Digimon Remastered

Disclaimer

I do not own any of the characters original to Digimon or Inazuma Eleven Go. I only own the OCs.

Chapter 7 Pressures of Responsibility

"I know this is no day at the beach Joe but that's no reason to be a worry wart about it and make all your friends unhappy. Pardon the pun but chill out." said Gomamon. "Only you have a problem with the cold. Right guys?" he asked. A few of the others, human and Digimon, were shivering and holding their arms together for warmth. "Everyone think warm." he said as they walked.

"I'm allergic to fur." complained Joe.

"Aw come on you guys. The cold isn't that cold." said Tai.

"Perhaps not if you're a polar bear or a penguin." said Izzy.

"Yeah but if it snows we can throw some snowballs." said Tai.

"And make snowmen." said Mimi.

"What do you think a snowmon is?" Gomamon asked Gabumon.

"A Digimon from their planet." replied Gabumon.

"It's difficult to explain." said Izzy.

"If it's edible count me in." said Tentomon.

"No the best thing about snowballs is that you can throw them at each other. It's a fun game that we play in the winter months." explained Izzy.

"You throw food?" asked Tentomon.

"We could even build a snowfort." said Matt.

"You'll need one." said Tai.

"I'll bet I could even beat you both blindfolded." said Sora. Joe looked concerned which went unnoticed by everyone except Miria and Shawn.

"I wanna build an igloo." said TK.

"I'll help if you tell me what it is." said Palmon.

"An igloo sounds scrumptous to me." said Tentomon.

"Too bad they're not edible." said Izzy.

"Come on. Get serious. It'd be horrible if it started snowing right now." said Joe.

"Lighten up Joe." said Sora as she walked up to him. "We're just trying to look on the positive side of things."

"Sometimes it's better to focus on a good could be than a bad will be." said Miria as she walked next to Sora.

"Hey Tai when's it gonna snow?" asked TK excited.

"Probably any second now." replied Tai.

"Right on Joe's head." added Matt.

"That'd be so funny." said TK.

"I can't wait to see his face." said Tai.

"You know if the temperature drops any more than it already has we won't be able to camp out any more. We'll be frozen digitreats." said Joe as most of the others started laughing.

"I wouldn't worry so much." said Shawn as he walked up to Joe. "Don't forget that I'm the Elemental of Fire so keeping us warm won't be any trouble."

"How long would you be able to stay like that?" asked Miria.

"With my stored solar energy around twelve hours." replied Shawn. "That is as long as I don't have to fight using my powers."

"What's that white stuff?" asked Gomamon as they moved to a white area.

"It's a blanket of snow!" replied Mimi excited as the others marveled at the snow. "There's bound to be a ski resort nearby."

"I don't think that's true." said Tenma as he sweatdropped.

"Oh man this is even worse than even I thought it was." said Joe panicing.

"I doubt that." said Shawn.

"What now guys?" asked Sora.

"I think we should keep going. We're not gonna get anywhere just sitting here." said Tai.

"If we walk around in our sneakers our toes will go numb." said Matt.

"It's impossible to continue." said Joe.

"So what are we supposed to do? Just stand here like a bunch of dorks?" asked Tai. "We either go across the field or climb that big mountain."

"Whoa there. Wait a sec." said Agumon sniffing the air. "I think there's a weird odor in the air." Biyomon then sniffed the air as did Shawn and Eve.

"I do believe he's right." said Biyomon.

"What could it be?" asked Gabumon.

"I don't know but it smells like..." began Tai as he sniffed.

"It's kinda familiar." said Shawn. Izzy turned and saw something.

"It's steam." said Biyomon.

"She's right but what's it coming from?" asked Matt.

"A big geyser!" said Joe excited stopping the frollicing Mimi, Palmon, TK, and Patamon.

"Ah! A hotspring!" said Mimi and TK excited.

"Yippee! Now I can take a bath!" called out Mimi happily.

"And we can get warm." added TK just as excited as the group ran towards the steam. They stopped when they saw the place with several pools that had insanely hot water.

"Uh oh. This water's way too hot." said Tai.

"We'd be cooked if we jumped in this." said Tentomon.

"Yes, boiled." corrected Izzy. No one noticed when Shawn slipped into one of the pools.

"Well there go my dreams of a nice warm bath." said Mimi disappointed.

"It looks so inviting." said Palmon.

"Well it would be inviting if you were a vegetable." said Matt.

"What's a little dirt compared to starving? We need to find something to eat and there's nothing in sight." said Joe.

"Oh yes there is." said TK.

"What are you talking about? There's nothing here but a bunch of rocks and boiling water." said Joe.

"Lookit." said TK pointing behind Joe. He turned and became surprised at what he saw.

"Tell me I'm not imagining this." he said. Tai looked and then smiled.

"Yeah! It's for real."

"Aw come on. That's ridiculous." said Joe. "What would a refrigerator be doing way out here?"

"You question a fridge out here after we've seen phone booths, a trolly, and vending machines?" asked Shawn as he got out of the water with no one noticing he was wet.

"Hey where there's a fridge there's grub." said Matt as they ran up to the fridge.

"We won't know until we open it." said Sora.

"I don't really think that's..." began Joe before being interupted.

"I want hot cocoa." said Mimi.

"What's that?" asked Palmon.

"I don't believe we have the luxury of nitpicking." said Miria.

"Come on already. Let's see what's in there." said Tai before he opened it. "Whoa. Eggs!"

"There must be a zillion of them." said Agumon.

"Yeah grub on! These'll keep us fed for a month." said Tai.

"Wait a minute!" said Joe. "You shouldn't even touch them. We don't know if they're fit for human consumption."

"Then I'll be the guinea pig. If I turn purple then you'll know they're not edible." said Tai with a weirdly wide smile.

"There's more to it than that. Even if they were edible they don't belong to us. That'd make us all thieves. You've gotta think about stuff like that Tai." said Joe.

"Unless you're into eating rocks we don't have too much choice." said Matt.

"I'm sure they'd say yes if they knew we were in trouble." said Sora.

"Exactly. We'd tell them it's an emergency situation." said Izzy.

"Rationalize away." said Tentomon. Joe then frowned a bit so Miria walked up to him and smiled. After most of the kids began preparing eggs in different ways.

"Sunny side up eggs are my specialty." said Sora as she cracked some eggs onto a rock that had a fire under it which Shawn had helped make. Some of the Digimon were making plates and bowls to place food on.

"They're done." said Patamon as he and TK pulled out a basket of eggs from the water.

"Can't wait." said TK.

"Hey come on man. How are those chopsticks coming?" asked Tai. Joe just kept whitling away at a small branch.

"Hurry. We're gonna eat." said Mimi.

"Sorry. This just makes me feel uncomfortable." said Joe not noticing Tai and Izzy were gone. "We'd be in big trouble if someone got sick. No doctors around. Why do I always have to be the one to think about these things?"

"Maybe because you seem to think the weight of the world is on your shoulders." said Miria as she went up to Joe.

"You have to realize that at this point it's scavenger rights." said Shawn as he walked up to Joe as well.

"What do you mean?" asked Joe.

"Sometimes there's just nothing you can do to stay alive but take what you can find." said Miria with a sad sigh.

"Joe you've probably never had to go this far just to survive but when you've got no other options sometimes you have to be willing to do some things you wouldn't normally do." said Shawn looking down. "I lost my parents around four years ago and for a few weeks I wandered around. No home. No food. I had to steal just to survive and even met a few kids who had the same hardship." he said looking towards Miria who looked away.

"So you did recognize me." said Miria with a slight smile.

"Kind hard not to when you're wearing the locket I got into a fight to get back for you." said Shawn.

"Hold on. I though Jesse was your brother." said Joe confused. Miria picked up a branch and started whitling some chopsticks.

"I'm adopted." she replied. "My own family was taken from me when I was younger and I found myself starving for days on end. I met a group of kids like myself who were also living on the streets. They took me in and taught me about how to survive."

"Some time later they found me although I don't have much memory about what happened before." said Shawn.

"So what happened?" asked Joe.

"We were forced to go our seperate ways when the majority of our group was captured and taken to some kind of orphanage." replied Miria. "But look, the point is right now we're only doing what we have to so we can live another day so try not to think so heavily on what we might be doing wrong." she said with a smile. Joe sighed.

"I'll try."

Some time later they had a full banquet of eggs prepared on baskets, rock bowls, and a few other things.

"Trés gourmet." said Mimi.

"It's your turn next time." Sora told Mimi.

"Go on. Dig in." said Biyomon

"Oh yeah. I haven't had a meal like this in a long time. My stomach's chimin'." said Tai as everyone served themselves and began to eat.

"If we had some ketchup to go with this it would be perfect." said Matt.

"Oh I love ketchup and eggs." said TK.

"That sounds pretty gross to me." said Sora.

"What's the matter Joe? You haven't eaten anything." said Gomamon.

"I was just thinking that if we were able to go back home ketchup wouldn't be a problem. Oh well." said Joe a bit sadly causing the majority of the others to look somewhat depressed.

"Oh. Now I'm homesick. How depressing." said Mimi.

"Now I wanna go home." said TK.

"Me too." said Tenma.

"It's been four days since we got here." said Izzy. "I wonder if anyone's tried to find out where we are."

"Cheer up." said Sora. "Why don't you tell me how you like your eggs and I'll try to do my very best."

"I prefer my egs to be covered in salt and pepper but I guess it doesn't matter." said Joe.

"I like soy sauce." said Tai.

"How about salsa." said Matt.

"How about a reality check?" asked Sora.

"I'll have mine with mustard and jelly beans please." said Izzy causing Tai to laugh uncomfortably.

"How gross." said Matt.

"Jelly beans. That sounds good." said TK.

"To each his own I suppose." said Shawn as he ate.

"What? You're both weird." said Mimi. "My favorite is eggs topped with maple syrup, yummy. Sometimes I like them with cherries on top." she said causing the others to look a bit nauseated.

"Does she really?" Shawn asked Tenma in a whisper. Tenma nodded with his head down.

"That's weird." said Sora.

"But I bet it's good." said TK as Tai and Matt laughed uncomfortably.

"I've had worse." said Miria with a light laugh as she turned to Jesse who glared at her.

"What?! You guys are making me completely lose my appetite. I just like plain eggs." said Joe. "I wish we'd talk about something other than egg recipes."

"Don't be so hard on yourself. They're just having fun." said Gomamon.

"Come on. Join the party." said Matt.

"I think it's really too late for him." said Tai. "I think Joe thinks we've gone a little crazy over these eggs."

"Well really, jelly beans and cherries on eggs is just crazy talk. All they really need is salt and pepper. Keep is simple. That's always been my motto." said Joe.

"I'm afraid Joe's just not the kind of guy who's meant to be adaptable." said Gomamon.

"What do you mean?" Joe demanded.

"Let's face it Joe. You're kind of a stick in the mud if you catch my drift." said Gomamon.

"I'm just practicle." said Gomamon.

"Here they go again." said Biyomon as they all watched Joe and Gomamon argue.

"Could be worse I suppose." said Evelyn with a light laugh.

"Wanna fight? Huh, huh, huh." asked Gomamon lifting his...clawed flippers?

"Yeah sure." replied Joe as he got up.

"Hey hey hey. You better calm down." said Matt as he got between them and grabbed Joe's arm.

"I am calm! He's the one who's started it." said Joe as he pulled his arm away from Matt. "Why'd you squeeze my arm?!"

"You don't seem to be yourself today Joe." said Matt concerned. "You're a basket case."

"I'm just trying to be careful. Unlike the rest of you weirdos." said Joe. "I'm telling you, you're just asking for trouble."

After eating Shawn and Evelyn sat together under a tree with their legs crossed and their eyes closed before being approached by Ayame, Izzy, Mimi, and Tenma.

"Yes?" asked Evelyn.

"We were wondering if you could teach us about our powers." said Izzy.

"What do you wanna know?" asked Shawn as he opened his eyes.

"How do we use them?" asked Ayame.

"Do you remember what you felt when you first transformed?" asked Eve as she opened her eyes. The four nodded. "Then we can start there."

"So how do you think it's going?" Tentomon asked.

"I don't know." replied Falcomon.

"I'm sure it'll be fine." said Palmon.

"This is kind of strange." said Dracomon.

"What is?" asked Draymon.

"Why is it that only Eve and Shawn knew about this but the others didn't?" asked Dracomon.

"I'm gonna ask." said Draymon as he flew to where the six kids sat together. Within the minutes Izzy, Ayame, Mimi, and Tenma had been sitting with them each the four of them had gained auras around them in the colors of their uniforms and had their eyes glowing in the same colors.

"Hey Shawn." said Draymon as he landed on Shawn's head.

"Draymon. What's up?" asked Shawn.

"We were wondering how you know that you were Elementals when the others didn't." said Draymon. At that Shawn and Eve looked at each other. "Did I say something wrong?"

"No." replied Shawn. "I'll explain in a minute." he added as the others stopped glowing. "How do you feel?"

"Invigorated." replied Izzy.

"I feel so free." said Tenma.

"I feel like I'm at peace." said Mimi.

"I feel stronger." said Ayame.

"That was the first step. Linking yourselves to you spiritual selves." said Shawn.

"I must say though, I am curious as to how you knew what you were when we didn't." said Izzy having heard Draymon.

"It's a little tricky to explain." said Shawn as he stood up. "Do you remember the day we faced Shellmon? When Evelyn and I pulled out those sacks with a red substance?" The four nodded.

"Well as we explained that it's a nutritional supliment but it's not an Elemental thing." said Evelyn.

"Then what was it?" asked Izzy.

"A blood suppliment." replied Shawn.

"Blood supliment?" asked Ayame. The two nodded. "So what are you vampires or something?" The two looked at her. "Oh my gosh you are, aren't you?"

"We're Dhamphirs." replied Shawn. "Our fathers are vampires of a different category but our mothers are human."

"The kind of vampire we are call themselves Day Walkers because we have the ability to survive in the day." explained Eve. "We don't have the weaknesses they have. Well most of them."

"We still retain the thirst." added Shawn. "So the scientists at the company developed a blood supplement which would sate our thirst but it only works until we're sixteen. Afterwards it becomes ineffective."

"So the two of you are vampires?" asked Mimi.

"Again Dhamphirs." replied Shawn. "We're half human."

"But what does that have to do with how you knew about you being Elementals before the rest of us?" asked Izzy.

"Well a legend amongst our people said that fire and water would be born into one of the first clans." explained Shawn. "They scanned every newborn Daywalker for signs of anything different and found it first when Eve was born and then again when I was born."

"So our parents looked for masters of different things so we could learn and become stronger." continued Evelyn. "For the last few years Shawn and I have been taught different things from martial arts to the mystic arts and many more things."

"Mystic arts?" asked Izzy. The two nodded.

"You two can do magic?" asked Tenma excited.

"Well we can use it but neither of us has had much practice with it so the spells we can use are very weak ones." explained Shawn. "Right now we mostly focus on physical combat more than anything. Even more than using our powers."

"I understand why." said Izzy causing Ayame, Mimi, and Tenma to turn to him.

"What do you mean?" asked Tenma.

"Even if they're half human vampires are significantly stronger and faster than ordinary humans." explained Izzy. "Now I understand why you were able to fight Andromon."

"Yeah but there's still something that worries me." said Shawn.

"What is it?" asked Tema.

"The experiment I was in had us in groups of four. Two boys and two girls. In order for us to work properly together they would small blood samples from each of us and injected them in the others."

"But then..." began Izzy as his eyes widened and Shawn nodded.

"I don't understand. What's going on?" asked Mimi.

"Vampirism is like a virus that can be transmitted through two ways. Saliva and blood." explained Izzy.

"So these other kids are Dhamphirs too?" asked Ayame.

"Most likely but..." began Shawn before looking to the side.

"What's wrong?" asked Tenma.

"Theoretically if these three kids were injected with Shawn's blood the traits of vampirism may cause them to develop powers like his." explained Izzy.

"Do you know who these three are?" asked Ayame.

"I only got their first names." replied Shawn. "Dominic, Madoka, and Mana. They're essentially my siblings by blood so I'll have to confront them some day."

"I'm sure it'll be fine." said Ayame with a smile.

"Thanks." said Shawn. "Now back to your training." he said. "Listen carefully because this part's important." he added as he knelt down and drew a large square with his finger which was sideways. Then he drew a circle in the middle before drawing a smaller circle in the middle of that and last drew lines which split the larger circle into six parts before extending part of the line to the square making two triangles. "Each element is governed by something different, so to speak." he explained as he drew the character for light on the left triangle and the character for darkess on the right. Then he drew the symbols for fire, lightning, and wind on the three parts of the circle on the left before drawing the symbols for water, earth, and metal on the three parts on the right. Then he drew the symbol for Ai in the small circle. "We're split into two groups. The elements that draw from light are fire, lightning, and wind while those who draw from darkness are water, earth, and metal."

"Hold on." said Izzy. "What do you mean draw from light and darkness?" Shawn pointed up causing them to look up.

"During the day you, me, and Tenma are at our strongest while Eve, Mimi, and Ayame are at their strongest at night. Mainly under nights of the full moon." he explained.

"I see." said Izzy. "So what happens to us during the other's time of strength or during an eclipse?"

"During the day my powers are weaker. At my peak I'd be able to access about seventy-five percent of my power." said Eve. "Which means the same for Mimi and Ayame. The same goes for you three during the night."

"However during an eclipse one side gains a much higher amount of power while the other loses the same amount." added Shawn. "For example during a solar eclipse the three of us would still retain our powers but we'd be significantly weaker only being able to use a max of about twenty five percent if that."

"But in turn the three of us would gain that seventy-five percent." continued Evelyn. "Once the eclipse ends our powers would return to what's normal."

"Fascinating." said Izzy. "So are there any abilities that we all share?"

"Well we all have an affinity to magic." replied Shawn. "Although we have to relearn it every lifetime. In addition we can fly but that takes a bit of practice to be able to do and more to be able to control."

"We each also have a kind of battery inside us to store energy." added Evelyn.

"A battery? Like toys?" asked Mimi.

"In a way." said Evelyn. "During the night the three of us will be storing lunar energy. We mostly only ever use it for Elemental Regeneration."

"So it helps us heal wounds and such?" asked Izzy.

"Essentially but every time a wound open and is closed by your powers it'll drain away a little of the solar energy stored inside you." explained Shawn. "You have to be especially careful at night. Since there's not enough solar radiation if your solar energy runs out your wounds will take the average human time to regenerate so it is possible for us to get scars."

"There's something I don't get." said Ayame. "You said there were nine of us total so what about the ninth one." she said pointing to the center circle.

"The Elemental of Love is just her title. She actually represents human emotions and is able to sense and influence the emotions of others." explained Shawn. "And she can draw from both the sun and the moon."

"There's something I'd like to know." said Tenma. "Why are all of us who get power from the sun boys and those who get power from the moon girls?"

"I was a little curious about that myself." said Mimi.

"I have no idea." said Shawn. "But we know the Elemental of Light is female and the Elemental of Darkness is male."

"So then the group is four males and five females?" asked Izzy. Shawn and Eve nodded. "Seems a bit unfair."

"Well that's the way things are." said Shawn. "There isn't much to tell besides that other than control of your powers requires a degree of focus. There is also one other thing although right now I don't think it really matters."

"What is it?" asked Ayame.

"Well..." began Shawn.

"Obviously you all know about dinosaurs, right?" asked Eve. They nodded. "Well during that time we each befriended a different dinosaur and both sides gained power from that."

"What kind of power?" asked Izzy curiously.

"Well just like we each have the power of our animal spirits we also have ancient animal spirits. Basically dinosaurs." explained Shawn. "Unfortunately that power has been locked away for a long time and even to this day we don't know of any way to unlock it."

"So we have other animal spirits?" asked Tenma. The two cousins nodded.

"Anything else?" asked Ayame.

"We...have dragons." said Shawn with a bit of hesitation causing the eyes of the other four to widen.

"You're kidding." said Izzy.

"Nope." replied Eve. "It's a long story but during the medievil times we were all born in England and became knights."

"Long story short an evil dragon started wreaking havoc so Merlin bonded us each to a dragon and said dragons sleep inside us until the day we can call on them." finished Shawn pointing to his chest. "They live in our souls but to call them we have to become stronger."

"That's awesome." said Tenma.

"Would we run the risk of calling them out at an inappropriate time?" asked Izzy.

"I doubt it." shrugged Shawn. "The dragons have a link to us so even if we could call them in our sleep or whatever they'd ask us what we wanted telepathically."

"We have telepathy?" asked Izzy.

"It's one of the three principals of magic." replied Shawn. "Magic of the Mind, Body, and Soul."

"How do you know?" asked Ayame.

"I was trained." replied Shawn. "Oh man before I forget there is one important thing I forgot to mention in regards to our ability to store energy and regenerate."

"What?" asked Izzy.

"The energy we store remains unused until we become injured but if we go beyond that and use extra energy that we don't have stored like take a blow but keep fighting. Once the adrenaline wears off every wound that has ever been closed by that energy through out your body will open simultaneously so be careful."

"If I may ask what about the swords that appear when we transform?" asked Izzy.

"Those are our soul blades." replied Shawn. "They partially represent a part of ourselves and are able to take on two forms. Sword and whatever else the person in question may be proficient with. Mine just goes from a sword to a bigger sword but in that form it can change into a bow that fires...well fire arrows."

"So how do unlock their other forms?" asked Ayame.

"Training and meditation." replied Shawn. "But right now we're still a bit to fresh to get them into the next forms so it'll be best to skip that for a while."

"So you knew Shawn before now?" Cumon asked Miria who was watching them from against a tree.

"Yeah." replied Miria. "When I was little I lost my family just like Shawn. I was taken in by a group of other kids who were homeless and taught how to survive. I guess that's why I've been worried about Joe."

"What do you mean?" asked Cumon.

"Joe's nice and you can tell he cares about everyone but it's that same thing that makes him great that stops him from realizing what needs to be done to survive." explained Miria. "Then again I suppose being a monster makes it easier to focus more on survival than morality." she said as she looked up with silver glowing eyes. Cumon looked at her curiously.

"Why are you making such a big deal out of this?" they heard Tai yell causing them to go with the others.

"Because it's way too dangerous." said Matt.

"There's no place else to go. We have no choice." said Tai.

"Look, before we do something foolish we should think it over a little more." said Matt as the others arrived and watched the two argue.

"You're just a big old chicken." said Tai.

"So what's this about?" asked Miria.

"They're arguing about whether or not we should climb Infinity Mountain." replied Jesse pointing to the large mountain.

"That's practically to the sky." said Joe surprised.

"Infinity Mountain's a doozy, that's for sure." said Tentomon.

"It's the perfect spot. We gotta climb up there. It's the best view of the island." declared Tai.

"You've gotta admit, he's got a point there." said Joe.

"That's not how Matt sees it." said Sora.

"Nobody would make it up that peak. It's much too big of a gamble." countered Matt.

"He's right Joe. There might be lots of evil Digimon up that peak." said Biyomon.

"Everything has risks." said Miria. "The question is would we be prepared to take it on."

"If we're not it wouldn't be good." said Joe.

"Come on Matt. Don't be a wimp. We won't get anywhere if we just stand around talking!" argued Tai.

"Put your fists down, talk to me, and stop acting as if you could just bully your way into being the leader." said Matt.

"What are you saying?" asked Tai.

"Knock it off you guys. Chill out." said Joe as he got between them. "Now look here. Calm down and let's be sensible."

"So what's your opinion about this Joe?" asked Matt causing Joe to become surprised.

"Yeah Joe. Tell us who's right. Me or Matt." said Tai. For a moment Joe remained quiet and became nervous.

"Well I think Tai's right about that peak. If we went up there we'd be able to see the landscape of the island a lot better." said Joe.

"See Matt?"

"Hold on." interupted Joe. "Matt brought up a real good point about the danger. It'd pretty dumb to lead everyone into a place we don't know anything about. It wouldn't be safe." he said placing his hand on his chin.

"Aw come on. Let's go as far as we can up the mountain." said Tai.

"That's stupid. We can't protect ourselves out there." said Matt.

"My oh my what fun." said Shawn dryly.

"Stop it right now." ordered Joe. "You're both making me a nervous wreck. Just give me a chance to think. Don't be difficult."

"What? You are the most difficult person I ever met." said Matt.

"Hey, I'm trying to make a decision here so don't interupt me." said Joe.

"You're just a big old chicken Matt." said Tai.

"You better take that back Tai." said Matt.

"Enough already! You're giving me a headache!" yelled Joe.

"That's enough you three!" yelled out Sora. "Now grow up! We have to decide what to do."

"Besides it's gonna get dark soon." said Biyomon.

"I think we oughta get a little shut eye." said Agumon.

"There will be plenty of time to argue later." said Gabumon.

"First of all we need to find a good place to sleep." said Sora. "Let's head for the cave." she suggested as she pushed Tai and Matt while being followed by the others minus Joe, Gomamon, Miria, and Cumon who remained. Miria looked at Joe with concern for a moment before following with Cumon.

Later that night almost everyone was asleep. One of the exceptions being Joe was thinking.

'Someone's gonna get hurt if I don't do something fast, but how? I couldn't even stop the fight. Instead I get involved myself.' Joe thought to himself. 'That wasn't smart. If I'm responsible for everyone's safety then I have to protect them. Their lives depend on me.' he thought as he got up and stepped out of the cave. "I'll do it." he said to himself. 'I've always been good at climbing. I've got the best chance at making it to the top.' he thought to himself as he began walking.

"Hey there." called out Gomamon. "What are you up to Joe? You're not gonna climb that mountain by yourself, are you?"

"Gomamon?" asked Joe.

"Yep. Forgot me already?" asked Gomamon.

"Why don't you go get some sleep?"

"Not happening."

"Yes it is."

"I don't think so." replied Gomamon as Joe began to walk.

"You're not going alone." said a voice. Joe turned and became surprised when he saw Miria standing behind him with Cumon next to her.

"Miria?" Joe asked surprised.

"Don't look so surprised." said Miria. "Unfortunaletely you're a little predictable. I figured you'd try doing something crazy by yourself." he added with smile.

"I have to do this." said Joe.

"I'm not gonna stop you. I'm gonna join you." replied Miria.

"Fine. Suit yourselves." said Joe as the four began walking. "Infinity Mountain is a lot bigger than I thought it was." he said as they climbed.

"Are you ready to quit?" asked Gomamon. "We can turn around.

"Course not." said Joe.

"How are you holding up Cumon?" asked Miria.

"I'm fine." replied Cumon.

"You don't talk much, do you?" asked Joe.

"I find it unnecessary most of the time." replied Cumon as Joe almost tripped.

"I can give you hand." said Gomamon. At that Joe turned.

"Huh? Hand?" asked Joe looking at Gomamon's clawed flipper...things. "You call that a hand?"

"Watch it." said Gomamon getting a bit angry as Miria and Cumon sweatdropped.

"I was kidding. Lighten up." said Joe surprising Gomamon.

"What's wrong?" asked Joe.

"I think you actually have a sense of humor." said Gomamon.

"What?" asked Joe.

"Oh maybe not." said Gomamon as they continued. As the four continued to walk Miria began to remember something.

/Flashback/

At the age of seven Miria was walking around looking for branches in a park since it was winter and they needed something to burn for heat. As she looked around she heard a voices and followed them behind some bushes where she saw a young boy on the ground and two older boys who stood over him.

"Are you gonna give us your money or what?" asked one. The boy stood up with an angry expression which allowed her to see his left eye was red. After one of the two guys was about to punch the kid but she stepped in and stopped the punch.

"You shouldn't pick on kids." said Miria.

"Oh? A brat thing she can take us on?" asked the other guy as the first grab her other wrist while the second took out a knife which he used to try to stab her. As he lunged the boy stepped in with his right forearm held causing the knife to go through it surprising her.

"You won't hurt her." he said twisting the guy's fingers forcing him to let go of the knife. After he took out the knife and put it put it through the other guy's arm forcing him to let go or Miria allowing her to punch him in the gut causing him to bend over in pain. The other guy moved to attack her but the boy kicked his shin before she punched him hard enough to break his nose. "

"Now get out of here before I really get mad." she said as her eyes flashed silver. The first guy helped the second and they left. After she turned to the boy who was looking at the wound on his forearm. "You're hurt." she said.

"It's fine." he said.

"We should call your parents."

"They're dead." replied the boy. "Thank you for helping me."

"Hold on." she said stopping him. "Do you have a place to stay?"

"No." he replied. "I'll find something."

"Why don't you come with me?" Miria asked. "There's a small group of us who don't have homes. We don't live far from here."

"I don't wanna bother." he said.

"It's not a bother." she said. He look at her allowing her to see that his right eye was golden.

"I guess I'll go with you." he said with a slight smile.

"I'm Miria Branford." she introduced herself.

"Shawn Garrett."

"I'm sorry you got hurt." she said. 'I don't ever let anyone get hurt so long as I can do something about it.' she promised to herself.

/End Flashback/

'I swore I wouldn't let anyone get hurt so long as I could do something about it and I don't intend breaking my promise now.' Miria thought to herself as they went over a small stream.

"Miria are you okay?" asked Cumon.

"It's nothing." replied Miria with a smile. Cumon was concerned but continued. As they kept going they found it got harder the more they went on.

"Yikes." said Joe as he climbed up.

"I could use a lift." said Gomamon before Joe helped him up.

"I need to take a rest." said Joe. Miria looked at him and smiled. "Looks like we're half way there."

"Maybe." said Miria as she looked up.

"What's wrong?" asked Cumon.

"I'm not sure." replied Miria just before they felt an earthquake.

"What's that?" asked Joe surprised.

"Earthquake?" asked Gomamon.

"You don't think this mountain is a...volcano?!" yelled out Joe.

"I doubt a volcano would do that." replied Miria as they watched part of the mountain open releasing some black gears.

"Those are black gears." said Cumon surprised.

"And they're coming from the top of the mountain." said Joe. "I guess there's no running away this time."

"We've definetely come too far to turn back." said Miria before they continued.

"This isn't possible. I'm sure I saw them up here." said Joe.

"Would it be too much to hope they disappeared altogether?" asked Gomamon.

"It might be." said Miria.

"We'll have to climb up there and see for ourselves." said Joe as the sun began to rise. Suddenly Gomamon, Miria, and Cumon looked up.

"What's that sound?" asked Miria.

"What sound?" asked Joe.

"That sound. Way up there." replied Gomamon. They turned in direction of the rising sun and saw something flying in their direction.

"What is that?" asked Miria.

"That's just great. A flying horse wearing a mask. This can't be good." said Joe exhasperated.

"That's not your everyday kind of flying horse Joe. That's Unimon. He's wise old Digimon. I never knew he lived in these mountains. He's not much of a talker." explained Gomamon.

"Hide." whispered Joe.

"I don't think that'll be necessary." said Miria.

"She's right. Unimon's very gentle." replied Gomamon.

"Your information hasn't always been reliable." said Joe.

"Cold but true." said Gomamon.

"He must be coming down to have a drink." said Joe as they watched Unimon land. "I guess that's his watering hole."

"There's something you don't see everyday." said Miria with a gentle smile.

"You see? I told he was a nice Digimon. He wouldn't hurt a fly." said Gomamon.

"Whoa. What a beautiful looking horse." said Joe.

"Maybe Unimon will tell us what we need to know. Then we can go back to our friends." said Gomamon before walking towards Unimon.

"Gomamon." said Joe.

"Hello Unimon. It's me. Gomamon. It's been a long time since..." said Gomamon before Unimon looked up. Then Gomamon, Miria, and Cumon looked up as well.

"That sound." said Miria.

"What is it?" asked Joe. "What's going on?"

"Do you hear that too?" asked Gomamon. Miria and Cumon nodded.

"Up there." said Miria as they looked up. The four looked around and listened.

"It's coming towards us!" yelled out Miria as they saw a black gear flying down which embedded itself on Unimon's back.

"Gosh. Think he's in trouble?" asked Joe.

"I think we should worry less about him and more about us." said Miria as Unimon's visor glowed violet for minute as he walked towards them.

"Hello Gomamon. Aren't you happy to see me?" asked Unimon as Joe held Gomamon while Miria and Cumon stood in front of them with Miria's eyes becoming mostly silver.

In the cave the Sora began waking up and saw Shawn sitting where Joe had layed down the night before.

"Shawn? Where's Joe?" asked Sora. Shawn pointed to the entrance. Sora went outside and saw a note written in the dirt. "He wouldn't climb that mountain by himself, would he?" she asked herself.

"Joe feels responsible for us." said Shawn as he walked up to her. "Miria and Cumon went with him."

"How do you know?" asked Sora.

"I gave her one of my spare sets of nanotech gauntlets." replied Shawn. Sora's eyes widened.

"Everybody wake up! We have an emergency!" yelled out Sora.

On Infinity Mountain the four were trying to avoid getting hit by rocks that were falling because of Unimon's attacks.

"Having a good time, dear guests?" asked Unimon. "I think I'm in the mood for a game of Aerial Attack." he said as a sphere of energy formed in his mouth which he fired hitting a part of the mountain causing more rocks to fall. Joe and Miria were helping their Digimon.

"You're not thinking of leaving, are you?" asked Unimon as he got in front of them. The four looked back to see the trail they'd take to get there had a massive gap. "That's a perfectly safe road if you're thinking of flying away." he said before opening his mouth and charging another attack. "Aerial Attack." he said as he launched it.

"We need help." said Joe.

"I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this." said Miria as she stepped forth.

"What are you doing?" asked Joe.

"Shawn, Tenma, and Tai aren't the only soccer freaks in this team." replied Miria as a dark aura formed around her which began expanding.

"What is that?" asked Cumon surprised.

"Is she an Elemental?" asked Gomamon.

"No. It's something else." said Joe as they saw the aura take the form of a large purple demon with black lines around his body and has black fists which also had red hair with two purple horns.

"Maou Garyse ({Demon Lord Garyse} 魔王ギラーゼ )!" yelled out Miria. "Hell's Fist (ヘルズフィスト)!" she yelled out as she thrust out her first causing Garyse's to do the same as it collided with sphere of energy. The Miria struggled to push the ball of energy until Cumon got next to her.

"K-Shot!" she called out as she fired a rapid volley of energy spheres in an attempt to help but were still being overpowered until two voices intervened.

"Hadouken!"

"Kikouken!"

At that two energy spheres hit the energy ball causing it to explode forcing Miria, Cumon, Joe, and Gomamon to cover their eyes due to the bright flash of light the explosion caused. Afterwards they looked and saw Inferno and Aquatica standing in front of them while Birdramon held Unimon against the mountain with Sora, Tai, and Agumon on her feet while Dracomon and Draymon were on her head.

"We've come to save you." said Tai.

"Are you all okay?" asked Aquatica as Tai, Sora, and Agumon ran towards them while Draymon and Dracomon jumped off Birdramon's head. Unfortunately they didn't see when Unimon got off the side and fired at Birdramon who was shot down.

"Birdramon!" yelled out Sora as she slid down the side of the mountain.

"Well?" asked Tai looking at Agumon who then digivolved into Greymon.

"Tai I don't think that's a good idea." said Inferno as Greymon tried to grab Unimon who was too high before Unimon smashed Greymon into the mountain.

"Greymon are you gonna be alright?" asked Tai.

"I'm stylin' dude." replied Greymon before Unimon smashed into him again. After Greymon fired a Nova Blast but Unimon dodged it before firing another Aerial Attack at the mountain causing parts of rocks to start crashing down on them.

"Draymon." said Inferno.

"You too Dracomon." said Aquatica. The two nodded and Digivolved into Bladramon and Coredramon.

"Eve you two go help Sora and Birdramon. We'll help Tai and Greymon." said Inferno.

"Alright but be careful." said Aquatica.

"Hey come on. It's me." said Inferno with a smirk. Aquatica smiled and got on Coredramon before they flew down while Inferno and Bladramon tried to help Greymon and Tai.

"They're in trouble." said Joe.

"There's gotta be something we can do." said Miria as Birdramon and Coredramon flew up and fired at Unimon who dodged and then tackled Birdramon into Coredramon causing the two to fall hitting the part of the mountain Aquatica and Sora stood on causing them to fall. Joe and Miria watched as Unimon flew.

"The gear." said Joe.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" asked Miria. Joe nodded.

"Here we go." yelled out Joe as they both jumped off, surprising their partners, and landed on Unimon's back before they began trying to pull out the gear causing Unimon to thrash in the air.

"It won't budge." said Joe.

"Don't underestimate the strength of a werewolf." said Miria as her eyes became black and silver before she pushed the gear.

"Don't try to be a hero!" yelled out Gomamon.

"Miria be careful!" yelled out Cumon.

"We have to do this." said Joe.

"I'm with you." said Miria as the two kept trying to remove the gear causing Unimon to thrash around more.

"I've gotta think positive. I'm responsible." said Joe before they both got thrown off.

"JOE!" yelled out Gomamon.

"MIRIA!" yelled out Cumon as Joe's and Miria's devices activated.

"Gomamon digivolve tooooo... Ikkakumon!" called out Gomamon becoming a very large walrus like creature with paws, tusks, and a horn on his head.

"Cumon digivolve tooooo...Accelamon!" yelled out Cumon becoming a much larger half mechanical cheetah like creature with exhaust parts that looked like they were from a motor vehicle and glowing gold eyes. After the two landed on their partners.

"Hold on Joe, we're going for a ride." said Ikkakumon.

"What he said." said Accelamon as Ikkakumon headbutted Unimon throwing him down. After recovering he fired an Aerial Attack. "Not this time!" she declared as she jumped with her upper legs. "Accel Buster!" she called out firing a blast of energy which exploded with the Aerial Attack as Unimon flew upwards.

"My turn. Harpoon Torpedo!" yelled out Ikkakumon as she fired two horns into the air which Unimon dodged.

"You missed him." said Joe.

"Don't be so sure." said Miria as they saw the black part of the seperate revealing green torpedoes which hit Unimon's back. After he left as the gear hit the ground and shattered.

"The black gear just dissolved." said Joe. "Yeah! We did it!"

"That amazing Accelamon." said Miria.

"You guys alright?" Inferno asked Greymon and Tai as he reverted back to Shawn.

"A little shaken but we'll be fine." said Tai.

"That was a really close call." said Sora as she and Evelyn ran towards Joe, Ikkakumon, Miria, and Accelamon.

"Good job. That's what I call pulling it together." said Joe.

Afterwards the Digimon returned to their previous forms as Tai shook Joe's hand.

"Wow Joe. You were jammin' out there. You're a pretty cool guy after all." said Tai.

"That was really brave of you two." said Sora looking at both Miria and Joe. "And thanks to that Gomamon and Cumon digivolved." Joe blushed as Miria smiled at him.

"That's not why I did it. It's because I'm a nice guy. Besides Joe would've fallen on his head." said Gomamon. "I didn't have anything better to do anyway." he said as Joe knelt down to his level. "Hey if you don't believe me then put up your dukes and let's fight about it."

"Just chill Gomamon. You're the best and heroes don't have to fight." said Joe with a smile.

"Oh. Um. Heroes?" asked Gomamon as he blushed as he put up one his front paws which Joe shook.

"Uh oh. Gomamon's embarassed." said Biyomon with a smile.

"No way. I'm no such thing." said Gomamon. After they turned to look towards the top of Infinity mountain.

"Come on everyone. We're almost there. Let's go all the way up to the top." said Tai as they kept going reaching the top shortly after but became surprised at what they saw.

"Well we're here but there's not much to see." said Miria with a slight frown as Shawn and Eve looked up. "You sense it too?"

"Yeah." replied Evelyn. "Something's definetely weird."

"You're not kidding." said Tai seeing the parts of the island they'd gone through but also parts that they were unfamiliar with which came together in a strange way.

"You don't see a snowy wasteland near a forest everyday." said Shawn.

"This place has proven to be unpredictable." said Sora as Shawn's eyes began to glow.

"What are you doing?" Miria asked Shawn.

"Scanning the landscape." replied Shawn.

"For now I guess we should be happy we made it up here." said Miria as she looked out towards the island with a sigh.

"Maybe but I've got a bad feeling." said Evelyn.

Author's Note:

Thus ends another chapter. First up for those of you who haven't figured this out: The story's called Digimon Remastered as a reference to Inazuma eleven where techniques could evolve to Kai (Remastered) and then Shin (True) although I've seen that in the games they could reach a level called Zetsu (Absolute). Second since this is after Inazuma Japan's win at FFI but before Go there are some just discovering the existence of Keshin making Miria the only character out of the thirteen humans with a Keshin. Also they don't know what a Keshin is so she doesn't call it a Keshin...at least not yet. Third I don't know if any of you picked up on this but Cumon's champion form Accelamon is actually based on Joco/Choco's Giant Oversoul/Giant Spirit Control from Shaman King with the difference being that Miria's likes jokes but isn't all that good at telling them while Cumon is something of the strong silent type. Or at least she seems to be. Fourth I'd like to issue a small set of challenges. As you've read in this Shawn has three blood siblings infected with his blood. The guy Dominic I made up and the name's a reference to Fast and the Furious. The other two are main characters from other anime which in this are considered as alternate universes. My first challenge is for you to find out who the two girls are and what shoes their from. My second challenge is this: Write a story thinking about how living through this would affect Tenma during Go or during Chrono Stone and how it'd affect his views on having to fight, not just through soccer. I'm not doing Galaxy because, as I said before, their universe is one part Marvel so they have the Nova Corp. to keep that kind of thing from happening but I will say that one of the remaining Elementals who hasn't appeared is one of the players from Earth Eleven. My third challenge is for those of you who figure out who the two girls mentioned are. Try writing something where they'd meet and see where it takes you. Back to the other thing. Fourth I know it seems like a bit much to have two Dhamphirs and a werewolf on the team but to be honest since their world is part Marvel vs Capcom it seemed like a good fit. Besides given that there's six Elementals on the team right now I didn't wanna have any of them as Mutants since the powers of a Mutant are trickier than the Elementals since their ability to use their powers is partially focused on their individual personalities and to a degree their ability to focus on certain things so there will be the occasional scene where there is training for Izzy, Mimi, Tenma, and Ayame. Final point: Some of you may wonder about Shawn and Evelyn using the Hadouken and the Kikouken but I'll have that explained next chapter. Sorry I took so long to update and I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any questions please review or send me a message. As I've stated before I discourage flaming but I'm willing to listen to constructive criticisms. Before I go I'll leave with this. When I get to 02 it'll be crossed over with Chrono Stone so it'll be a hell of a rollercoaster. Also if you figure out who a certain one of the two girls is her world will have the two sets of live action heroes knowing each other along with her group. I put two clues in the story. If you didn't figure it out it has to do with two things. Dinosaurs and batteries. As those of you who have watched Chrono Stone recall there's a point when they go to the Warring States Period so they'll have the company of the Sixth Battery User. As I said if you figure it out review or send me a message though I would prefer a message if it isn't about the story itself. Also try to think about how long a Dhamphir could live and how that'd affect the Chrono Stone story part of the sequel. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this. Till next time.