no one there.

"What's going on?" Kintaro and Kiyo looking into the hidden room.

"Where's the digimon?" Clairmon looked stunned, that never happened before. "He's with me for safe keeping." A large blue bear with orange shoulder pads and glove like paws came from the entrance, "and by the way you opened that hidden room, I believe your Hiroshi Kichida." Said the large digimon.

"Yah so who are you buddy?" Cindermon asked him. "Grizzlymon, a champion digimon and your friend's guardian." He said.

"Well where is the little guy?" Daiki looked around.

"He's right here." Another voice said and out from behind the bear digimon, popped out a small blue digimon with some yellow spikes on his head and a yellow stripe going down his back and tail. His tail has a spade like shape at the end of it.

"Hi," the digimon said rather shyly. He stepped out and walked over towards Roshi. "I'm Glacimon." He said then Cindermon and Clairmon came over and greeted their new friend.

"Great to meet you." Dai said and patted the lizard digimon on the back.

"So you're my digimon?" Roshi seemed a bit stunned. "Yup, and I'll be here forever." He smiled at his partner. Roshi was suddenly touched by his friend and felt a warm feeling that he hasn't felt since his parents' divorce. His father had walked out on him and his mother and had gotten remarried, he now had a step brother and sister who were both older than him but he didn't make contact with them or his father's new wife. He pretty much kept a big distance from his father and was very angry with him. His dad tried to talk to him once and tried to sort things out but he just ended up with the big zero. His dad and his mom were somewhat good friends now and nothing more and so were she and his wife but Roshi still didn't say anything, saying nothing but feeling like he was betrayed.

"So are we getting out of here or what?" the little ice digimon said very openly now.

"Sure why not?" Yoko said. "I wanted to get out of here since we entered that crack in the ground!" She said with a hint of whining in her voice.

"Then let's get out of here." Dai said and they followed him towards Grizzlymon until there was a sudden chuckle. "Who's there?" Dai looked around.

"Evil." Cindermon said and turned towards the inner cave.

"What do you mean by evil?" Rumi followed his gaze.

"There are evil digimon that we should be aware of." Clairmon told her.

"Those small fries are right, you should be careful with who you play with." A samurai like digimon came out.

"So he's a digimon right?" Kintaro asked.

"Yup every creature in the digital world is a digimon whether they look human or not, besides you humans of course." Grizzlymon explained. "And that digimon is Musyamon, a virus ultimate digimon. His special attacks are Shogun Sword and Ninja Blade."

"The big lug is right, and I'm your worst nightmare." He said and ran towards the kids. "You will die!" He was going to slash the kids when Cindermon and his friends went into battle.

"Wait, Clairmon, what are you guys doing?" Rumiko called after her partner.

"Fighting." She said and jumped after Cindermon and Glacimon.

Here's the next chapter

Hope you guys like it and hope you guys didn't mind the wait

Review please and we'll see what Grizzlymon has to say next time

And don't worry, I'm working on frontier

Like I said before, It's coming

Momentai!