SailorStar9: Chapter 8 goes up, this is Chapter 9. Enjoy.
Disclaimers: (Looks around) Has Takuya and Kouji become a couple in the anime yet? No? Then I don't own any Season of Digimon, well except for my OC.
Chapter 9: Uncontrollable Beast Spirit! Garmmon's Evolution
The next day...
"Hey, where is he?" Takuya asked, the group having awoken to find Kouji gone.
"Not here." Izumi replied.
"Not over here either." Tomoki reported.
"Where the hell is he?" Junpei wondered.
"Where could he be?" Izumi mused. "What is he doing?"
"Ah, we lost him." Takuya concluded."Bokomon and Neemon must have gone with him.
"Oh?" Tomoki picked up a folded piece of paper under a rock. "What's this?"
"Went with Kouji some time ago, so..." Izumi read. "Bokomon and Neemon too?"
"That guy Kouji." Junpei sighed. "I can't believe him."
"He really likes to be alone." Izumi noted. "I don't think we'll ever understand how he feels."
"But, why?" Tomoki wondered.
"Argh!" Junpei shredded the note. "He's already ruined my day, too. That bastard."
"Despite what we've been through, I'm weak too, aren't I?" Takuya remarked. "I'm just as good, and Kouji is a part of this team. If we go our separate ways, then we can't help each other. Let's go after him."
Meanwhile...
Gotsumon was observing a statue. I've definitely found it this time, the spirit of a Legendary Warrior. Almost got it, the Guardian Light.
In the forest...
"No more..." Neemon complained, after he and Bokomon followed Kouji to a stream. "Hey, why are we here?"
"Bakamon." Bokomon chided. "You remember Kouji's digivice talking to him, don't you? What was that about? Kouji must be up to something and we should help him."
"Hey, hey, Bokomon." Neemon voiced.
"What?" Bokomon asked.
"I'm Neemon, not Bakamon." Neemon corrected.
"I'll show you!" Bokomon snapped his pants.
"I wonder if this is the right path." Kouji mused. "You!" he glared at the two rookie Digimon. "You followed me, didn't you?"
"Of course!" Bokomon replied, the duo following Kouji into the bushes. "Kouji, wait for us!"
"Watch out!" Neemon exclaimed.
"Who's that..." Kouji demanded as the two rookie Digimon fell onto his shoulders. "Not you guys!" the impact, causing the trio to fall into the plains below and crashing into Gotsumon.
"Who?" Neemon wondered.
"Gotsumon." Bokomon recognized. "They're the bullies of the Digital World. Once a Gotsumon goes wild, it can't be stopped."
"Are you alright?" Kouji asked.
"Ah, mind your own business." Gotsumon snapped.
"I see." Kouji noted. "This is..."
"Hey, hey, Gotsumon." Bokomon voiced. "Do you know how to get to the Forest Terminal?"
"Find the Terminal yourself!" Gotsumon retorted.
"Kouji, run after him." Bokomon instructed ad Gotsumon took off.
"That's right." Kouji agreed and ran off after Gotsumon. "What?" he frowned, when Gotsumon blended into a rock to avoid detection. "He's not?"
"Where did he go?" Bokomon mused.
"Not here." Neemon added.
"The Forest Terminal, tell me, you won't even consider it?" Kouji demanded.
"What do you think you and I have in common?" Gotsumon revealed himself. "Tell me why should I help you?"
"You're quite cold!" Bokomon snapped. "This sort of thing is what makes Digimon so easy to control."
"Don't assume things." Gotsumon snapped when he sensed the fear of his comrades through the rock.
"Help us!" the Gotsumon fled as the mountain collapsed when the Digicode was taken.
"Where is the Spirit?" Grottomon demanded, having slide-evolved from his Gigasmon self. "Tell me!"
"Grottomon!" Kouji snapped.
"I won't forgive you." Gotsumon swore.
"Don't go near that guy!" Kouji warned when Gotsumon took off.
"That guy..." Gotsumon promised. "I'll make him suffer."
"Hold on, you can't fight him." Kouji cautioned.
"Shut up!" Gotsumon retorted.
"I won't lose!" Kouji promised. "Spirit Evolution! Wolfmon!"
"This human is a Digimon?" Gotsumon gasped when Wolfmon leapt overhead. "That mark is..." he recognized the 'Light' kanji. "One of the Ten Legendary Warriors?"
"Hey, run!" Bokomon took off after Wolfmon.
"Wait!" Neemon followed suit.
"Stop!" Wolfmon stopped behind Grottomon.
"What, stop?" Grottomon turned. "Ahahaha, it's you?" he mocked. "To meet you in this place?"
"What?" Wolfmon growled.
"I'll send you on your way to hell." Grottomon promised. "Then, I'll finally give your Spirit to Cherubimon-sama. Grottomon, slide evolution!"
"Gigasmon!" the Beast Hybrid manifested. "Earthquake!"
"Licht Sieger!" Wolfmon revealed his laser blades to counter the Beast Hybrid.
"What are you doing?" Bokomon exclaimed as Gotsumon hurried over to the battlefield.
Spotting the unconscious Light Warrior, he jumped to his side, "Hey, hang on." he urged. "That's..." he noticed the ruby prism dropping down the crevice. "The Guardian's Eye; Miko-sama's Ruby!"
"Where are you?" Gigasmon hollered. "You can't hide! I'll find you!"
Climbing over the Light Warrior, Gotsumon used his power to blend into the surroundings.
"Where are you?" Gigasmon shouted, looking around and leapt off.
"Can you run?" Gotsumon looked over at the awakening Light Warrior.
"Yeah." Wolfmon replied.
"Come this way!" Gotsumon instructed.
"Where are you going?" Wolfmon asked.
"Listen up!" Gigasmon hollered. "Where the hell are you?"
In the Gotsumon village...
The remaining Gotsumon were hiding underground.
"Kouji, are you alright?" Bokomon asked, the Human Hybrid having de-digivolved.
"Yeah." Kouji replied.
"Rub this on your wounds." Gotsumon tossed a balm before the pre-teen.
"Why did you help me?" Kouji asked.
"That poor bastard will see how much I hate him." Gotsumon snorted and headed out.
"Poor bastard?" Kouji echoed.
"What are you doing?" one of the Gotsumon demanded. "You can't do it alone. We'll do it together. We won't lose."
"Shut up!" Gotsumon shook the other Gotsumon off.
"You're going out just for that?" Kouji reasoned.
"I won't give up." Gotsumon swore. "I'll find the Legendary Spirit. We need a Legendary Warrior!"
"Hey, where are you going?" the Gotsumon pressed as Gotsumon headed out. "What is he thinking? He is our friend, you know? It seems outside assistance won't be needed. He's going back to the ruins to look for the Spirit."
"Spirit?" Kouji echoed.
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End Commercial Break.
At the ruins...
"What's this?" Neemon wondered and he and Bokomon fingered the 'Light' kanji on the rock.
"Wolfmon's mark." Bokomon realized. "It's could be Kouji's Beast Spirit."
"Oh..." Neemon noted. "Where are you doing?" he looked over at Kouji who was fiddling with his D-tector.
"Kouji's Digivice." Bokomon supplied. "He must sense his Spirit. If he senses it, then his power will release the Spirit."
Back at the battle-battered field...
"I'm saved." Gotsumon peered into the crevices. "It's in the vicinity."
"Are you sure he came this way?" Junpei asked as the rest of the group walked through the grass plains. "Where could Kouji be?"
"That guy's voice?" Grottomon snorted, awakened from his nap. "Not today. They're not going to take away my Spirit. Grottomon, slide evolution! Gigasmon! Earthquake!" he attacked the un-digivolved kids.
"Gigasmon!" the group gasped as the attack slammed onto the ground.
"It's started..." Gotsumon realized. "Have I found it this time?" he wondered as the shockwave shook the earth free, revealing the glowing ruby within a crack. "A Spirit of a Legendary Warrior."
At the ruins...
"Is that Grottomon?" Kouji wondered, seeing the falling debris in the distance.
"And possibly Takuya and the others?" Bokomon added. "Kouji!" he called as the Light Warrior headed off.
"Where are you going?" Neemon asked.
On the plains...
"What?" Gigasmon taunted. "Aren't you afraid?" before four beams of light shone on him.
"Spirit Evolution!" the children chorused.
"Agnimon!"
"Fairymon!"
"Blitzmon!"
"Chakmon!"
"Bring it on!" Gigasmon challenged. "If you think your powers are better than mine!"
At that, the four Human Hybrids attacked.
"Hurricane Bomber!" Gigasmon threw them off with his attack.
"Chakmon!" Fairymon gasped when Chakmon's Digicode appeared.
"You're mine!" Gigasmon jumped to claim Chakmon's Spirit. "What?" he demanded when Fairymon pushed Chakmon aside, and taking the hit for the Ice Hybrid.
"Fairymon!" Chakmon winced as he fell to the ground.
"Spirit, I'll eat you!" Gigasmon then claimed Fairymon's Spirit, forcing Fairymon back to her human form.
"Izumi!" Chakmon called as Izumi fell into the grass.
"Blitzmon, let's go!" Agnimon gave the order.
"Yeah!" Blitzmon agreed and the two attacked the airborne Beast Hybrid.
"Gigasmon, slide evolution!" Gigasmon slide-evolved into his Human Hybrid self. "Grottomon!" and slammed both Human Hybrids off with his hammers. "Snake Eye Break! Now, I'll be leaving." he declared, having forced the last two Human Hybrids back to their human forms.
"Licht Sieger!" came Wolfmon's sudden attack.
At the ruins...
"Grottomon, that guy..." Gotsumon growled, looking back at the battlefield, the last remaining Guardian's Eye in his hand. "I've got the hurry an get back! I'll be a Legendary Warrior too!"
On the plains...
"Hah!" Grottomon snorted. "You again?"
"Tell me what you did to the Spirit." Wolfmon demanded.
"Hah!" Grottomon retorted. "How about this? Snake Eye Break!"
"Fight with honor!" Wolfmon snapped, dodging the hammers.
"What?" Grottomon snapped when Wolfmon kicked him on the head. "Wait!" he hollered. "Grottomon, slide evolution! Gigasmon! Wait!" the Beast Hybrid took after the Light Warrior.
"Are you alright, Izumi?" Junpei asked.
"I'm alright, but..." Izumi looked at the fizzling screen on her D-tector.
At the ruins...
"What are you doing?" Bokomon asked, as he and Neemon looked up at Gotsumon who was climbing up the last stone Guardian.
"I don't understand." Neemon admitted.
"I'm so... close!" Gotsumon looked at the ruby prism in his hand.
"What?" Bokomon looked at the explosions in the horizon.
In the dust storm, Gigasmon and Wolfmon was decking it out.
"Ah?" Gotsumon wondered. "That guy again!"
"Hurricane Bomber!" Gigasmon followed Wolfmon out of the sand storm, striking the Human Hybrid on his back and sending him crashing into the stone Guardian. "I've got you!" he declared as Wolfmon's Digicode appeared.
"Kouji!" Bokomon called as Kouji was forced out of his evolution.
"Are you alright?" Neemon wondered.
"Angry Rock!" Gotsumon jumped in between Gigasmon and the pre-teen. "You have..." he told Kouji, tossing the ruby to him. "You have to put it in the eye! Do it!"
"This is..." Kouji looked at the prism.
"You can unlock... a Legendary Warrior's Spirit!" Gotsumon assured.
"A Legendary Warrior's Spirit?" Kouji echoed. "Gotsumon!" he gasped when Gigasmon hammered the rock Digimon with his fists.
"You spoiled my plans!" Gigasmon fumed.
"Come on, hurry!" Gotsumon urged.
"Don't just hang there!" Bokomon added.
"Huh?" Neemon blinked as Kouji swung himself over to the statue's nose and inserted the ruby into the eye socket.
With the three Guardian's Eyes in place, the three Guardians shook, knocking Kouji off.
"What's happening?" Bokomon exclaimed.
"What is it?" Neemon wondered.
"What's that?" Gigasmon demanded as the three Guardians' heads turned to him, the three rubies shooting out their laser beams at him, and burning a hole on the ground.
"Kouji!" Takuya called, the rest having arrived.
"Can it be?" Kouji wondered as the Beast Spirit of Light manifested.
"The Digivice spoke to him." Bokomon realized.
"Listen." Neemon added.
"That is...?" Bokomon looked at the glowing Beast Spirit.
"Listen to your heart." Kallan's voice sounded from the Beast Spirit. "And let it resonate with the Beast Spirit."
"Beast Spirit!" Kouji called and claimed his Beast Spirit.
"The Spirit is in this place!" Gigasmon looked at Light Beast Spirit.
"The Legendary Spirit..." Gotsumon gasped as the Beast Spirit flew into Kouji's D-tector.
"Spirit Evolution!" Kouji wasted no time in calling forth his new evolution. "Garmmon!"
"Warrior of Light, Garmmon." Bokomon referred to his book.
"Garmmon of Whatmon?" Neemon echoed.
"Garmmon!" Bokomon snapped his pants.
"Kouji... evolved again?" Takuya gasped.
"How did he...?" Junpei was stunned.
"You have the Beast Spirit." Gigasmon noted.
"One of the Legendary Ten Warriors... evolved!" Gotsumon gaped.
Takuya could not really describe exactly what had happened to him the moment Kouji Beast Spirit Evolved into Garmmon...he felt strange...cold...almost like he had lost something.
He was not sure when it was he had fallen to his knees and clutched his chest in pain, he only knew it had happened when Tomoki had ran up to him, after seeing him fall and grabbed him by the shoulders...shaking him and making sure that he was alright. After blinking rapidly a few times, Takuya watched in silence as Garmmon and Gigasmon battled it out. "I can't...feel him anymore...it's like he's...gone. It hurts...I don't know how to explain this...he's...not here." Takuya whimpered softly, and the other three looked at each other in concern, realization dawning on them, and Izumi took a small breath, letting it out as she realized exactly what was going on.
"When Kouji Beast Spirit Evolved...something happened...so is that really Kouji still fighting or something else in his place? Oh I wish that Bokomon was here to explain this to us!" Izumi cried out in frustration as she reached out a hand and gently squeezed Takuya's shoulder.
"What's wrong?" Neemon wondered when Garmmon slammed into a tree.
"The Beast Spirit isn't under his control." Bokomon realized.
"Hah?" Gigasmon snorted. "You can't control it?" as Garmmon slammed into another tree. "Now Wolf Boy's gonna watch his friends die first! Starting with him." Izumi gasped as Gigasmon pointed at Takuya, who looked back up at him wide eyed. "Me thinks you'll be a wonderful snack before I eat Wolf Boy's Beast Spirit kindly!"
"YOU WON'T TOUCH HIM!" a voice growled menacingly as Garmmon body-slammed Gigasmon away.
I'm here now...don't worry, he's mine... Kouji's voice ripped through Takuya's mind as he saw Garmmon standing before the group. Takuya's mind reeled...Kouji...he could feel him again. Did that mean that he had gained control of his Beast Spirit? When Takuya looked at Garmmon again, it seemed that way. His eyes were not glowing that bright white light that they had at first when Kouji had just Beast Spirit Evolved, and now all he saw were their dark blue depths. And relief surged through him.
"No good!" Bokomon warned as the two Beast Hybrids charged. "Run!"
"Why?" Neemon wondered as Bokomon pulled him away as the cliff crumbled beneath the two Hybrids' feet, sending them crashing into the sea below.
"KOUJI! NO!" the group could not stop what was happening, Takuya fended their other teammates off as they tried to hold him back. All that mattered was that he got to the raven before he fell over that stupid ledge with Gigasmon...Gigasmon deserved it, not Kouji, not the stubborn-headed...
Puling himself free, he hurried over to the collapsing cliff.
"You!" Gigasmon snorted as he fell into the water. "I'll take your Spirit... next time, I won't fail!"
Garmmon's claw was seen next, as he heaved himself back to the cliff, de-digivolving into the injured Kouji. "I've got... my Beast Spirit..." he muttered, before exhaustion took hold and he proceeded to fall back when Takuya reached out and grabbed his wrist. Pulling the battle-weary Light Warrior to safety, Takuya landed on his back on the ground, the impact resulting in the exhausted Kouji planting a brief kiss on his lips, and causing both pre-teens to blush and Kouji to stumble off Takuya seconds later.
Omake
Takuya: (Pulls Kouji to safety and lands on his back on the ground with Kouji above him and both pre-teens start making out like there's no tomorrow)
Izumi: (Squeals and whips out camera)
Junpei: (Mouth agape and covers Tomoki's eyes with his hand as Takuya and Kouji proceed to do R-18-rated stuff)
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