Bonnie: Sorry about the long wait. I had school but thank you to all my reviewers! You've made me so happy! (most of you) In this chapter, Kouji and Takuya are going to meet the others. Tomoki will look up to Takuya like an older sister since she reminds him of a female version of her brother. It's hard writing Takuya as a girl so I hope I didn't make her too OOC! I know they are meeting the others really early but if I keep them seperate, Takuya and Kouji are bound toget together really, REALLY soon and I can't have that yet! (The friendship stage is still growing...)

Takuya: You're giving away too much!

Bonnie: My bad. Sorry.

Takato: So who's doing the summary of the end?

Bonnie: Lee is.

Takuya: Kouji is going to be anti-social again!

Bonnie: I know. Bummer.

Takato: Speaking of which, where is Kouji?

Takuya: I'll go find him.

Bonnie: See ya then Takuya! Tell him to order some pizza for us, I'm starving!Now on with the next chapter! Forgive me if I get the timelines wrong because Izumi, Tomoki and Junpei are following the original on how they got their spirits so I'm making them have their spirits already when they meet.(I feel lazy about doing their spirits, the anime did a better job)

Disclaimer: Short and blunt, Kouji style! Don't own Digimon.

Pairings: Definitely Takouji/Koukuya, Shimoki, Junpei/Kouichi/Izumi triangle. I've also hidden a certain triangle somewhere in the chapters. Try and guess! You won't be able to.

To Pink Kabuterimon: Wow! You're review was so funny that I nearly fell off my chair. No seriously, raping canon? I see you don't read my story and yet you flame it. Ahh well, fire was my element... really, Takuya and Kouji aren't even together yet and the name... there's a certain story on that. If you didn't really read the story and yet you flame it, you are a closed minded fool and a lot of other things that I don't think would be very necesary to say. If it makes you happier about the age thing, I can bump Tomoki's up by one and the others down by one so they are exactlytwo years a part. Happy now? It doesn't ruin anything for me but I think it made it easier for me to write what they say and do since I haven't really reached Takuya and Kouji's ages (previously 14) yet... I'm still thirteen! So I think it's easier to make Takuya, Kouji, Kouichi and Izumi's ages all thirteen. Junpei's personality isn't that hard...

Chapter 4: 10 Warriors

The brown haired girl came to a stop when she realized something was different. Kouji came to a stop as well but he was deep in thought once again. Should I tell Takuya? What if she rejects me, I can't have that! No, I'm not going to tell her yet. Kouji turned to find Takuya panicking. "Oh no! I left the first aid kit back at the cave!" She exclaimed as she looked at her empty hands. Takuya turned around and started running back. "Wait! Takuya!" Kouji called and followed. When the two friends left the clearing they were in, a girl and two boys (also two digimon) came into the clearing. "That's funny." The girl,who was dressed in a light purple jacket, said. "I thought I heard someone."

Takuya found the rock filled entrance. "Damn it!" She cursed and started moving some of the rocks. Kouji came into view, "what are you doing Takuya?" He asked, leaning against the mountain and watching her move the heavy rocks.

"I need to get the first-aid kit! We'll definitely need it." Takuya replied. Kouji pushed himself off the mountain and walked over to Takuya. "You'd better think of something else then, the rocks are going to cave in." He was right. The more rocks Takuya moved, the more rocks fell to take its place. Takuya stopped and wiped sweat off her forehead. "Then what do you think we should do?"

Kouji looked around and found several sturdy sticks. He brought them over and told Takuya to keep moving some of the rocks. When there was a small hole revealed, Takuya looked up and gave a shout to Kouji. "Look out! The rocks!" The rocks were falling again but Kouji took action. He grabbed the sticks and propped it against the rocks to stop it from falling. The rocks stopped in place but were shaking. "Hurry Takuya!" Kouji yelled. Takuya nodded quickly and crawled in. It was dark and Takuya couldn't see anything. Hurry! Kouji's waiting for me…Takuya thought. At that moment, there was a flash of light and Takuya could see the first-aid kit. Without a second thought, she grabbed it and made her way back. For a split second, she thought she could see a silhouette in the light. Kouji?

Meanwhile outside, Kouji was praying that Takuya would be all right. It seemed that fate was threatening Kouji to tell the brown haired girl or he would lose her but when Kouji seemed to lose hope, a familiar goggled girl emerged from the hole just in time. The crevice collapsed. "Takuya!" Kouji sighed in relief.

Takuya stood up, brushing dust off her pants. Should I ask Kouji if he was in the cave? Nah, that's crazy how would Kouji be in the cave?

Kouji sighed again. "Let's go." Takuya blinked.

"Go where? We already have our spirits."

"I don't know. A trailmon that can take us home?"

Takuya nodded at the suggestion, "okay."

At that moment, both D-tectors started to flash and the female voice from earlier sounded out. "You need to get to the Forest Terminal. From there is where you will learn more about your destiny. If you wish to turn back, now's your chance."

And with that, the voice faded. Takuya looked a bit lost and Kouji pondered on whether to continue or not. At last Takuya said, "we've come this far Kouji, should we really leave?" Kouji was thinking along the same lines. After all, he still wanted to stay with Takuya a little bit longer. GAH! What am I thinking?

"You're right." Kouji said as he was mentally slapping himself. "We've come this far, I suppose we should continue."

Takuya nodded. "Where to?"

Suddenly a scream came from the forest. Kouji and Takuya looked at one another and bolted for the forest. They came upon a clearing of some black, disgusting-looking digimon. Takuya gave a yelp when she saw the disgusting bug-like creatures and clung onto Kouji. Kouji blushed like crazy but also sweat dropped. Takuya acted so much like a boy at times; this was one of those few times she acted like a girl.

Realizing what she was doing, Takuya stepped back blushing and Kouji was blushing as well but they both shook it off and went back to the bug problem. Kouji took out his D-tector.

"Roachmon. Cockroach digimon. (A/N: EWWW!) Champion level. Their attacks are Flying attack and Dream Dust. Roachmon live in swarms of up to 100 at a time."

Takuya's eyes bulged. "100?"

Kouji sighed again for what seemed like the millionth time today. "I don't see anyone who could've made that scream but we better exterminate these pests."

Takuya rolled her eyes, "nicely said Kouji."

Kouji ignored that comment and took out his D-tector. "Execute! Spirit Evolution, Wolfmon!"

Takuya did the same and the two companions rush forward.

"Pyro Tornado!"

"Licht Sieger!"

The attacks hit about half of the Roachmon and theypiled up.Takuya blinked, "hey why isn't there any fractural codes?" Kouji shrugged but kept battling the Roachmon off. Five more Roachmon disappeard and digieggs flew up. "Great, they'll be back again." Takuya muttered, pointing to the digieggs.

"That's it you disgusting creatures!" A female voice cried out. "Hurricane Gale!"

Wind rushed from all directions and Roachmons were blown back in every direction. Agunamon and Wolfmon shielded themselves from the wind. All of a sudden, a fairy-like digimon flew in from the sky. Ice formed on some Roachmon and a white bear riding on a pair of skies came in. Thunder came in from the sky, shocking the rest of the Roachmon and they all disappeared, leaving a fractural code behind. A blue beetle digimon appeared.

"You disgusting creatures! You will be here no longer!" The Fairy digimon announced and pulled out (to Kouji and Takuya's amazement) a purple D-Tector. She scanned the code of the Roachmon and then she noticed Agunamon and Wolfmon. "What! Are you with those disgusting Roachmon?" She demanded and Agunamon stepped foreward, her blue eyes blazing. "Excuse me? I am not with those disgusting Roachmon." She hissed.

A white digimon, accompanied by a taller yellow digimon with red pants came into the clearing. "Please calm yourself Izumi-san!" The white digimon said. "According to my book, these two are the legendary warriors of fire and light!"

"Izumi-san, you've been very edgy since that Roachmon flew into your hair." The beetle digimon said. The fairy now identified as Izumi-san changed into a girl with blond hair and wearing a purple outfit. The other two also changed into normal human beings: a small boy and a large heavyset boy.

The girl named Izumi-san tossed her hair back and questioned the white digimon, who had a book out and was flipping through it. "So who are they?"

Meanwhile, Takuya and Kouji had returned to normal. Kouji gave a glare to the heavyset boy who was eyeing Takuya. This went unnoticed by the brunette but did not go unnoticed by Izumi who raised an eyebrow at that.

"So who are you?" The blond girl asked. Kouji wasn't in the mood to talk but Takuya didn't look like she was going to talk anytime soon. She was still unhappy that Izumi accused her of being with the Roachmon. So Kouji sighed and introduced himself, "I'm Minamoto Kouji and that is Takuya." He said bluntly. After being introduced, Takuya calmed down a bit and said her full name "I'm Kanbara Takuya." Then she asked the smallest boy what his name was.

"I'm Himi Tomoki." The younger boy said. The older boy introduced himself as well. "I am Shibayama Junpei."

Both Junpei and Tomoki turned to Izumi expectantly. She sighed and introduced herself as well. "You already know my name, it's Orimoto Izumi."

The two digimon came foreward to introduce themselves, the small whit one went first. "I'm Bokomon, keeper of the book." He bowed. The taller one said. "I'm Neemon. Keeper of my pants." The one named Bokomon reached out and took hold of Neemon's red pants and pulled it out. Then he snapped it back in, then he sighed in annoyance. Takuya and Kouji sweat dropped at their antics.

Bokomon cleared his throat. "Now that we know your names, I can tell you your spirits." He pointed to Takuya. "You have the spirit of fire." He then pointed to Kouji. "You Kouji, have the spirit of light." Takuya rolled her eyes since she knew this and Kouji just stared ahead. "Yeah, yeah we know that already!" Takuya said impatiently. "Get to the point."

Bokomon huffed but continued on anyways. "What I was saying before is that now we have found two new legendary warriors so we can all go together. The Digital World is in danger!"

By now, Bokomon had Kouji's attention as well.

"Legendary Warriors? The Digital World?" Takuya said in confusion and this time Tomoki piped up. "Yeah! This place is called the Digital World and the spirits we have are legendary warriors!" Tomoki was critically studying Takuya and found that she was just like his older brother. Only she was female. Strange how that works out for Tomoki but he was alreadystarting to look up to her. (A/N: Kouji: What? That quick? Bonnie: I'm too lazy to elaborate on that.)

"So Agunamon and Wolfmon are Legendary Warriors?" Takuya asked.

Bokomon nodded and he murmured something. "Strange how the warrior of fire was Ancientgreymon, who was a male and the currentreincarnation is a female." But no one heard him say that.

"Long ago, the Digital world was in peril and needed the help of the ten legendary warriors." Bokomon said out loud. "The ten warriors all have the power over elements and they became a legend when they defeated the evil Lucemon of the Digital World. My book says that the legendary warriors' spirits are being called again to the rightful ones byOphanimonbut right now, you only have half of each warrior's power."

"Only half?" Izumi cried out.

"After all our troubles of getting them?" Takuya cried out as well.

Bokomon flipped through his thick green book. "It doesn't say what the other half of the warrior's spirit looks like." Neemon rubbed a page of the book and Bokomon slapped his hand away. "What are you doing?"

"There's something here…" Neemon said, poking at the page and Bokomon lifted it. To the digimon's surprise, it unfolded into 3 more pages. "Hey! This talks about Beast Spirits."

"Beast Spirits?" Everyone, minus Kouji, asked at once even thoughKouji was curious too.

Bokomon was silent for a few more minutes. "Beast spirits are the second half of your spirits. Right now you've all got the human spirits: Fairymon, Chakmon, Blitzmon, Wolfmon and Agunamon. Am I correct?" Everyone nodded.

"So we need to find our beast spirits?" Junpei asked. He got a crush on Izumi and now Takuya comes along. He had noticed Kouji glaring at him so he backed off. I guess he already has a crush on her. That left Izumi free for Junpei though and he couldn't be any happier since the only other capable boy is after Takuya. (A/N: Ahhh... couldn't resist)

"Yes." Bokomon replied. Kouji turned away and walked into the forest. "Kouji?" Takuya called, running after the blue haired boy.

Tomoki was going to follow but Izumi stopped him. "If there's anyone who can solve Kouji's problem, it's Takuya." She said and Tomoki stopped, realizing the meaning of Izumi's words. Takuya and Kouji only had each other so they already know each other well enough. Takuya is probably only one who can help Kouji.

"Kouji! Geez, where are you going?" Takuya called out as she started jogging to catch up. "Kouji, why are you running away?"

"I'm not running away!"

"Then how come you left the others?"

"I-I needed some time to think."

"About what?"

"…"

"Kouji!"

"I guess I…"

Takuya realized that Kouji was at a loss for words to describe what he was thinking so she stopped bantering him.

Time continued as Takuya waited patiently for Kouji to say something. Kouji looked down at his shoes and then said quietly, "I'm not used to having people around me."

Takuya stared at Kouji and then she walked up and (despite the fact that Kouji is taller) she put a hand on his shoulder comforting him. Kouji looked at her and Takuya smiled. "If you really don't feel comfortable, it's okay. I'll help you."

Kouji looked back down. "Moving around, I never had much of a chance to talk to people so I never knew how to act. Everyone I know leaves me."

Takuya really didn't know how to respond but she stood there comforting Kouji and trying to show him that she will be there for him.

"I'll be here for you Kouji, that I can promise." She said softly and Kouji looked at her questioningly. Takuya sighed.

"I used to get into fights with my friends when they ask me on the matter of guys. Even though, I never leave anyone behind even if I have to fight for it. After meeting you Kouji, my perspective on it changed. You're my friend now. I won't leave you behind no matter how hard I have to go to do it."

Kouji's mind was in turmoil. Could he accept Takuya as a friend? He always did everything by himself and thought he didn't need any friends but now Takuya was changing his perspective as well. Maybe this one time, he could accept Takuya as a friend?

"Takuya?" Kouji called to the brunette. "Do we have to stay with the others?"

Strangely enough, Takuya was eyeing a bush critically but answered Kouji's question. "We don't have to but they could get into trouble so maybe we should go with them."

"Fine, but I'm not going to talk to them."

"Leave that to me."

Suddenly, the bush Takuya had been watching suspiciously rustled and Takuya narrowed her eyes. Kouji noticed this as well and got into a defense position.

The bush rustled again as Kouji took a stick and jumped in between Takuya and the bush. A moment later, a group of small gray creatures burst out of the bush and in the direction of Kouji and Takuya. Kouji tightened his grip on the stick and Takuya checked the digimon out.

"Scarmon, in-training digimon, greedy and malicious. Their attacks are scar bubbles and bubble blow."

The scarmon were dark gray with two horns sprouting on top and a red scar seared through one eye. They were screaming "Choclate!" (A/N: Everyone sweatdrops...)Kouji leaped forward.

"Kouji!"

Before Takuya could stop Kouji, he had leaped forward with his stick. (A/N: I LOVE EPISODE 02 WHERE KOUJI BATTLED THOSE UMMM… GIZAMON-LIKE THINGS WITH A SINGLE STICK. IT WAS AWESOME!)

Kouji seemed to have everything under control as Takuya watched, amazed, by how strong Kouji was.

When the Child of Light was done, the scarmon had run away in fear. Takuya ran foreward. "Wow, Kouji! Where'd you learn how to do that?"

"Kendo class." Said Kouji simply.

The victory was short-lived when a scream that sounded like Fairymon erupted fromthedistant forest nearby.

"Uh-oh." Takuya muttered and Kouji cursed silently. The Children of Light and Fire started running to the sounds of a distant battle.

While from a field of tall grass, a pair of yellow eyes watch them run.

TBC…

Jenrya: Takuya and Kouji have met the others and are both changing each other. Problems are springing up now and what is with the yellow eyes?

Bonnie: Well, there you go, an extra long chapter to make up for the wait. This chapter is not that interesting and the next one won't be very original. But I assure you there's going to be some exciting and fun (not to mention dangerous) things going to happen. The next chapter as most of you can guess is when they meet Grottomon.

Takuya: NO! I hate him!

Bonnie: We all do.

Takato: …

Bonnie: Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been watching the entire series of season 04 so I have a better idea of it. It's in Chinese though. But KOUJI AND TAKUYA'S VOICES ARE AWESOME! Kouichi's wasn't that bad either.

Ruki: This is stupid.

Jenrya: Then leave if you don't like it.

Ruki: And leave you with Goggle-head? Never!

Takuya+Takato: Hey!

Bonnie: Heh, maybe I should bring in Izumi, Tomoki and Junpei here.

Kouji: And Onii-chan.

Bonnie: Right. And Kouichi.

Takuya: Jiikai! Digimon04: Beastly Grottomon.

Bonnie: Read and Review! I love you people!