Digimon Frontier: Taming the Darkness

Chapter 7: Wind vs. Wind. The Dual Between Lunar and Peacockmon!

Me: I'm working my socks off for you guys! Keep that in mind!

Lunar: I think you mean you're working holes in your socks. Most of them are like that.

Me: No!

Lunar: Yes!

Petitmamon: You're both stupid! Start the chapter!

Me: I resent that! And I don't own Digimon! Oh yeah, and I made a really bad error in the last chapter, and I would like to clarify that I accidentally made it sound like only the Digimon partners and Shadow could say 'Virus Gatomon', but I actually meant to put only normal Digimon could say it. Sorry! I think I fixed it though.

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Lunar leaped into the air and spun around a few times, landing on the ground as a Renamon once again. She then glanced over to her Tamer, who had just finished getting dressed, and giggled.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing. I was just laughing at you for no apparent reason."

"Umm… Okay?"

The silver Renamon broke out in laughter and leaned up against the wall. Soon after doing so, she slid back into the shadows and disappeared completely. She returned a minute later holding a deck of cards and a few coins.

Zoe stared at her in confusion until Lunar walked up to her on the balls of her feet and handed her both items. "Here are some cards for the fight," she laughed in her small gap before continuing, "And here's you're change."

"You spent my money?"

"Yeah. Saving the world isn't cheap."

And with that note made, they were off.

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After a few moments of walking around aimlessly, they finally reached a point where Zoe's D-Arc could pick up the Digimon traces Lunar could hear. Luckily, they head been heading in the right direction, so their opponent wasn't that far away.

There wasn't much traffic either, considering it was about 3 in the morning. The duo ran full tilt toward the direction the constantly moving arrow was pointing.

Just about the time they had decided they were running in circles, it finally decided on a specific spot. Unfortunately, the place just so happened to be inside of an electric fan factory. How ironic.

Fog had begun to roll in around the area, making it a dead giveaway that a Digital Field had settled and a Digimon was there somewhere. The fog itself wasn't so bad; it was the constant groaning and creaking echoing through the stagnant air that made it a little bit creepy.

Lunar paused in front of the large gate with a huge sign reading "Do not enter. Violators will be prosecuted" and "Danger: High Voltage". She rolled her eyes and began striking it repeatedly until it fell to the ground in a bent up heap.

"Why would you do that!" Zoe shouted at her partner, who just shrugged in response.

"It was in the way," She replied while picking her way around the mauled fence.

"You could have just broken the lock," the blonde pointed out while following her silver partner.

"True. But then we'd look like noobs."

"Noobs?"

"Yeah. Losers."

The pair continued on in silence, all the while keeping on the lookout for the loose Digimon. After about 20 minutes, they decided on looking inside of the factory itself. They were starting to run out of time before the workers would show up and find that the place had been broken into.

Lunar spotted one of the doors that led to the inside of the large building and ran up to it. She tested the knob, only to find it was locked. After looking the building over, she chose their next course of action.

"Lunar, before you do anything-"

"Relax, I'm not gonna bust the lock," the Fox Monster interrupted while placing her arms around Zoe.

"First of all, it's break," her dubbed mother grumbled, "Second, what are you doing?"

"Just watch," the humanoid fox smirked while she slowly dissolved into the shadows, taking her Tamer with her.

They reemerged inside of the factory, where the thick fog was even worse than it was outside. The creaking continued, only this time it was followed by heavy footsteps. Or maybe it was stomping…?

The noises suddenly stopped, and were replaced by a loud screech. After that, it went back to deafening silence.

Lunar's ears twitched and she turned around to face Zoe. The girl stared at her for a moment, until the fox's eyes widened and she leaped toward her.

"Get down!" she shouted while readying one of her Diamond Storm attacks. Zoe did as she was told and ducked.

A huge humanoid bird covered in blue armor dove right at Lunar. Its feathers were green lasers, and its tail was solid metal. A row of spikes shot through the armor around its neck.

Lunar spread her limbs out, releasing the thousands of sharpened leaves at the bird. They bounced off uselessly, but temporarily blinded the bird long enough for Zoe to bring up its information on her D-Arc.

"Alright! The D-Arc says that that Digimon is called Peacockmon." The metallic bird's image floated blurrily above the device. "It's an Armor Level of the, uh, Free/Data Attribute. Guess they couldn't make up their mind, huh?"

"Keep reading!" Lunar yelled while dodging one of Peacockmon's laser wings that attempted to slice her head off.

"Right!" Zoe shouted in response, only to receive a glare. "I mean, it's a Machine type, and it Digivolved from a Hawkmon with the Digi-Egg of Miracles. It can also fly 100 meters high, and the main feathers that it uses for flight are lasers."

"What are the attacks?" the fox screamed while grabbing hold of the bird's wings. It screeched in response and threw her back into the railing of the catwalk they were fighting on.

"Oh yeah. The attacks are Rainbow Flapping-"

"Rainbow Flapping!" Peacockmon squawked while flying into the air and repeatedly flapping its wings. The force of the attack was enough to stun Lunar, but the added energy blasts nearly knocked her off the platform.

"Okay! What's the other one!"

"And the other one is Peahen's Assistance."

Lunar flipped back onto the platform, which she had managed to stay on by gripping the railing, and let out a low growl. Peacockmon took this as a taunt and growled back. The two glared at each other for a while before they began fighting once more.

Peacockmon struck first. It made an incredibly fast charge at Lunar and began hitting her with its large wings while the lasers were switched off. Lunar retaliated its attack by grabbing one of the wings and throwing the beast into one of the conveyor belts.

The huge metal bird screeched and shot into the air. Lunar let out a frustrated growl and began chasing it by leaping from machine to machine. Unfortunately, careful jumping required a lot of focus, so she had trouble keeping up with it.

Peacockmon took full advantage of this and managed to come up behind Lunar in a matter of minutes. It then paused and crossed its wings, suspended by some unknown force, and shrieked, "Peahen's Assistance!"

When the Machine type uncrossed its arms, the result was a large beam in the shape of an X that transformed into a tooth-filled beak. The beak, wide open, snapped shut on the fox and enveloped her in blue energy that ripped at her Data. The attack self-destructed and launched Lunar into the wall closest to Zoe.

Lunar struggled back up to her feet and glared at the Digimon flying towards her. Zoe ran over to her partner and grabbed hold of her arm. The humanoid fox looked over to her Tamer in response and sighed.

"Why don't we get the guys to help?" Zoe smiled weakly to Lunar, who growled and ripped her arm out of the blonde's grip.

"We don't need their help! Just swipe a card, I'll make it!" She rasped while getting into a fighting stance.

"A-alrighty then," her Tamer smiled while holding her D-Arc in front of her. She then rummaged through the cards Lunar had bought for her and smirked when she found the perfect one for their current situation.

Cue: SLASH! from Digimon Tamers

"Card Slash!" she yelled while ripping the card through the slide, "White Wings!"

"STOP POPPING UP YOU STUPID VOICE!" Lunar screamed as six glowing white wings grew out of her back.

Make me.

She then followed her outburst by flapping the new wings and floating into the air. Peacockmon let out a squawk of surprise as Lunar rocketed toward it and slugged it in the face. The mechanical bird lost its balance and crashed to the ground, hitting a large machine that exploded in the process.

Lunar then crossed her arms and pulled in her legs again, getting ready for her signature attack. Her arms uncrossed and her legs spread out, and the thousands of glowing leaves hurtled down towards the bird, who was just starting to get back up.

Unlike last time, the leaves had a maximum influence on Peacockmon, and all the leaves did exactly what they were supposed to do; stick into the front of the creature so that they were protruding from its chest. (Please tell me that makes sense.)

The robotic monster groaned and fell back to the ground with the leaves about to explode. Lunar landed on the ground next to her Tamer just about the time the wings disintegrated and watched as her opponent exploded from the amount of pressure being applied to one spot.

She followed this movement by closing her eyes and stretching her limbs out. The Digimon's Data began to collect into her body and give her a slight reddish glow. When there was no Data left, she landed on the ground and smirked.

Zoe, still a bit upset about the way Digimon operated now, gave her partner a weak smile. The Digimon returned her gesture with a thumbs up.

Lunar than jumped as she looked up at one of the holes in the wall. There was quite a bit of sunlight bursting in from it and cascading down on the rubble. She gulped and turned around to face her Tamer.

"We better skedaddle. The sun's come up."

"Skedaddle? Really Lunar?"

"It's so much better than run. You know what the author's writing teacher says, use your vivid verbs!"

Using a reference from my life in the middle of a story could be considered a crime, you know.

"Yeah well you know what? I'm freaking Lunar! I'm just that epic!"

I see… Well in that case…

"Kidding! Kidding!"

"Okay, Lunar. Stop arguing with the author and let's go," Zoe sighed as she began dragging Lunar away from the fight scene, "I'd prefer if we could get out before the cops arrive."

"I don't know… I've always wanted to be Tased…"

"Lunar you didn't even know what a Taser was until three days ago. That and it's Tasered."

"No, it's Tased."

"Lunar, I'm pretty sure it's Tasered."

"Tased."

"Tasered."

"Tased!"

"Tasered!"

"TASED!"

"TASERED!"

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Due to the fact that they argue about the correct word usage for about half an hour, we're going to go focus on some other sort of person. Thank you for your time.

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Shadow smiled as he walked into his lab for the first time that day. Neo had done an excellent job for his first operation, and the young humanoid was looking to be on the road to an excellent recovery.

He chuckled to himself and closed the door behind him. The wolf turned around and the smile escaped his lips. He flicked the light switch on and ran into the middle of his lab. The entire place was a wreck.

His data detecting machine was crushed and lying on the ground with its nuts and bolts scattered around. His different medicines stored in glass bottles were now on the floor in puddles. And worst of all, he saw Neko nowhere.

In his panic, he came to the first assumption. Someone had broken into the lab. Yeah. That was it! O-Or maybe one of Virus Gatomon's soldiers came after hearing Takuya blab her name carelessly. Whatever had happened, his lab was a complete mess.

"Neko? Neko!" he shouted while running through the different rooms.

He then came upon a room with every single light producing object on possible. It made him have to squint and cover his eyes.

He then noticed the girl curled up in a ball in the corner. She was sobbing at the moment; her hands had clenched her head to the point of drawing blood. Her breath was uneven and uncontrolled, not to mention raspy.

He reached for the brightest light and turned it off. Neko, A.K.A the girl in the corner, jumped towards him and managed to land directly on top of him. Her claws sunk into his skin and she ripped upwards.

Shadow let out a grunt of pain and grabbed the struggling girl on his head. He then yanked her off with ease and tossed her onto the ground. She hissed and turned to face him.

"What's gotten into you girl?" he barked while dodging one of her attacks.

"You are one of bad Digimon!" she growled and swiped at him again. Neko managed to snag the wolf's jeans and yanked him down to the floor.

"You leave Neko alone in dark!" she added nervously, "And then add more dark!"

"What?" he growled and grabbed ahold of her shirt, dangling her by her hood.

"Shadow… Shadow want big, scary Digimon to come get Neko! He keep Neko locked in dark where really big kitty is! S-she want Neko dead!"

"It's okay, girl. Tons of Digimon are scared of Virus Gatomon," Shadow chuckled while setting her down.

"No; Virus Gatomon taking orders. Neko is talking about head Digimon!"

"The head Digimon is UltimateKhaosmon. Last time I checked, UltimateKhaosmon wasn't a big kitty."

"UltimateKhaosmon only puppet! He puppet, kitty puppeteer!"

"You kids and your imagination these day!" Shadow smiled while patting Neko on the head. She glared at him for a moment, then laid her head down on her hands.

"C-can Neko leave soon?" she whimpered while looking to the side.

"Not until those stitches heal up," the ShadowwereGarurumon sighed as he trotted out of the room to begin cleaning up his work area.

"Neko's stitches are healed up!" she protested while following him out.

"Oh really?" the werewolf grumbled while kneeling over.

"Yeah, see?" Neko smiled while lifting her shirt up so Shadow could see her stomach. She was right, the wound was healed up.

"How-? Why-?" Shadow was at a loss for words as he stared at the perfectly healed cut. There wasn't even a scar!

"Neko always heals fast," she stated simply while pulling her shirt back down.

"Over two days fast?"

"No. Neko always heals overnight."

The doctor stared at the girl who had started messing around with a stray cotton ball. She whacked it into the air and began swatting it around like a cat.

Shadow chuckled and once again, began to mop up all of the chemicals Neko had spilled in her fear trance.

"You know, Neko," he began, "You could have just told me you were scared of the dark."

"Neko isn't scared of the dark," she whimpered while the cotton ball drifted to the ground, "Neko is scared of what is in the dark."

"Okay?" Shadow grumbled in confusion. He picked up the unbroken needles and syringes and set them back in their cases. Well, the cases not shattered, that is.

"Can Shadow call Shinyou and ask him to pick Neko up?" Neko smiled while her tail whipped back and forth.

"Right after you tell me why you talk in third person." The werewolf picked up the corded phone and waved it for emphasis.

"Neko doesn't know what Shadow is talking about."

"See? You are doing it again!"

"Neko isn't doing anything…"

Shadow groaned and began dialing the phone. It rang and rang and rang…

"Hello?"

"Hello, kid."

"Shadow, it's… 10 in the morning… okay, never mind…"

"Look, I was just calling to tell you about the girl. But, if you don't want to hear it, I suppose I could-"

"H-hey! Let's not get too hasty here!"

"Oh I'm just messing with you, son! I was calling to tell you that she was alright to come home now."

"Hah! You really had me going for a minute! I actually thought you were serious!"

"Son, I am dead serious."

"… What?"

"Do you need some proof? Here, I have an idea."

Shadow looked over at the girl, who had begun playing with the cotton balls again, and sighed. Covering up the receiver, he motioned for her to come over. He handed her the phone and smirked.

Neko stared at the device the wolf had handed her and dropped it on the ground. It bounced a few times. She giggled at this and picked it up and stretched the cord out. Releasing it, she watched it snap backwards and hit the wall. She broke out in laughter and crawled over to the phone.

"Shadow, what's going on?"

"Neko! That is not what we do with a phone!" Shadow barked while snatching the said item from the humanoid.

"What phone?" she asked absentmindedly.

"This phone!" he growled while pointing at it.

"No, no! Umm… What is?... Yeah! What is phone?" Neko smiled while cocking her head.

"This is a phone. You talk in this end-" he pointed to the receiver, "-and your voice comes out on the other end."

"Really!?" Neko gasped while snatching the phone back. "HELLO! HELLO!"

"Ow! Who the heck is bursting my eardrums!"

"Neko is! Neko is, Shinyou!" the young cat-girl giggled while jumping up and down.

"Shin-what?"

"Shinyou! Shinyou! Shinyou! Shinyou! Shinyo-"

"Okay, and I'm taking the phone back," Shadow growled while doing said action.

"What the heck just happened! Who was that?"

"That was Neko. I told you she was feeling better."

"Couldn't you have just explained it to me instead of giving the phone to Miss Screams-a-lot?"

"I apologize for that. I didn't think that she would scream like that. Apparently she has never seen a phone before."

"Well, I'm glad you called. Where does she live so I can visit her later?"

"Well, that's the thing. Neo and I have no information on her family. I asked for her last name, and she told me it was Neko, and that all it had ever been was Neko."

"Okay… So does that mean she doesn't have a home address?"

"No. And it also means that you have to watch her until her 'condition' wears off. A.K.A, she needs a legal guardian to watch her by law, so I told the hospital your family volunteered."

"WHAT! AND YOU DIDN"T RUN IT BY ME!?"

"You're mother already agreed to it."

"But that... That means that I have to watch her!"

"Tch. Not my problem."

"What happened to being a caring, old man?"

"Hey! I told you I was old. I never said anything about being caring." With that, Shadow broke out in rather extreme laughter, ignoring the boy on the other end of the phone. Shinya grumbled a bit and hung up in response.

"Neko thinks that you need to get a life, and that you need to stop torturing little boys for fun."

"Yeah? Well Shadow thinks that Neko is quite annoying."

"Neko wants to know who talks like that."

Shadow could only grin as an answer.

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Okay, I apologize for not getting this up as soon as possible. I, uh, had a slight anger towards my sister, so I ended up accidentally disrespecting my mom. Trust me, I had no intention to do so.

So anyway, I am banned from using my mom's laptop until Sunday, I think. So basically I can't start on the next chapter until either tomorrow, since I'm staying at my Grandma's house, or Sunday. Again, really sorry, but I got half of this done in about three hours in one day. Basically, I could probably actually make the several chapters I need for the Christmas special.

Just as a sneak peek, there will be snowball fights, mistletoe, and Dracomon being knocked out by Petitmamon's Petit Nightmare attack. Also, there will be Koji's angry girlfriend attacking him.

So anyways, remember to read and review.

Pandamoniam