Shadows That Rain
Chapter 10: Faces Revealed, Powerful Duo Rosemon and MirageGoagamon
"Marvel Shot!" Lilamon shot with full impact betraying both Izumi and Nefertimon. They were both sent flying into the air trying to prevent crashing into something by flapping their wings like a break.
"I knew there was something misleading." Nefertimon hissed and readied a new attack, "Rosetta Stone!" A pink beam shot out from her back and a stone tablet attacked Lilamon with minimum effect.
"Is that all you have?" Lilamon smirked obviously unimpressed by Nefertimon's move and flew up into the air.
Fairymon started to fume, she hated being betrayed by others – it happened so many times during school as the other girls would only befriend her because they felt sorry and then when it came down to choosing deep down between friends she was always left out. The female diva struck out her hands and summoned an elemental attack, "Brezza Petallo!" Mini tornadoes appeared from her finger tips and targeted her opponent.
Zoe didn't leave any second wasted following up her attack with move after move, diving into the gust she had created with the Brezza Petallo attack, she struck out her fists ready to punch the living daylights out of Lilamon. The flowery Digimon fell to the ground and Fairymon continued with a final attack consisting of several fast rapid kicks at Lilamon's face, "Roseo Temporale!" Before giving in and taking a breath setting for higher ground.
"I thought the warrior of wind would be a stronger opponent." Lilamon sneered as she pulled herself back up with little ease and rotated the giant lily on her back, it came off and acted like a boomerang hitting Fairymon and Nefertimon in one go. It came round for another and just as the two started to gain strength to get back up the boomerang hit back and forced Izumi to fall back to her human form and Nefertimon back to Tailmon.
"She's played us, she's stronger then we imagined." Tailmon cursed using the little energy she had to get up as the lily returned back on to the smiling Lilamon's back.
"She hasn't seen everything yet," Zoe smiled optimistically proud she still had a trick up her sleeve, peering over to her sides in case anyone was watching with the clear giveaway, she summoned an orb of fractal code around her right hand scanning it in to her detector. "Execute! Beast Spirit Evolution!"
A stream of blue digital code surrounded Zoe and covered her in feathers and purple armour. Out of the sphere of data appeared a three taloned hand clawing away the digital data. "Shutumon!" The female beast warrior had finally showed herself in glorious tanned skin that would make any person jealous of, the lilac coloured bikini armour suit, brown feathered wings, a long black scarf around her neck like a rogue. With her light blue feathery hair covering most of her face and the help of her mask only revealing her light blue and anxious eyes.
"Now we're at the same level," Shutumon exclaimed, her voice deeper in tone like a young woman. She stretched the muscles in her wings, the smaller and more fragile light blue pair on her head showing that they had nerves and were able to flex and the larger brown pair on her back, as if they had been asleep for a long time, she glanced over at Tailmon sympathetically and asked, "Can you evolve one more time Tailmon?"
Tailmon tried to pull herself up, but collapsed sighing, "I'm out." Tailmon whimpered falling back down on the ground, "She's all yours Shutumon."
Izumi turned away from her weaker partner and focused all her attention at the smirking Lilamon already one step ahead in a fighting stance. The winged warrior of wind prepared herself as well summoning red orbs around her clawed talons and feet while Lilamon was charging up another round of her specialty as the lilies on her arms started to glow orange.
"Gilgamesh Slicer!" Shutumon yelled leaping through Lilamon.
"Marvel Shot!" Lilamon called shooting at close range as Shutumon was closing in.
A cosmic collision happened as debris was left to fly everywhere, both female digimon took some damage, Lilamon suffering more. Shutumon hardly with a scratch on her thanks to her defensive invisible coat had kept her balance on the ground as she turned around to see the results of her own attack; Lilamon felt her arms go nimble swaying from lack of control. The enemy Digimon fell to the ground, collapsing on to her knees.
Shutumon didn't give Lilamon a chance to even get up before preparing for another attack taking her arms to the side as a pink aura began to appear, she threatened, "Tell me who is behind all this."
Lilamon gave a little high pitch giggle, it started off sane, but then gradually started to become deeper as she continued on, it frightened Zoe and Tailmon watch as she maniacally got on to her feet, "You want to know cagna?" She spoke with slurred speech taking a wheeze at the end and cocking her head to the side at Shutumon.
She stared at Zoe with gleaming black beady eyes and then raised her arms in the air, "I'll tell you!"
Shutumon was appalled at what she had been called in Italian, it was one thing to lie, but calling a girl a female dog was going too far.
The warrior of wind prepared her attack, "Wind of-" she swished her hands and the pink glowing aura took on the form of sharp pink lead petals aiming for Lilamon, "-Pain!"
The attack was harmless; it bounced right off the psychotic lily Digimon. A digital orb surrounded Lilamon as her voice began to deepen, the maniacal laugh still ongoing echoing as she called out the frightening words…
"Lilamon slide evolution…"
It was silent for a moment as the laugh ended and Shutumon was caught off guard by the cackling sound of a whip as it breached through Lilamon's orb of fractal code. Followed by the actual whip piercing through the evolution orb it stretched to Shutumon and wrapped around the winged warrior, binding her arms, legs and wings together. The thorns jabbing into her tanned sleek skin cringing at the pain, struggling only resulted in more pain.
Tailmon lifted her head up at the female warrior in pain, she tried to pull her body up to stop the calamity, but her body was just as constricted as Izumi with the pain from Lilamon's earlier attack. "Zoe!" she called out.
"I…can't…move," Zoe gasped trying to wriggle herself out, but the more she tried the tighter it griped around her. Shutumon's gaze was stolen by the light that had dissolved to reveal the blossoming digimon in front in charge of the thorn whip.
"Rosemon!" the newly evolved digimon called out with confidence in her voice.
"What…do you want?" Shutumon tried to speak in between struggles for air as her lungs were being pulled in.
"I thought that was obvious by now?" Rosemon smirked, "I want you dead."
She tightened the grip on her whip and drew Shutumon in closer. She tried to resist, but found the thorns piercing into her skin more.
In the time of the fight a few people had started to gather around the park, Rosemon and Shutumon had become aware when there were whispers heard amongst them. Many parents told their children to stay away, but they resisted and wanted to watch the scene. A group of three kids ran in between the fight…Izumi was now placed in an even tighter situation. With Tailmon down and herself restricted, the children were only going to get themselves killed if they didn't move away.
"She's so pretty," The little girl with pig tails pointed at Shutumon staring in awe. As much as she wanted to enjoy the flattery she was in no condition to. Rosemon then cackled, "I could watch you die slowly or watch you panic over the deaths of these children right now…I wonder what seems more fun?"
Shutumon could only groan now trying to think of the safety of the children, "Get…out of…the way!"
Rosemon started to glow a red colour, the initiation of it drove a warning for Shutumon as she worried for the children. They were only standing there with their mothers panicked on the other side of the park, why aren't they running away? I can't stand to watch these kids fall like that…Shutumon closed her eyes and prayed for a miracle to happen.
She opened her eyes to the sound of silence as a flash of yellow leaped passed her light blue eyes. Staring at the creature from behind she pointed out distinguished features such as long blonde wild hair that ran down the back to the man sized being, striking Agnimon as her first guess, but as she followed her eyes down to the rest of his body it looked like he was in regular clothing, no metal straps from the rear…what's going on?
The creature turned around to face Shutumon with sapphire blue eyes, his face as legendary as it really was. She couldn't get the mental image of Agnimon out of her head. It had to be him, but he looked entirely different from Takuya's human spirit. He grabbed hold of the thorn whip wrapping Shutumon and snapped it in two. Incredible strength she was in awe as he nodded at the warrior of wind, as if to be allowed to move with his confirmation Shutumon moved and ripped through the withered thorn whip. Flexing her muscles as the blood rushed back into her ligaments.
"You save the children," He ordered.
No time to reply Shutumon listened obediently and dived for the children before Rosemon's attack could get to them.
"Forbidden Temptation!" Rosemon called out striking the empty ground that Shutumon had picked up the three young children out of harm's way and flew over to the assumed mothers.
She stared at them with pleading eyes hoping to not scare the humans away, she did look unusual whatever way you looked at it and the average human would definitely be concerned having their child being handled by some harpy looking creature. Zoe warned the older ladies, "Keep your children safe and leave! It's dangerous here!"
Handing over the final child with pig tails to her mother's side, she was a little insecure at the creature's revealing figure before her. It wasn't exactly every mother's wish to show their young children images of humans wearing kinky bikini wear. Shutumon nodded signifying her leave as the mother nodded faintly as a thanks and ran away for safety along with the other people.
"Who are you?" Shutumon had flown above head of the long haired blonde.
"It's me Agnimon." He grinned and then ran shoulder first into Rosemon pinning her down to the ground. Hopping off the female humanoid rose dodging a high heeled kick and rolled out of harm's way.
Like she was unsatisfied by the answer Agnimon had given her she brought upon more curious questions, "How are you Agnimon? Is it even possible? Why do you look different?"
"Time for questions later," Agnimon suggested and elbowed Rosemon in the back making her fall to her knees as she had tried to get up. He was at an advantage with combat strength, but being in the human form he was, was at risk of defence and lack of fire power.
Rosemon regenerated a new whip in her palm as the other one had withered away due to Agnimon destroying it and slashed the fiery blonde with it. He yelled in pain, never feeling pain like that before and fell back first landing on the grass.
"Agnimon!" Shutumon exclaimed seeing him hit the ground harshly.
If it is Agnimon, why doesn't Takuya just use a fire attack, he'd be at an advantage considering Rosemon?
Shutumon paused for a moment wanting to see how Agnimon responded to her plea, he wriggled trying to feel the nerves in his body once again, he managed to pull up to his feet and stand again. The warrior of wind sighed out of relief and noticed Agnimon wink at her from the corner of his eye. He rushed into battle once again feeling the adrenalin and jumped on to Rosemon's back wrapping his arms around her neck keeping her occupied.
The wind warrior flustered red from his action, is that really Takuya?
"Attack now!" He demanded.
Shutumon stuttered, "Y-yeh…eh…alright!"
"Gilgamesh Slicer!" She spread out her wings and dived for Rosemon with her arms in an "X" formation as red orbs appeared on her talons.
Agnimon jumped out of the way allowing Zoe the clear to attack with all power, as she finished and what was thought to have been a successful hit turned around to see Rosemon standing on her feet with a few scratches and grazes on her shoulders where the attack had hit.
Rosemon gripping her thorn whip tightly she grunted, "Good Teamwork…you actually landed a scratch or two on me. I'll give you props for that."
Sending an eerie maniacal laugh that pierced their ears as she floated high above and escaped through an invisible rift in the sky, she left with three words to echo through the warriors' minds. "Until next time!"
Zoe taken aback at her sudden disappearance snapped out of it and focused her mind on what was more important in this situation - Agnimon. Not forgetting to check up on Tailmon, she put the thought off once Tailmon was standing on all four paws, and was just as curious at Agnimon as Zoe was. Staring in awe at the strong warrior she pointed a clawed finger at him and asked, "Is that you Takuya?"
Agnimon shook his head, "Nope just Agnimon on his own."
"How is it possible you exist without Takuya bonded with you?" Shutumon lowered her hand and eased a little.
"It's a long story…but putting it short it was the result of some sort of backfire with Examon and Takuya's detector." Agnimon sweat dropped trying to cover up what looked like an embarrassing situation in his perspective.
Shutumon looked over at Tailmon who seemed to believe what he was saying and nodded showing Izumi he was alright to trust, "Okay…" she sighed.
Shutumon then looked around at the park and the damage that had been done to the area, a lot of grass taken out of its roots…there would be no way to explain what had happened unless the police were willing to accept that Elephants had come and demolished the area in two minutes.
"I think it'd be best if we left before any media or police show up," Shutumon implied, "It would be hard trying to explain that monsters from another world did this."
Agnimon and Tailmon nodded.
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Kouichi had been told to head for the right quadrant of Shibuya and fight the digimon on his own, it was a perfect level, which shouldn't be too much of a trouble with the help of Kaiserleomon. Once he noticed the Digimon he would be facing off, his assumptions of an easy battle were taken wrong. Kouichi took a stroll to the back alley of a conjunction of houses not too far away from the grounds of the school, the signal on his map was strongest around this area, but still no luck finding whoever it was until his detector began to beep rapidly on its own.
An image of the Digimon he would be facing off appeared holographically with information printed below, he read it out aloud, "Mihiramon, perfect level, holy beast type digimon and that I better watch out for his attack Treasure Stick…" Kouichi paused and looked down at his detector summing up the general information as he took precautions, there was no doubt it was nearby for the detector to pick up on Mihiramon, "Here Kitty! Kitty! Come out! Come out! Wherever you are?"
As corny as the last thing Kouichi mentioned, was how easy it was to spot Mihiramon. The tiger looking Digimon with large golden and white tipped bird like wings appeared in golden fur with purple stripes. A red neckerchief tied around its neck and shining purple anklets, purple shield like things on his shoulder joints with the word Tiger printed on it in chinese and a long tiger tail to go with it, "I'm right here," he uttered not amused one bit with the 'kitty' comment. He was standing on top of the vortex of the roof of a house.
"Alright, time to spirit evolve. Execute! Beast Spirit Evolution!" Kouichi smirked scanning his hand over his detector. The transformation taking place within a ball of fractal code ended and Kouichi roaring out, "Kaiserleomon!"
Another four-legged creature in black and gold armour appeared replacing the spot where Kouichi was previously, he let out a roar signifying his urge to fight and jumping straight into action he ran down the alleyway trying to find a way to get up to the same level as Mihiramon and out of public's view, he stumbled upon a bench like seat placed in randomly as he leaped off of that and on to a different house than the one Mihiramon was trying to land lightly to not collapse the roof. Kaiserleomon wasn't the lightest Digimon around, "Are you ready to fight?"
Mihiramon chuckled, "If you can catch me?"
"Fine by me-," Kouichi stated, but needed a different field to be able to chase him, these houses wouldn't cut out for speed and balance as they were fragile and a harsh landing would cave in the roof below his feet. Feeling almost numb as he thought about the end result if he collapsed then and there, he suggested "-But let's take it to the ground."
With that Mihiramon spread his wings and flew off ahead not needing any ground to travel, Kouichi grunted at his sneakiness and leaped off the roof to the floor, knowing it was his only way to travel. During the chase of Flamon, it had been different because the rooftops he had been running on were flat and built to support heavy weight items.
Mihiramon had surprising speed, so Kaiserleomon didn't waste any ounce of energy chasing after if he didn't want to lose sight of the tiger Digimon up ahead, "Seems like you're slowing down behind." Mihiramon looked behind quickly before putting flapping his wings and gliding faster, "You disappoint me legendary warrior."
"Then how about running on ground level to make it fair," Kaiserleomon retorted, being forced to put in more muscle in his sprint just to barely catch up, "The ground makes it…" Kouichi pondered trying to think of something to lure Mihiramon to the floor until he thought of something that no competitive warrior could resist, "It will be more of a challenge."
"As a servant of Rosemon…she warned me I'd be bumping into the legendary warriors," Mihiramon spoke stretching out his wings and gliding to the ground below, Kaiserleomon was surprised that he had listened, "But what she didn't mention was how slow the warrior of darkness was!" Chuckling at his comment and the angry face Kouichi was pulling as his feet were now his method of travelling.
He thought with the help of speed he had already reached and that it needed Mihiramon to start off slowly before rushing into a sprint that he could catch up. They were now turning the corner out of the alleyway and into the street of houses, where just up ahead would be the mini block of convenience stores such as the familiar bakery Takuya always passed to pick up something on his way to school, and beyond the set of stores was the place every child dreaded, it was his school and hoping to avoid to run into there, but Mihiramon wasn't going to make it easy.
With the heavy shock of the armour bearing creatures running made several people had pulled out of their stores as they ran passed surprised and almost in shock by wild beasts on the loose. Many rushed back indoors trying to avoid confrontation and pretending they hadn't seen anything.
"As long as people don't realise it's me under Kaiserleomon I should be fine…" Kouichi sighed as his strive for air was pulling on Kouichi's lungs after running for so long.
"I've got to do more cardio…" Kouichi muttered under his breath as he came to a halt and panted desperately for air. After recovering he knew Mihiramon was well ahead advantaged and wouldn't be able to catch up to him even if he tried, unless…I can find a shortcut…the school's up ahead, I can probably corner him if I take that alley road, the one we usually take to get to school if we're running late. Takuya's always to blame…Idiot! Anyhow it's perfect, Mihiramon you just wait to see who's slow. With a grin planted on his face he set out running again
Luckily for Kouichi the alleyway he planned on sneaking in was just ahead, he turned in and in the rush didn't notice Takuya and Kouji walking by clueless to the situation. The two jumped out of his way while he continued to stick to his plan. Takuya holding on to his dear life as he let out a little shrill from the sudden action, Kouji stared at him blankly hoping to erase that noise from his mind.
"You scream like a girl," Kouji commented before looking behind to notice the creature already turning the corner, "Hey, was that Kaiserleomon?"
Takuya scowled, but shrugged enough knowing it was pointless to argue back and replied, "So it wasn't only me who imagined that…" Takuya looked confused at Kouji who replied with his famous one eyebrow raised awkward face.
There was silence for a few moments before the thought came to mind and Takuya suggested, "You think we should go check out what's going on?"
"It wouldn't hurt, I don't think the fight before was fair…my human spirit proving to be stronger than your beast, " Kouji replied smirking smugly and grabbing his detector to spirit evolve. Already engulfed with fractal code it muted all sounds around as the transformation took place meaning blocking out any of Takuya's rants that would have been expected after that last remark Kouji pulled.
Along with Kouji evolving to his beast spirit so did Takuya. Kouji easily able to run though the alleyway and take the lead due to his smaller and more efficient size to fit in the borders of the walls that made the alleyway so narrow, on the other hand, Takuya was struggling having to walk in between rather than flying slowing him down and allowing Kouji the advantage of mocking him after this was done. Why couldn't my beast spirit have been a more narrow dragon thing, instead I get stuck with one that wouldn't hurt to lose a few pounds?
'I wouldn't only say that for your beast spirit kid.' Examon retorted, having to add on an unnecessary comment to everything Takuya doubted himself in.
"I don't need your extra comments Examon," Vritramon grunted, not enjoying his life at the moment. He could only imagine the smirk Examon would have on his face right now enjoying the torture of the warrior of Flame. That was one thing Examon and Kouji shared in common and if they weren't enemies by fate would most likely get along pretty well.
Takuya sighed at his demeaning thoughts and finally squeezed himself through the end of the alleyway with Garmmon waiting patiently for him ready to land another deceitful comment.
"I don't want to hear it," Vritramon exclaimed and flying on ahead of Kouji who earned a smirk on his face before following his lead on following Kaiserleomon, "Hey, look I just saw him turn the corner."
"He's heading towards the school," Kouji noted.
"Well then we'd better hurry, MirageGaogamon might be back for some more trouble already," Vritramon intercepted gliding to a halt as they came to the end of the corner. Unaware who they would be facing and facing off MirageGaogamon again when they hardly had a chance the last go sent a sharp shiver down Takuya's spine.
"It wouldn't be him; it's probably the perfect level that Zoe told Kouichi to take care of." Kouji pointed out after staring at Vritramon beside him and changing his view to the road ahead that lead to their school.
"Well if that's the case we can leave Kouichi to do it on his own…Kouichi would easily be able to destroy someone that level," Takuya suggested shrugging his large shoulders in doing so.
Examon seemed ticked at his words, 'Laziest warrior I know…even if the fight is easy you should never turn an opportunity like that down.'
Takuya steamed at the advice he was receiving from the Digimon that was idiotic enough to have trapped himself within his detector to begin with. "Fine!" He blurted leaving Kouji in the unknown to stare at him looking like he was going mad and talking to himself as he rushed forward in pursuit of the school.
"Weirdo…" Kouji sighed, shook his head and followed making sure the dragon boy won't do anything rash.
Vritramon's flight pattern was interrupted when a large explosion took off, from his higher view over the large school fence that blocked intruders from breaking in, Takuya noticed a red coloured explosion. The one behind the attack jumped straight into his mind as the only warrior he knew with a red coloured special attack was Kaiserleomon. Back on the ground he looked over at Garmmon and said, "We'd better hurry, it seems like Kaiserleomon's in the fight already and that the school will be destroyed with it if we don't interfere."
"I thought you would be happy about that," Kouji retorted.
"Now's not the time Kouji," Vritramon grunted and flapped his wings to increase his speed to prevent further damage to the school grounds.
The way they had entered the school would be leading them through the side entrance of the school, this was used for deliveries and emergency drop-offs for ambulances whenever there was to be an emergency, whereas, the way Kouichi was headed he was off to the back gate of the school near the teacher's car park.
The two after intervening through heaps of obstacles came to the standoff between the tiger Digimon known as Mihiramon and their ally Kaiserleomon.
"Kaiserleomon!" Kouji exclaimed making sure to keep real names out of the picture since he noticed there were a few cars still parked teachers staying behind to finish some duty that didn't obviously include students.
The black lion glanced over with his tensed crimson eyes wondering who the new voice was. After noticing Vritramon and Garmmon he lowered the intensity in his eyes and called back, "Garmmon, Vritramon!" Kouichi happy to see them involved hoping they would be able to stop this energetic opponent.
Just then Mihiramon took note of the new warriors in the battleground not on his side and felt the pressure. He felt cornered standing on the balcony of the second floor that lead to the emergency evacuation flight of stairs attached to the rear building of the school, with Vritramon able to fly above head and Garmmon blocking one end while Kaiserleomon on the other he had no choice but to take charge.
Mihiramon bluffed smirking and spread his wings ready to take flight, but was stopped in his tracks as Vritramon dived from the sky and jabbed his talons directly in his wing and with unbelievable strength dropped him with strength to the ground. Like a cockroach on his back Mihiramon was stuck and Kaiserleomon took advantage next.
The lion Digimon roared, "Schwarz Donner!"
Sending blasts of dark coloured aura shooting from his mouth to Mihiramon, continuously by the recoil of the pistons on his back, Kouichi finally stopped when Mihiramon seemed completely defenceless and looked like he was ready to say something.
"Now tell me what I want to know before your life's ended," Kaiserleomon hissed at the Mihiramon, "I put your ally Wizardmon in the same situation as this, but he didn't give me any answers to this very question."
"W-Wiza-" Mihiramon's life had been cut short by the very foot of Vritramon. His clawed feet had stomped right through the Digimon's head as the data began to develop and a ring of fractal appeared orbiting around the faded out Mihiramon. The fractal code became a stream and followed into a path of Vritramon's jaws as if he had enjoyed eating it.
"Takuya?" Kouji questioned, wanting to know what was up with his dragon friend, Takuya seemed almost out of it. It wasn't in his nature to be condemning something's life like the way he just did. There safe method was always to purify the Digimon and let it be reborn safely in the Digital World.
Vritramon opened his eyes in shock at hearing his own name not realising what he had done. He looked left and right at the twins gawked faces.
"What's wrong with you two?" Vritramon questioned still receiving the same exact reactions.
"Weren't you just aware at what you did to Mihiramon?" Kouichi replied with another question, a slight tone of anger in his voice. He was so close to receiving an answer, but Takuya whether he was aware of the situation or not had cut it short from him, "You ate Mihiramon's data like it was breakfast or something. I didn't even get the chance to get the answer to who was behind all this."
"What are you talking about…I didn't do anything…wait, did I?" Vritramon seemed as confused as his mind allowed him to. With the way things were adding up, being clueless to the story the twins were telling him, were they imagining it or had Takuya been asleep during the incident. His mind lit up with a possibility.
'You caught on did you?' Examon mocked.
'What happened to our deal?' Takuya replied telepathically.
'I didn't do it for my own benefit; it was to show you what a true warrior should be acting like. No hesitation in the murder of an opposing Digimon, any hesitation can result in your own murder. Your petty friends wouldn't want that would they?'
Takuya remained silent and troubled within his own thoughts until Kouji picked up on the flame warrior's troubled thoughts while Kouichi was still disappointed in the lack of answers second time round. Kouji spoke.
"Takuya, I think you should transform back, you don't seem well."
"Don't worry, I'm fine," Takuya grunted feeling a light sting in his neck as he tensely spoke.
"Either way, the job's finished so we can turn back," Kouji replied as he looked around to his audience only noticing empty cars and other than the few cars parked it was completely deserted or so he thought, when he was caught off guard and a very furious yet afraid vice principal stormed from behind his car to see if everything was in the clear, but instead caught two new additional monsters with the dragon he saw earlier. On the verge of wetting his pants and his face completely red with fear he overcame it and began walking to the feared warriors.
"It's Mr. Yamanouchi…" Takuya gulped, the teacher he despised the most had most likely just witnessed the whole fight process and was now going to discover their secrets - that was until he spoke.
Angrily finger pointing, sweat dripping and breathing heavily he accused the three powerful hybrid Digimon. Mr. Yamanouchi was sure to keep a good two metres between him and the supposed alien monsters, he fumed, "Look what you barbarians have done to my school grounds!"
Garmmon growled at his annoying voice and wanted to just ignore him and leave flying off but they knew Mr. Yamanouchi wouldn't give up until he had some answers…but what idiot would face three creatures that could easily outmatch the power of a grizzly bear and not be afraid that they might eat him. Kouji had to give him that he was probably even more stubborn that Takuya at times.
'Haha, it's my favourite guy. I've practiced a few new jokes in my spare time, why not we try them out?' Examon blurted.
'Don't even think about it! If he finds out my true cover who knows what would happen.' Takuya shouted within his mind.
'Seeing that's the circumstance, I'll let it go this one time…' Examon grumbled.
Takuya's last priority was to receive a whole month's worth of after school detention so he decided to play it safe knowing that his true identity was safe for now, and hopefully Examon would stick his word. The first idea that popped in his mind was the very one that would save them, "Gle ba tre cas roar!"
Garmmon and Kaiserleomon phased weird glances at one another and then over to Vritramon who surely and strangely knew what he was doing.
"You three are going to pay for the expenses!" Mr. Yamanouchi exclaimed not backing down.
Vritramon then showed his sharp taloned hand to the teacher sending a shiver down his spine and pretended he was discussing something with his peers, "Seg ma ya ta mago seruk I" Trying to show the others his plan with limited actions in the face, Kouichi finally picked up and joined in leaving Kouji still to figure out what was going on.
"Se kast to eat me tryi fes." Kouichi and Takuya both put on a pretend sly and evil look towards the vice principal. Bearing their sharp jaws at the nuisance and offering a beast like growl, Mr. Yamanouchi was now turning pale white with fear; the two took a step forward intimidating the vice principal.
Mr. Yamanouchi fell to his bottom and almost looked as white as a new bleached shirt, he quickly controlled his legs back and managed to get up and run away faster than Takuya and the twins could have ever imagined he could manage with his stubby legs.
Once their vice principal was clearly out of sight they laughed their heads off. Kouji let out a heavy sigh finally realising their childish plan and muttered for advancing off this humiliating time, "Hurry we should transform back…" giving the landscape once more a scan before showing the all clear, "before anyone else shows up."
"Alright boss." Takuya chuckled still with the humiliating face of the vice principal on his mind, "It'd probably be better if we transformed back in that alleyway."
The twins agreed and after several minutes they found themselves casually walking back home knowing their parents would be curious as to why they were so late returning home. They noticed the sun already beginning to set despite daylight saving still on…that told them it was already around seven thirty to eight.
Kouichi and Takuya found themselves going over their joke at the vice principal until Kouji finally became fed up and brought upon another subject once again feeling left out of the conversation the whole time and noticing there was currently something more important to discuss.
"So Takuya, I wanted to ask, how's everything with Examon been going?" Kouji questioned dramatically changing the atmosphere. At the word of Examon Kouichi silenced himself and Takuya immediately brought himself to gaze at his red and black detector.
"I can't say it's been normal…" Takuya muttered reminding himself that Examon was always with him and couldn't mention anything about the strange dreams or private memories the two shared.
Examon's thoughts pressed into his mind remembering the promise the two swore on, Examon may have broken it for those few moments but he had explained himself.
"Ever since we first became Digimon we can't say that any day has been normal," Kouichi attempted to hopefully lighten the mood taking the heat off of the flame.
"Agreed," Kouji nodded.
Takuya's attention still focused on Examon, and momentarily blocking out the twins for his mind to connect with the dragon emperor, 'Hey Examon…'
'I'm not in the mood to talk right now!'
"Don't need to say it so grumpily!" The anger in Examon's tone had reflected on Takuya rebelling out loud, "You've got to get off of your high horse Examon."
Kouji shared a confused glance at Kouichi and asked, "Did we miss something?"
"I think he's angry at Examon or something…" Kouichi suggested, "They seem to have a telepathic mind, so they could have been chatting before Takuya got pissed."
"Takuya, are you alright?" Kouji muttered.
"I'm fine!" The brunette fumed alert now at his surroundings, but not in the mood to share what had happened with the others.
"Doesn't look like it…" Kouichi added on.
"A certain Digimon just has annoying mood swings." Takuya jerked staring at his detector that he had placed in his pocket after Examon had yelled at him.
"Like you're any better you sad excuse for a warrior!" Examon blurted out enraged till his ends.
"Whatever…" Takuya replied bitterly. Just as much as Examon was offended, Takuya wasn't in the mood to speak at all.
"Kay, seems like Kouji started a bad topic, how about we change it..." Kouichi recommended sweat dropping and half heartedly laughing at the stare he was receiving from Kouji, "Let's see…lately I've been having this really strange and occurring dream…"
"A dream?" Kouji questioned interested in the current new subject, "What's it about?"
A dream…maybe Kouichi's been seeing the same things as me about Examon's memories…Takuya raised his ears curious to hear but kept his head down to not reveal his nosey features and be flooded with a new round of question at his latest outburst at Examon.
Kouichi described his dream despite there being a tense atmosphere looming around, "I'm not sure, this might sound crazy, but every time I have the dream I see a girl just a little younger than me that I remember from my childhood. This might sound weird, but it's like she's calling out to me…to go and see her again."
"A girl?" Takuya interrupted alerting his attentiveness to the situation. Then he isn't having the same dreams…
Kouji was becoming a little more interested in the conversation waiting for the right moment to comment, Kouichi mocked, "Yes Takuya, a girl something you seem to oblivious about."
"Hey what do you mean by that?" Takuya divulged raising an eyebrow.
"Yeh that's right, how's Zoe been lately Takuya?" Kouji joined in the fun picking up on Kouichi's lead, "Mr. Orimoto Kanbara."
"Orimoto…hey that's Zoe's last name." Takuya flustered from embarrassment, "What are you trying to imply?"
"Way to figure out Zoe's last name." Kouji gave him a slow clap for his slow brain.
"Tell me what you're trying to say -" Takuya demanded bitterly, raising a fist ready to take some action, the anger still looming from the argument with Examon ticked him off right away"- Or someone is going to find his hair shorter by morning."
Kouji stopped Takuya's fist from flying to his face and threatened, "No one touches the hair!"
Kouichi snickered at his line and then turned his attention to Takuya who was eyeing from the corner of his enraged eyes; he articulated "Love does make people blind."
Takuya's hand began to cramp from Kouji's pressure, "Mercy," he called.
"And what else?" Kouji raised an eyebrow keeping Takuya tamed with his strength.
The pain was starting to surge and Takuya spoke rapidly exclaiming, "And I won't threaten your hair again!"
"That's better," Kouji smirked and released his friends tensed up hand continuing his stroll with his hands back in his pockets.
Takuya wrapped his uninjured hand around the cringing one and applied pressure letting out an almost yelp from the pain, he mumbled to himself quietly so Kouji wouldn't hear but knowing the feel of speaking it would relax his built up tension, "I'll show you and your little prissy hair."
"Takuya, you're really slow, but will let you figure this one out on your own." Kouichi stated giving an eye to his brother who returned a smile.
Takuya grunted and walked ahead, "You two are both annoying."
"We try to do our best." Kouichi retorted and stayed back with Kouji for the remaining of the walk. Kouichi soon split from the pathway heading over to the train station while Kouji and Takuya made their way over walking to their homes.
"Kouichi's the only who catches the train from us six right?" Takuya tried to confirm directing it at Kouji as he held his hands arms tightly behind his head and walking with a slouch, completely forgetting his defeat earlier.
"Doesn't JP as well? The two of them live in Shinjuku?" Kouji corrected Takuya.
"That's right." Takuya spoke to himself, the conversation had somewhat died down as Kouji turned into his street saying bye in his attempt-at-being-cool-way or how Takuya saw it and left the brunette to walk the couple blocks he had left before he could reach his own home.
Having the small moment to ponder about life, Tommy popped into his mind, he uttered, "I wonder what's happening with him." I haven't seen the kid for almost a whole week now, seems quiet without him.
'The warrior of ice?' Examon spiked interest.
"Yeh, Tommy's inherited the spirit of ice." Takuya spoke casually to the dragon emperor as if their whole dispute hadn't happened.
'You'd better watch out for him….'
"Wait what?" Takuya puzzled, snapped his neck at the direction of his detector – retracting a little from the pain from the cut on his neck, he choked out, "Is something going to happen to Tommy?"
'Nothing…' Examon closed the case, having felt the need of speaking too much.
"Examon this isn't a joke. If something dangerous is going to happen to a friend, I want to know." Takuya stomped his foot and gripped firmly around the detector.
'I don't know the plan itself, but you should keep a keen eye on him.' Examon stated boldly trying to calm the anxious boy.
"Wait hold on…I thought you weren't in the mood to talk, what happened? And aren't we enemies anyway – I'm curious as to why you're mentioning this information to me?" Takuya replied, making sure to corner Examon in his proposals.
'You know that saying; keep your friends close and your enemies' closer,' Examon expressed effortlessly.
"Sure," Takuya said sarcastically, "You insult anyone who attempts to become your friend."
'Whatever, pathetic human.'
"There that proves it, we're friends."
'No we're not, how did you work that out? No wonder your friends think you're a complete nut case.'
"Who said I was a nutcase?" Takuya blurted.
The two of them continued to argue until the two arrived back at the Kanbara household. Takuya was curious to know where Agnimon had run off too, he hadn't seen him that very Saturday morning, it would be good to know where's been going. His prayer was answered when Takuya was leaning on his bed reading to take a quick snooze to pass the time despite having some homework to complete. Agnimon popped in through Takuya's bedroom window, having to squeeze in through the square opening.
"Who's there?" Takuya jumped hearing something rummaging through his room as he sat straight up and realised it was the one who he wanted to initially see, "Agnimon."
"Hey," Agnimon awkwardly greeted with his hand embarrassedly wrapped around the back of his neck mortified by his stack job inside the window, "I was discovering the area, and I bumped into the warrior of wind earlier. She led me to your house." Agnimon added.
"Warrior of Wind? You mean Zoe," Takuya gaped trying to adjust to Agnimon sudden intrusion, for a tribal resembling human his Japanese was pretty casual, "Is she outside my house?"
"No, she left earlier I was keeping an eye on the neighbourhood earlier in case that Rosemon was back," Agnimon elaborated pulling himself up from the ground, "She was the very one who leashed out those Lynxmon on your little brother the other day."
"Rosemon?" Takuya tried to recall as he remembered creaming the fire cat digimon.
"Rosemon, a very strong ultimate level digimon, she managed to get away but we have a hunch she may have been the one behind the other Digimon ambushes as well," Agnimon noted.
"We had a tough battle as well against a Pinnochimon and a really strong wolf looking Digimon known as MirageGaogamon," Takuya contemplated hoping they were one step closer to cracking down on who was behind all these attacks, there seemed to be others than the Royal Knights, "MirageGaogamon managed to escape though."
"MirageGaogamon, it'd be expected he would be a tough opponent," Agnimon replied and then looked over at the detector beside Takuya, "Would you happen to know anything about this?"
"For the tenth time! I'm not involved with these attacks – we lower Royal Knights don't get told everything, only the specific task required," Examon rattled around in the detector acting like some jumping bean.
"Chill Examon, Agnimon is new to the world." Takuya established giving a half-ease smile to Agnimon. "So you were saying something about the warrior of wind that you two bumped into each other?"
"Not literally, we both were caught up in a fight against Rosemon, but she managed to escape unharmed," Agnimon said.
"So what exactly happened?" Takuya furthered the conversation.
"Not much to explain, it's just I bumped into a fight already undergoing between Shutumon and Rosemon and helped her out." Agnimon had no field in storytelling, he kept it short, "The warrior of wind and a Tailmon headed back to their own home and said something that the warriors needed to assemble and discuss things about all the new things appearing again."
"Yeh I was thinking about that too. Half of the group don't even know about you Agnimon," Takuya contemplated.
"I've got that feeling again like we're being watched again, but not by MirageGaogamon or Rosemon," Agnimon pointed out, changing his face from smiling to serious in a second staring outside the window to the night filled dark sky.
"Who could it be then?" Takuya questioned his mind more alert than ever trying to pick up on a sense, "Examon would you know anything?"
"I'm picking up on something, but it's very faint and far away," Examon replied unwillingly.
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To be continued…
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Who liked this extremely long chapter? I wanted to go through a whole afternoon of what would soon be an average day for the frontier kids. It seems the twins are starting to drive our clueless brunette towards a brick wall and with Examon's antiques only driving him even further…what's going to happen.
Stay tuned and I'd love to hear some feedback in the review guys!:) Have a good day.