The Return to the Digital World

Lupine Laser: How's everyone doing? I hope you guys like the story so far. Please review! I do not own Digimon.


Bokomon scratched his head and flipped open his book. "It seems that this particular Strabimon is to be the only Warrior of light so if he is turned into an In-training Digimon, there is a much higher chance that he will not become a Warrior of light," Bokomon explained.

Chapter 11: A New Finding

ZOE'S POV

By the next day, Strabimon had fully recovered. I was so glad that he could move about again. He kept on climbing trees and swinging from vine to vine until we couldn't find him for a while. He did come back after we were so worried. He even found some fruits that we could pack for our journey.

The Gotsumon, who was Kouji's friend, came to check on Strabimon. Though I knew that he was disappointed that Kouji could not remember him, he hid it well. He came to visit often, since the cave was not too far from the village.

Now, I was watching Strabimon. We had become closer since now I was like a big sister to him, in charge of taking care of him. We were in the forest because he said he had to go in and I had to make sure he did not get into any danger, so I followed him in. Even though it was early morning, inside the forest was quite dark.

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"Not sure. Just this feeling. Wonder what it is," Strabimon answered. He was staring intently into the forest, walking in the direction where he was staring.

"Do you think it will be dangerous? I don't want you to be hurt," I said.

"Not sure either. Don't worry about me. I just want to find out what that feeling is," he answered. Sighing, I just continued to follow him. I kept on tripping on small roots and branches on the forest floor but Strabimon was quick to make sure I did not fall.

After half an hour of slow walking, so that I will not trip as much, we came out of the forest. The clearing that we came to ended off with a cliff. It looked like there should have been something ending off the cliff but the whole thing collapsed. It looked very very familiar. Where have I seen it before? I searched my memories for it.

Meanwhile, Strabimon had walked over to the end of the cliff. "Strange... This place looks familiar," he mumbled. Suddenly, he crouched down low, just like before. He was having the headache again. I ran over to him to see if I could help. Actually, we knew that the headache would subside by itself. I ran over to make sure he did not run away or fall off the cliff in this case.

It was over soon enough. He stood up and said, "This place used to have three big stone statues. Have you seen it before?"

After hearing this, I remembered where this place was. I was so excited that I almost shouted, "I know this place! It was where you found your Beast spirit of light when you were Kouji!"

"Can you tell me more about it?" he asked curiously.

"Sure," I said. We walked over to a tree and I recounted the things that happened last time. I said that he had ran off the night before to the Gotsumon village, met this Gotsumon, the at-that-time-evil Grumblemon attacked him and was saved by that Gotsumon and all the other things that happened, including me loosing my Human spirit of wind. I told him that the Gotsumon saved him again by blocking Gigasmon's attack and threw this red jewel to him to put it into one of the statues' eye. Then, his Beast spirit appeared and he became KendoGarurumon. He battled against Gigasmon and both of their attacks caused the three statues and the earth below them to crumble into the sea. KendoGarurumon almost fell into the sea too but he managed to grab on and the Gotsumon pulled him up.

Strabimon seemed very fascinated by this story. He believed it too. "I wish that I was still in my human form, then I could spirit evolve into my other evolutions," he said sadly.

"Can't you digivolve by yourself?" I asked.

Strabimon shook his head. "I don't think so. If not, why did AncientGarurumon create spirits for you humans? Why do you need D-tectors? I must be in human form to digivolve, I think. Do you know a way that I can become human again?" he asked.

I shrugged. "I don't know... Should we head back to the village to ask Bokomon?" Strabimon nodded and we headed back.

Back at the cave, everyone was waiting for us. "Hey, where have you been?" JP asked.

I told them that we went to the cliff and Strabimon's headache and all. "So... Bokomon, do you know any way in which Strabimon can become Kouji again?" I asked.

Bokomon took out his book, as usual, and flipped to some pages. "I can't find anything. Normally, it is impossible for Digimons to regain their memories fully. They can act like how they would act previously, but not fully. As for turning a Digimon back into a human, you are the only ones that I have seen turning into a Digimon and back into your human forms. In other words, I have no idea how to transform Strabimon back into Kouji." Hearing that, Strabimon looked down and was totally quiet.

Bokomon quickly said, "How about we make a small detour to go to Fortuneteller Village? Maybe Shamanmon can help us. What do you say?" Strabimon nodded.

"Well then," Takuya said, "we shall leave tomorrow!" We all agreed. We all slept early so that we would have enough energy for the trip to the Fortuneteller Village.