Disclaimer: Nope, I still don't own it! Sorry!

Alright, so here's chapter 5...it's kinda short, so sorry about that. The next six chapters or so are gonna be short too...ifI can I'll do my best to make them a little longer than this one!

This chapter and the next six are gonna be kinda disjointed and seperated, cuz (small spoiler here!) I seperated the Chosen Children into groups, so there's a chapter for each group.

Thanks for all the reviews, guys! Please keep them coming!I wanna know how I'm doing!

Chapter 5:

"Wh-where am I?" Yukira said, her eyes slowly fluttering open. She was lying on the ground, cold and shaking, drenched in icy sweat. She sat up abruptly, causing her head to spin, and looked around. She saw nothing that she recognized.

Am I…dead? She thought. No, I can't be…can I? I can feel my pulse…I think…

"Yukira?" said a whispered voice behind her. She turned to see Miyako, lying on the ground, hardly able to move. Yukira crawled over to her and laid a gentle hand on her shoulder.

"Are you alright, Miyako?" she said. Miyako nodded.

"Yeah, I'm okay," she replied, struggling to sit up. "Where are we?"

"I have no idea," Yukira replied. "But the Digimon aren't with us…"

"And I'm no longer Lowemon," said another voice. They turned to see Kouichi, covered in dust, standing over them. "Whatever happened, we don't have any power anymore, and…"

"Don't say that," said Yukira, hanging her head. "We can't just give up…not yet!"

"The kid's right, Yukira," Miyako said. "We can't do anything! We haven't got any power here, wherever we are, and look…" She held out her D-3. "It's not glowing anymore. We can't do anything but wait this out till we come out of it."

"How can you say that!" Yukira cried, pushing herself to her knees. "We can't just give up, Miyako! If we do, we're bound to lose this battle!"

"Can't you see that we already have!" Miyako cried back, throwing a punch at Yukira, which missed her face by mere inches. "The battle's over Yukira, and we lost it! It's time to just give up!"

"It's never time to give up!" Yukira screamed back at her, slapping her as hard as she could. Miyako slumped over on the ground, her eyes welling with tears and her cheek stinging where Yukira had hit her.

"It's never time to give up!" Yukira repeated. "Miyako, if we give up now, we'll have lost everything that we worked so hard to preserve! We'll have lost everything that we hold dear…our world, the Digital World, everything will be gone! We have to keep fighting, no matter how bad it gets, all the way to the very end! We've always fought to the last of our strength, so why should this time be any different!"

"Because this time, we've actually been beaten!" Miyako screamed, throwing herself at Yukira. She managed to pin Yukira to the ground and punched her square in the jaw. Yukira took the hit and rolled herself on top of Miyako, pinning her arms down; this didn't' stop Miyako from using her legs. She kicked Yukira off of her and launched herself at her again, crashing into the ground as Yukira dodged her attack. She recovered quickly, however, and dove at Yukira again, pushing her to the ground. Yukira punched her hard in the shoulder, which sent Miyako flying through the air. Yukira stood and, just as she was about to dive on Miyako again, she was stopped by Kouichi.

"Stop it, both of you!" he said sternly. "There's no need to fight each other when there are bigger problems to deal with!"

"Can it, kid," said Miyako. "This is between me and Yukira, and no one else!"

"Look, we're supposed to be a team! If we don't work together, we're never going to beat OkamiMyotismon! I know that we hardly even know each other," he said, holding out a hand for Miyako and helping her to her feet. "But we have to stick together no matter what if we're going to defeat this guy!"

"We've already lost, kid! Can't you see that?"

"Don't say that," Yukira said, tears now welling in her eyes. She dropped to her knees. "Don't say that. We can't give up, we can't lose hope! If we don't believe in ourselves, we'll never win, and both our world and the Digital World will be lost to eternal darkness! I'm not going to let that happen!" She pounded her fist into the ground, making her knuckles crack. "I'm not going to give up!"

A sudden light burst forth from Yukira's D-3, and from herself as well. It seemed as though she was glowing, a bright purple light emanating from her chest. She looked at her hands; on them was the Crest of Perseverance, glowing purple like her D-3. She stared wide eyed at this spectacle, half terrified and half amazed. Hadn't her crest been destroyed four years ago by Apocalymon?

"What the…?" Miyako breathed, barely able to move. She stared at Yukira, who stood up, her hands engulfed in what looked like…lightning!

"What the hell is going on!" Yukira cried. Kouichi and Miyako stared at her, wide eyed. Suddenly, Kouichi's detector began to glow with the same purple light.

"Maybe…Yukira, your crest! It's because you refused to…damn it! Yukira, I'm really sorry…" Miyako said, tears filling her eyes. "I never should've…"

"It's okay," Yukira said, her voice echoing, as if being carried by some unseen wind. The lightning around he hands was beginning to swirl around her body, her hair flipping every which way from the force of it. Miyako felt a single tear slide down her cheek, hitting her hand; she felt a sudden warmth that had not been there a moment ago. She looked down at her hands to see that they were glowing too, a bright sky blue as her hands were engulfed in what seemed to be wind.

"What is this!" Miyako cried, falling to her knees. The wind surrounded her, blowing her hair and clothes all different directions. It drew in the lightning from Yukira's body, even as the lightning drew in the wind from Miyako. Kouichi stared at the two of them in awe, his D-Tector glowing both purple and blue. Suddenly, and without any prompting, he Spirit Evolved into Lowemon. Miyako and Yukira both stopped glowing, except their hands, which displayed their crests; Miyako, on one hand had the Crest of Purity and on the other the Crest of Love, and Yukira, on both hands, the Crest of Perseverance.

"I feel…stronger…" Lowemon said. "Stronger than I've ever felt before!"

"So do I…" Miyako said. "What just happened?"

"I have no clue," Yukira replied faintly, theorizing. Maybe the power of their Crests held more than just a personality trait. Maybe the Crests held the power of the elements too, and with their crest so strong, they could now control these elements…

No it was a stupid idea…so stupid and so crazy, it just might have been true!