Everyone was watching in horror the two beasts growling at eachother.
"You guys,this is crazy! Think about what you're doing! Koji, Takuya! Stop this!" Yelled Beetlemon.
"This fight won't be pretty and I don't want either of them to get hurt, but it's a necessity, otherwise Takuya might remain like this and destroy everything and probably himself too." Said Nayna who was watching from the side, not too far away from the warrior of thunder.
"But this is crazy! They'll hurt each other!"
"Then go help Koji get Takuya back. Sitting back and shouting useless things won't help." She said annoyed then looked at the scene before them.
"This is the test Shamanmon was talking about? But why was he talking to Tommy if Koji and JP are the ones fighting?" She thought looking back at Tommy.
BurningGreymon kicked Beetlemon hard, sending him in one of the pillars of the temple, destroying it.
"Takuya, stop!" Said Kendogarurumon as he ran over to help only for the dragon beast to swing its tail, hitting the wolf sending him flying too.
Kendogarurumon didn't even had time to get up that BurningGreymon came running his way holding in his clawed hand Beetlemon by his head then threw the warrior of thunder harshly over the beast of light then started to destroy the pillar around him as if they were challengers, roaring up to the sky.
"There has to be a way to stop him." Said Kendogarurumon finally managing to get up.
"Best way is to wear him off so no one gets hurt." Said Nayna.
"What are you still doing here!? You and the others must get out of here before he attacks you!" The wolf said looking at the white haired girl.
"Don't worry so much about us. Worry about the fight. Right now you are the only one fast enough to wear him off."
He growled and turned back to face the other beast again.
"Alright, if a fight is what you want, fight me!" He shouted making the dragon to turn his way but spotted Beetlemon first.
"Don't look at me." Said the warrior of thunder flying off, in his place jumping Kendogarurumon.
"Ia he really going to fight him? What if they hurt each other?" Said Zoe watching the scene before them scared for her friends.
"I'm sure Koji knows what he's doing." Said Nayna approaching her and Tommy.
"Yesterday he couldn't control his spirit either. What if he loses it too?" Asked the blonde looking back at Nayna surprised to see the white haired girl calm and relaxed.
"He won't. He trained last night and managed to control it completely." She said only to hear the wolf beast shout out the name of one of his attacks as he sent a blast of light at the other beast.
"Or he is an idiot who can't follow the most simple instructions…" She said annoyed looking at the wolf. "Hey! I said outrun him to wear him off, not attack him! You're advantage here is not strength but speed. Use it!" She shouted at him.
"You're talking like you are the one fighting. Let me do my thing!"
"What? Losing?"
"Stop bugging me already!" He growled annoyed not realising that BurningGreymon was about to hit him only for Beetlemon to hit the beast of flames away from them.
"Come on, before someone gets hurt." Beetlemon said as he and Kendogarurumon ran into the nearby forest but instead of running after them, BurningGreymon used his lasers to shoot at them but he started a forest fire that grew uncontrollable.
" We gotta stop him before he levels the whole forest… or the whole world." Said Beetlemon looking at the blazing trees worried.
"I'll stop him." Kendogarurumon said as his blade/wings fanned out and he took off towards the dragon beast knocking down even more trees.
"No!" Screamed Nayna watching horrified at the burning forest.
"We're suppose to stop him not help him wreck the place!" Beetlemon said as he followed.
"Put away that wings of yours and just speed in and spread the dirt!" Growled Nayna annoyed with the wolf digimon.
"Didn't I told you to take cover with the others!?" He shouted her way only to be kneed in the face by BurningGreymon.
"Karma…" Said the girl flatly.
After he hit Beetlemon too, putting him to the ground, the beast of flames put his clawed leg over him pinning him down.
"Takuya, don't! It's me!" Shouted Beetlemon, thing that seemed to stop the beast putting his claws to his head, covering one of his red eyes that for a moment got a tint of blue and stopped his assault, letting Beetlemon go. In a short while though, his eyes turned red again, Takuya losing control once again and started attacking again letting out an animalistic roar, everyone covering their ears.
"Make him stop before my ears explode" Said Nayna through gritted covering her ears.
"Told you to go with the others" Said Kendogarurumon in the same situation.
"I so hope you'll be hit by Karm again…"
Suddenly BurningGreymon flew up the hill where the others were trying to run from the flames of the forest. Luckily, Beetlemon rammed into him getting the dragon beast away from the humans but BurningGreymon grabbed him by his head again throwing him on top of the wolf digimon again. He was about to grab them again but Nayna jumped in front of him.
"Come and get me, you oversized lizard!" She said jumping away when he was about to hit her, ending up hitting the ground.
"Try again!" She said then rolled by his leg to dodge the hit of the other leg.
"NAYNA!" Shouted Kendogarurumon petrified.
"What is she doing!? Is she crazy!?" Asked Beetlemon horrified.
"She's being an idiot, that's what she's doing" Growled Kendogarurumon speeding her way, taking her on his back and putting her away as fast as he could.
"What are you doing!?"
"I could ask you the same thing! Are you out of your mind!?"
"I know what I'm doing!" She growled at him.
"What? Getting killed!?" He growled back.
Suddenly they heard the others screaming Tommy's name. Looking over, they saw the youngest of their group in the clutches of the beast of flames who was holding him high up.
Nayna was about to rush over to help but stopped.
"That's it. This is the test. This is what will get Takuya back."
"What are you talking about?" Asked the wolf looking at her.
"Don't you remember what Shamanmon said? The greatest test will be faced by them. The only way they will make it is by trusting their friendship and each other."
"Are you sure about this?" He asked unsure, his body tense, ready to pounce on the beast of flames.
"If that digimon knows what he was saying then yes."
Suddenly, BurningGreymon's eyes turned sky blue and gently put Tommy down only to turn and rub, slamming his head repeatedly on a boulder until it crumbled.
"Wow, I always knew he was hard-headed but not like this… Well, at least he found a use for it." She said with a shrug getting a glare from Koji who turned back human.
Takuya finally dedigovolved too, kneeling by the crumbled boulder sobbing loudly,
the others looking down at him in pity.
They left the place, only Nayna looking back at the smoking forest, in her mind appearing the image of a white wolf in front of a blazing forest.
"Are you ok?" She heard.
Looking back, she saw Zoe looking at her in concern.
"Yes, let's go." She said following the others.
Soon enough, the group stopped by a pound, Takuya kneeled by the water staring at his reflexion.
"Um, Takuya, are you okay?" Tommy asked.
"I should be asking you that. Thanks Tommy." Takuya said as he stood and faced the others.
"Aw, it was nothing, but you're welcome anyway." Tommy blushed.
"It wasn't nothing, it was the bravest thing I've ever seen." Takuya said.
"Well, I owe ya one. Now we're even." Tommy smiled.
"Aw, the trials of friendship. Take note you two for when you get your Beast Spirits." Bokomon advised.
"Um, why don't you go first?" JP joked at the blonde.
"Oh, no, you. I insist." Zoe mock bowed.
"Why don't you two go at once." Said Nayna passing between the two whacking both of them over the head. "The little mocking game has no use right now."
"Why do you have to be so mean? Not even Koji is that mean." Said JP rubbing his head.
"What I want to know is what were you even thinking jumping in the fight like that?" Said Koji turning to her with a frown.
"Oh, don't start that again." Said the white haired girl rolling her eyes.
"There is something weird about you."
"Wow, Koji, you're really the charmer. With this kind of words you won't have a girlfriend too soon...or ever." She said turning away from the group.
"You seem to know more than you want to show. I think-"
" I don't care what you think of me" She said looking over her shoulder at him, her eyes filled with fury then turned to him. "What if I'm hiding something? What's the problem with that? I don't believe that you told us everything about yourself, did you?"
"Why don't you tell us? You don't trust us?"
Hearing this, the others turned to look at them.
"With this? No. . . I don't trust you."
"Hey, we're a team. We can help you." Said Takuya.
"Help me?" She said amused."You can't even help yourselves and you want to help me? Yeah, right…" She said turning away from them again, leaving them behind, ignoring their shouts.
Nayna started to jump from tree to tree, deep in thought.
,,They're too close. He and his stupid questions… He starts to suspect. From now on I need to be more careful and not talk to him anymore" She thought sighing.
She heard some noise and went in the direction of the sound and found the others stuck in mud to their necks except for Takuya and Tommy who were missing.
"What happened to you?" She said jumping from the tree.
'It matters?" Said Koji looking away. "Can you help us?"
"I'll try." She said looking around.
She found some kind of rope that she threw it over a branch above the mud pool. She jumped on it upside down holding on the rope only with her legs. She catched Bokomon and Neemon's hands, pulling them up and throwing them on the solid ground by the pool. After them, she catched Zoe doing the same, then came Koji and the last came JP. Suddenly, she felt the rope breaking. She jumped a bit throwing her shoes off and catching the remaining stable rope with her toes and pulled JP out fast and threw him and herself on the ground by the others.
"That was-" started JP getting up.
"Amazing! How did you do that? "Said Zoe amazed. "It looked like one of those acrobats at the circus."
"Well, I kinda worked at one." She said putting her shoes back on.
"You're still working there?"
"No. Let's go. Takuya and Tommy might need some help." She said walking on.
They came out of the forest just in time to see BurningGreymon covered in flames and whacked Gigasmon, who was standing on a pillar that was in the middle of a huge hole in the ground.
He was then showing his Fractal Code along with his Beast Spirit, human Spirit and the Spirits of Ice and Wind. BurningGreymon flew over and grabbed the Beast Spirit, then took the Spirit of Ice.
"Here you go, buddy, got a little present for ya!" He yelled as he threw the white ball at Tommy who caught his Spirit.
"Hey, my Spirit! Yeah! This is better than birthdays and Christmas combined." He cheered as we all laughed.
"And now to get Zoe's Spirit." BurningGreymon said but Grumblemon woke up.
"Me leave while behind!" The Warrior of Earth said as he dug himself away, escaping with the Spirit of Wind once again.
"No! He still has my Spirit." Zoe cried.
"It seems you'll have to wait a bit more to get your spirit…" Said Nayna.
"It seems so…" Said Zoe sullen.
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