One month later Tai smirks as he stares down Lobomon, the Human Spirit of Light had been unable to break him but he had broken the others. Now it was down to the last spar and there was no way in hell Tai was going to lose in this final spar. The others were all sprawled out on the ground groaning, every time Lobomon had failed to break Tai he had increased their training and had threatened to return and test them just to make sure they kept up with their training. Needless to say all of them were going to keep up with their training. TK, Davis, Selena, Veemon, Patamon, Kazemon, and Meteormon have gathered to watch this last spar between Tai and Lobomon.

Lobomon moves first and Tai pivots on his left foot and nails Lobomon with a side kick. The light warrior spins to face Tai even as the eleven year old backflips away. Take him down, Tai, he could use some more humbling!

Tai smirks, he'd heard that and was fully prepared to humble the Light Warrior. Come on, Tai, take him down. Agunimon encourages the younger leader.

Lobomon rolls his eyes at this commentary even while Tai keeps his eyes on Lobomon's, though he also watched the rest of Lobomon's body for any movement that would give him away. Tai had dodged before Lobomon had even realized he had committed to an attack, a left cross, leaving him open for a roundhouse kick, and then Tai immediately drops down into a sweep kick. Then he somersaults to his right before turning a backflip, just in time to dodge a drop kick. Selena smirks, Lobomon was so gonna get owned in this fight, as Tai-nii had taken every fight against him as an opportunity to learn more of his fighting style and formulate the proper way to take him down.

Davis grins as he watches Tai tuck and roll under a right hook kick and then immediately nailing Lobomon in the ass with a kick. Tai immediately changed positions, as he had learned from Jaden you never stayed in the same place for a spar or fight. Hit and fade attacks to wear your opponent down, then you went in for the kill. Jaden( in Shinjuku, visiting Takato) is currently watching through JagerLowëmon and laughing his ass off. He'd taught Tai well, good thing his cousin was also watching through Mùshòumon . " Is Lobomon always like this? " Takato asks his cousin.

" Yeah, because he doesn't like losing to goggle heads, Takato. He's been trying to break Tai for a month Digital World time and he hasn't succeeded. " Jaden remarks.

Back to the Digital World, Etemon is wondering where those damned kids have hidden themselves. Especially those younger kids, they were the ones that were really hard to deal with. The princess of flames shouldn't even be here and yet here she was, making a nuisance of herself. Then there was the other child, the one with the Veemon and the Earth Spirits. Then there was the boy with the Angemon as a partner, all three of them had to go, immediately.

Back at Piximon's place Lobomon draws one of his light kendo sticks and Tai smiles at this, Lobomon was really determined to break him. " Where's your honor, Lobomon, I'm unarmed. "

Lobomon curses and puts his weapon away, Damn gogglehead! Why won't he just lose like he's supposed to?

Koj, no gogglehead ever surrenders, no matter what the odds are stacked against them. Sure we may have our doubts and we may almost quit, but we never surrender or retreat if we can help it. Takuya fires back at his best friend.

Tai leaps up into a spin kick and Lobomon blocks the one, not expecting Tai to switch momentum and nail him with the other leg, sending him sailing into Piximon's side wall. " Dammit, Takuya, I will make Jaden pay for this. " Lobomon snaps.

" Hey, no threatening Nii-chan, Lobomon. " Selena snaps.

" Your brother trained him. " Lobomon retorts.

" Want me to spirit evolve and kick your ass, Uncle Koji, as I know damn well you've taken control. " Selena fires back.

Takuya starts laughing at this and on Earth the rest of the digidestined Kanbaras are laughing at this too. Tai takes advantage of Lobomon's distraction and lays him out with a high kick, " Do you yield, Warrior of Light? "

" Dammit, yes. Shut up, all of you Kanbaras. " Lobomon snarls.

Indeed Selena, Takuya, Jaden, and Takato were all laughing their asses off at the fact that Tai had beaten him. Why would I do that, buuudy? Takuya asks him.

Why are you my best friend again? Koji wonders out loud.

Hurtful, Koj, real hurtful, I even named you Jaden's godfather. Takuya says.

Kazemon rolls her eyes, " We'll sneak out in the middle of the night, less chance of being spotted. "

" Sounds good, you guys stock up on food with that wonderful purple backpack? " Tai asks.

" We sure did. We also made a lot of medicines. " TK says.

" Yeah, Meteormon taught us how to identify the flora and make the medicines. " Davis says.

Meteormon had also been teaching Joe since Joe was the medically inclined one. Lobomon had allowed it to, as they needed more than one medic in the group and it wasn't fair for only the younger ones to learn all this natural medical knowledge. Selena stands up and stretches out before looking at Tai, " Care for another spar, Tai-nii, I need someone closer to my level to spar with me again. "

While they weave around each other TK goes over to Matt with Patamon and Davis just lays back, " We have three crests to find, right? "

" Yeah, why, Davis? " Izzy asks him.

" Well, we won't always be able to sneak past Etemon to get the crests and mine is one of them. We still need TK and Sora's as well. " Davis states.

" Not to mention those missing puzzle pieces Selena found out about, that would be another two crests, right? " Joe states.

" At least another two crests. " Mimi confirms.

" Right, that means we have at least two more that should be with us, yet aren't for some reason. " Matt remarks.

" So, we essentially need to find out how many of us there are supposed to be and make sure we all get here for the big finale, as something tells me that we'll be back on Earth for some of this fight. " Tai says.

" You've spent way too much time with me and nii-chan, Tai-nii. You're right, everything's about to go to hell and we may not be able to do anything about it immediately, you guys will have your own Light. " Selena says.

" That's one of the other crests. " Izzy says.

" Correct and if I'm right it belongs to Kari. " Selena states softly.

" This is all because we witnessed that fight between two digimon when we were kids, right? " Tai asks.

" The Heighton View Terrace incident, makes sense that digimon were involved. Davis, did you see that fight? "

" Yeah, I did, we Motomiyas have always lived near the Kamiyas. Jun didn't see the battle but I most definitely did. " Davis says.

" All we need to do is find another kid whom saw that battle then. " Sora says.

" It may not be that easy, guys, the other kid may have been called for a different reason altogether. " Selena cautions them.

" True, Selena is a second generation digidestined after all, we can't afford to make too many assumptions. " Izzy admits.

" How will we know if Kari is one of us? " Tai asks.

" First of all, Meeko will try and make off with her digivice, something tells me you'll end up back on Earth near home shortly, Tai-nii, before you leave your apartment, search it for a digivice. Our next enemy after Etemon may just have the next digimon which means he could have the Crest of Light. " Selena says.

" You want me to grab the digivice so we can try and get the crest and my sister's partner back first, right? " Tai says.

" That would be the wisest course of action, Tai. It would not be prudent to unveil Kari before we have things set up somewhat in our favor. " Izzy states.

" You're right, this is a war and we need to plan accordingly. " Tai says.

" We can't just charge in and hope to win, we also have to make sure to keep Etemon from using his Concert Crush Attack. " Matt adds.

" We have to surround him and hit him from all sides, and make sure we vary it up so he can't detect an easily discernible pattern. " Davis states, " What, I'm a gogglehead too, I know how to lead, it's just not my time yet. "

" Makes sense, you're right, we need to plan for our next encounter with Etemon, that reject rock star. " Mimi states firmly.

Ophanimon's Castle:

" Lord Seraphimon, we must locate the other child and quickly. " Lady Ophanimon says.

" I know, but this one feels closer to Lord Cherubimon than either one of us. What is Cherubimon doing anyhow? " Lord Seraphimon asks.

" Watching over the Sovereigns. " Ophanimon answers.

" Why did we create that overgrown flaming chicken anyhow? " Seraphimon asks, referring to Zhuqiaomon, the ruler of the south.

Ophanimon sighs at this question, as Takuya had asked it after he'd had to beat down Zhuqiaomon for being too arrogant. " Zhuqiaomon is the only one of the sovereigns that gives us trouble, though maybe we should put him on a probationary period if he doesn't shape up soon. "

" How long of a probationary period? " Seraphimon inquires of his fellow celestial.

Ophanimon ponders this question and turns to look at the monitors allowing her to keep watch over her children, the first generation Legendary Warriors. She had chosen them and they had done so well. They had actually gone beyond her expectations in defending the Digital World, they'd nearly died to keep the Digital World safe, would have if not for the child she'd saved by calling when she did, dear Serena, the Wasser Königin, or Water Queen.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Digimon.