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Anyway, I do not own digimon frontier nor any of its characters and plot. I only own my Kiari and her spirit evolutions, which will be mentioned in later chapters.
Chapter 28 More Humans in the Digital World
The digidestined and their digimon companions got off the pink Trailmon when they reached the station in a city that was mostly made out of steel, hence the name Steel Town. After thanking the Trailmon, they left the station and started walking down the only path that didn't have any steel. They stopped when they saw something heading their way until it stopped in front of them. The digimon turned out to be a half-horsed digimon called Sagittarimon.
"Stop right there humans! While I have nothing against you personally, I must demand that you hand over all of your obsessions." This left some of the digidestined confused which made Sagittarimon realize his mistake. "No wait! I mean your possessions! I should've just said stop like I usually do. I never should have bought that Thesaurus."
"So you have nothing to do then to rob us?"
"It does kinda look like it, Tommy."
"That's right! Now if you don't want to get hurt, then hand over your obsessions!"
"Don't you mean our possessions?"
"Yeah. That's what I just said, right?"
"No." Kiari walked a few steps ahead of everyone else and towards Sagittarimon. "You said obsessions, not possessions."
"Why you! No one asked you!"
"No need to get all upset, big guy. She was just correcting you. Now can you just give us a sec?" Takuya grabbed Kiari's arm before walking back to huddle with the rest of the group. "You didn't really have to try to correct him, Kiari."
"Sorry."
"That's okay. At least we know there's no way this guy is working for the Royal Knights."
"Let's just get rid of him and be on our way." Everyone else agreed to Koji's idea as they all looked at Sagittarimon. "I'm afraid we're going to have to say no to that. We really don't have time for this. So why don't you just leave before you get hurt."
"Is that so? Trust me. You're going to be the ones who are going to get hurt."
"Stop!"
The digidestined and their digimon companions looked up towards the top of the dirt wall surrounding the pathway and saw five human kids standing at the top. The other digidestined were confused since there weren't supposed to be other kids in the Digital World besides them, but Kiari was surprised since among the five kids stood her younger brother Kyo. However, she wasn't the only one since Tommy recognized the two old boys of the small group.
"Hey you! Are you the digimon who's been going around stealing from everybody?"
"So what if I am? What are you puny little kids going to do about it? I can take you down easily, even if you teamed up with these guys here."
"Yeah, but we're not the one's you should be worrying about." After the oldest boy said that, an angel digimon flew up from behind the small group. "Go get him, Angemon!"
Angemon started flying down towards Sagittarimon as the said digimon tried to stop him with his Judgment Arrow but missed. Once Angemon was standing in front of Sagittarimon, he used his staff to knock the archery bow out of Sagittarimon's hand before pointing the end of his staff close to his face. Seeing that he had no way to defend himself, Sagittarimon ran off like a coward. Kyo and the four other kids started walking down a path to the bottom until Kyo saw Kiari and ran the rest of the way down.
"Kiari!" Kiari went down on her knees before Kyo jumped right into her waiting arms. "I can't believe you're here! I thought you might've went back with the other kids." Kyo let go of Kiari and back up a bit to look at rest of the digidestined. "I see that you've made some new friends. I thought you said that you were too busy to have friends."
"Never mind that, Kyo. Why don't introduce me to your new friends."
"I will if you introduce yours."
"Okay." Kiari stood up before standing next to Keoni to face her friends. "Guys, this is my little brother Kyo. Kyo, these are my new friends. First we have Takuya, then Zoey, then J.P., then Tommy, Bokomon, Neemon, Patamon, Koji, and Kou—."
"Kouichi!" Kyo run up to Kouichi as everyone else look at him with confused looks on their faces. "It's been a long time! How come you stopped going to the park?"
"Um, Kyo, how do you know Kouichi?"
"You don't remember, Kiari? The three of us used to play at the park near our house."
"Now that you mention it," Kiari looked up at Kouichi was holding his chin with his index finger and thumb. "I do remember seeing a girl and her brother a few years ago. I remember playing with her brother."
"That's right. You and I played together and talked about a lot of things. I even remember telling me that you had a crush on Kiari."
"WHAT?!" Everyone had surprised looks on their face, mostly Kouichi as he tried to hide the redness of embarrassment on his cheeks. "YOU'RE KIDDING!"
"Nope. And Kiari had a crush on him too."
"WHAT?!"
"It's true. That's why they were always acting so shy around each other and—Umph"
Kiari and Kouichi quickly covered Kyo's mouth before the said boy could say anymore embarrassing stuff about them. They were both really embarrassed by how red their faces were. They looked at the rest of the group and saw by the curious looks on their faces, even Angemon and the other four kids were curious. After a while, they all decided to head up to Steel Town and exchange some explanations inside one of the buildings.
"So the five of you have been in the Digital World this whole time? Did you guys come here on the trains too?"
"Yup. We got on the trains like the other kids did and ended up at the Forest Terminal. We talked to some of the kids there and met Teruo, Kyo, and Chiaki. Then some chick told us that we had to go back home, but we decided to stick around and find out what happens next. It wasn't long after that we met Angemon. We've been traveling together ever since, fighting injustice, going on adventures, and all that."
"It's just like T.V. except that we're in it. Sure it's been dangerous, but we have Angemon with us."
"Even though. It's too dangerous for the five of you to be here. You should've went back home when Ophanimon told you to."
"Ophanimon? Is she the one who's been sending us those e-mails on our cell phones?"
"We used get those messages all the time when we first got here." Chiaki took out her cell phone from her pocket and checked if she had any new mail but didn't receive any. "But we haven't received any for a while now."
"Wait. Your cell phones? What happened to your detectors? Did they get stolen or something?
"Um, what's a detector?" The digidestined were surprised that the other kids didn't know about detectors until Katsuharu had a serious look on his face. "Alright, it's our turn to ask questions now. Like what are you guys doing here?"
"Actually we're here trying to restore peace to the Digital World."
"World peace? Sounds kinda groovy, don't you think? How are you guys going to save the entire Digital World by yourselves? Just look at your digimon."
"Yeah! They couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag! The most that those digimon could do for the Digital World is to volunteer to pick up the trash."
Katsuharu, Teppei, Chiaki, Teruo, and Kyo started to laugh, but Kyo stopped when he noticed the disappointed Kiari was giving him. Takuya was the first to speak up and started mentioning about them having the spirits of the legendary warriors, but stopped when Kiari placed a hand on his shoulder. He knew by the look on Kiari's face that he shouldn't really mention to the five other kids about the legendary spirits.
"Listen! You should go home!" The other digidestined looked at Kouichi with surprised looks since they haven't heard him speak up like that since they met him. "You're just going to get hurt if you stay here! You don't even know what you're doing. You've been lucky so far, but what happens if you run into something that you won't be able to handle."
'Like the Royal Knights. Angemon won't be able to stand a chance against them.' Kiari looked at Kyo with a worried look on her face, but was unnoticed by the said boy. 'I don't want him or his friends to get hurt.' Kiari walked into the next room and looked out the window. 'I don't think Kyo would go back unless I go with him. But I can't leave my friends and the Digital World until peace is restored.'
"Is something bothering you, princess?" Kiari looked up to see Angemon fly down until he was hovering in front of the window. "I knew who you were the moment I saw you. I am honored to be in your presence, princess. If there is something you want to talk about, then I am here to listen."
"Just Kiari is fine. You don't have to keep calling me princess. First of all, I'd like to thank you for protecting my brother and his friends during their stay here. But I want you to make sure that they leave they leave the Digital World. I'm worried that they'll get hurt if they stay any longer."
"I am sorry, Lady Kiari. But I'm afraid I cannot. I tried to convince them to leave, but they refused and demanded that they stay here in the Digital World. It is out of my hands. I hope you understand."
"I do. Just promise that you will protect them no matter what. You're the only one who can keep them safe. So please keep them safe, Angemon."
"I will protect them with my life."
"Thank you, Angemon." Kiari looked over Angemon's shoulder and saw an arrow flying towards him. "Look out!" Angemon quickly turned around and used his Hand of Fate to destroy the arrow. "Who shot that arrow?" Kiari and Angemon looked towards where the arrow was shot from and saw Sagittarimon, but he wasn't alone. "What digimon are those?" She looked down and saw Kyo with Takuya, Koji, Kouichi, and their digimon companions run out of the building. "Angemon, I need you carry me down to my friends. I don't want brother to know that I'm the digital princess."
"As you wish."
Angemon caught Kiari when she jumped out the window and flew down and placed her next to Kouichi. Katsuharu, Teppei, and Tommy ran out of the building just as J.P., Zoey, Chiaki, and Teruo also showed up. Takuya and Katsuharu argued a bit until Angemon flew into battle and started fighting the Centarumon. Everyone else was too busy watching Angemon that they didn't notice the second group of Centarumon charging from the side. Katsuharu, Teppei, and Tommy started from the Centarumon until one of the Centarumon shot its Solar Ray and caused Teppei to fall. Even though his friend was reaching out for his help, Katsuharu just stood there in fear as another Solar Ray was shot. Right when the attack was about to reach Teppei, Tommy grabbed him and pulled him out of the way. Unfortunately, the Solar Ray attack was now heading towards Katsuharu. Kyo quickly ran to stand in front of Katsuharu and held out his arms.
"Kyo!" Kiari ran to stand of Kyo and took out her detector and tried to spirit-evolve but couldn't. "What? Why can't I spirit-evolve?" She held out her arm and tried to summon a barrier but couldn't. "I can't even make a barrier. What's wrong with me?"
"Look out, Kiari!" Tommy took out his detector and beast-spirit-evolved into Korikakumon before standing in front of Kiari and blocking the Solar Ray attack. "Get the others to safety, Kiari. I'll handle the Centarumon."
"Okay."
Kiari picked up Kyo before she, Katsuharu, and Teppei started running towards the others. Sagittarimon noticed them and shot his Judgment Arrow towards them. Kouichi saw Kiari, Katsuharu, and Teppei running and saw the arrow heading towards them. He spirit-evolved into Lowemon and used his shield to block Sagittarimon's Judgment Arrow. Once Kiari, Katsuharu, and Teppei reached the others Lowemon ran up to Kiari.
"Why didn't you spirit-evolve, Kiari?"
"I tried, but for some reason I can't."
"What about your pow—" Seeing Kiari shake her head, Lowemon understood that she didn't want him to mention Angelicmon's abilities. "We'll handle the Centarumon. Make sure the other kids are safe."
The other digidestined spirit-evolved and defeated the Centarumon while Angemon dealt with Sagittarimon by punching and sending him flying out of town. Seeing that they were no match for the legendary warriors and Angemon, the Centarumon ran straight out of the town. Kiari put Kyo down so he can join his group while Kiari went to join hers. Katsuharu apologized to Tommy for calling him a coward and asked for them to be friends, which Tommy accepted. Katsuharu and his group decided to leave the Digital World and go back home.
"Are you going to go back with us, Kiari?"
"I'm sorry, Kyo. But I have to stay here with friends and help them restore peace to the Digital World." Seeing the tears forming in Kyo's eyes, Kiari walked up to him and knelt down in front of him. "I promise that I'll return home when all of this is over. You're going to have to be strong and take care of Aunt Kari, okay?"
"Okay." Keoni wiped the tears in his eyes and hugged Kiari who hugged him back. "Be safe, Kiari."
"I will." Kiari let go of Keoni before standing up. "As long as I have my friends with me, nothing will stand in our way."
"Right." Kyo walked over to Kouichi and looked up at him. "Kouichi, when are you going to tell Kiari you like her?"
"Kyo!" Kyo ran back to his group and had a sheepish look on his face. "You're embarrassing me and Kouichi in front of our friends!"
At that time, a strong gust of wind blew at them as everyone looked up with shocked to see the Royal Knights. Before anyone could stop him, Angemon flew up and tried to attack the Royal Knights but lost in one move. Crusadermon used her Laser Lattice to capture Katsuharu and his group before Dynasmon swooped down and grabbed them. Tommy quickly ran and grabbed the net and hung on as Dynasmon carried them away as he flew towards the next area. The digidestined started running after Dynasmon until Crusadermon held them back with her Scarlet Tempest before flying after Dynasmon.
