Hiya guys~!
So, I just read back the note I left at the beginning of this chapter last time, and I can't help but laugh.
'Apparently I can't write unless I've got a dealine.' Yeah, apparently I can't write with a deadline in place either!
Anyways, hope you all enjoy~
Disclaimer: I do not and will never own Digimon Frontier. I do own Sophia, her Spirits and any changes made that didn't happen in the anime.
The group of 6 had finally made it to the Trailmon station. In front of them, just one platform away, was a big red Trailmon.
"If you really wanna go home, all you have to do is hop on here." Neemon said, pointing at the Franken Trailmon.
"It's that easy?" JP asked no one specific.
"Neemon! A word please." Bokomon exclaimed, grabbing said digimon's pants. As he was dragging him away by the pants, no one could understand him anymore, cuz Neemon was babbling right through it.
"I'm taking that bad boy home. Huh?" JP looked at the others waiting for them to agree with him. "How 'bout it guys?" No one answered like he'd expected to. The only sound heard was Bokomon snapping Neemon's pants and Neemon saying 'Ouch' every time he did. JP looked down at Tommy. "You don't really wanna stay here do ya?" He then looked at Sophia and Koichi, who looked away from him, then Takuya and Zoe, getting the same reaction. He groaned. "Fine! You dweebs enjoy your little digital freak show." he jumped off the platform. "Come on Tommy let's blow this stupid pop stand."
But Tommy didn't follow. Zoe looked at him questioning. "Aren't you going with him?" she asked.
"I've decided I wanna stay here with you." Was Tommy's immediate answer.
This shocked pretty much everyone. "I thought you wanted to go home." Zoe asked, a little shocked.
"Not anymore." Tommy said. "I wanna stay and find my Spirit so I can be just like Takuya."
"Well, I'm flattered, but you should really go with JP." Takuya said, pushing the boy towards JP. "It's dangerous here, Tommy, and besides-"
He was cut off by Sophia grabbing his wrist. "If he wants to stay, let him stay." she said. "Besides, I'll be here to protect him, right Tommy?"
The small boy smiled. "Right!"
Takuya seemed to be thinking about it for a second. He looked Sophia straight in the eyes. "Alright then." he finally said. "Tommy can stay, but protect him well! Promise?"
"Promise!"
Takuya turned to Zoe. "How 'bout you, hah?" he asked the blond.
"I have a name." Zoe told him.
"Okay, Zoe." the goggle head said, seemingly bored by her. "So, are ya leaving?"
"Why? Would you miss me?" she asked him jokingly.
"I won't be responsible for your safety, like Sophia with Tommy, you know." Takuya said pointing from her to the duo he mentioned.
"Good one Romeo, I'll be fine."
"This oughta be fun." Takuya finally turned to Koichi. "So how 'bout you? Are you leaving?"
Koichi shook his head. "I'm staying here." he said. "I still have something to take care of here." he muttered quietly.
The group watched as the Trailmon left with JP. They all watched as the Trailmon disappeared in the fog, coughing.
'Alright, disappeared in the fog, soo... 3...2...1...'
Right on cue, the group could hear footsteps coming their way. Turning to where they heard it coming from, they saw JP with a sheepish smile on his face coming towards them.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Takuya asked confused.
Rubbing the back of his head, he sheepishly answered. "To be honest I have absolutely no idea." Which earned him multiple disbelieving stares. "Okay, Trailmon dumped me on the side of the rails when I told him where to go. So I guess I'm sticking with you guys."
"Well, I'm not gonna be responsible for your safety. You're on your own." Zoe said with one hand on her hip.
With that comment another argument between Takuya and Zoe began. Luckily this one didn't take long and soon the group was on the move. They were walking alongside the Trailmon tracks in silence. That is, until Bokomon decided to interrupt it.
The small digimon hopped next to Takuya. "I hope you're planning on helping us, mister Takuya." he said, pointing at the goggle-wearing boy. Though, Takuya seemed to pay little attention to him. "You're carrying with you the Spirit of Agunimon one of the Twelve Legendary Warriors. You can defeat the digimon turned evil by Cherubimon." He then went from calm to talking totally panicked. "Only you have the power to save us! You must help us repair the parts of the digital world that have been destroyed!"
"I think you need to calm down, buddy." Takuya said, not having changed the laid back position he was walking in.
"Agreed." Sophia said, jumping into their conversation.
"Me too." the others agreed.
This frustrated Bokomon only more. "My name is Bokomon and I am not your 'buddy'! I don't think you understand the severity of the situation here."
This just caused for Sophia to facepalm. "Of course not! We're just kids that landed in some strange world. How could we possibly know anything from this world?"
"Sorry, didn't need to yell." Bokomon apologized. "But we need the data of the Fractal Code, it's the only way to rebuild the digital world." he was begging on his knees right about now. "Please, help us get the Fractal Code back, save our world before it's too late. Will you?"
When Takuya still showed no interest, the digimon began yelling at Neemon to help him convince Takuya. Of course Neemon said something dumb which resulted in another pants-snapper.
Suddenly everyone's D-Tectors started acting up again. "Attention! Go to the Forest Terminal, immediately." the familiar voice of Ophanimon said from the device.
"What's a Forest Terminal?" Takuya wondered out loud, not taking his eyes of his D-Tector.
"What is a Forest Terminal?" The others asked, looking at each other as if expecting they knew.
"How am I supposed to find it?" Takuya asked his D-Tector. But before any answer could be given, the signal dropped. "Hey! Hey, answer me!" he demanded, pressing the buttons.
Bokomon pulled out his book, searching on info about the Forest Terminal. "The Forest Terminal is a station located deep within the rear of the Forest Kingdom." he explained. "We just follow the tracks. They'll take us right to it."
"How far do we have to follow them?" Neemon asked.
"Well let's see..." Bokomon looked through the book again. "It says... It says..." he growled in frustration. "All the way."
Takuya sighed. "You're full of useless information aren't you?"
They began walking again. As they walked for several minutes, some decided to try and make a conversation with each other. Being in the middle of the group, Sophia heard most of the conversations, not that she was paying much attention.
"What grade are you in anyway?" JP asked, angered by the goggle head.
"Sixth. Is that a problem?"
"Well I'm in seventh grade!"
"Like I'm supposed to care."
"Since when do grades matter so much?" Sophia asked, joining their conversation. "I'm in seventh too, but you don't hear me shouting it out loud like it's the most important thing in the world."
"Oh yeah? How old are you?" JP asked, still irritated and obviously wanting to be the oldest.
Sophia smirked. "Thirteen." Gotta love that early birthday.
With that JP fell silent, while Sophia went to Tommy and Zoe to hear what they were talking about.
"Tommy why didn't you go home?" the blond asked.
"I already told you. I wanna be like Takuya." Zoe looked at him confused. "To become a digimon so I won't be scared all the time."
Zoe looked at the little boy with a sad smile. "What about your mom and dad waiting at home?" she asked. "Bet they're worried."
Tommy gasped and looked at his feet at the thought. "I miss my parents, but when I come back I won't be afraid anymore, so they'll forgive me for being gone."
Then he ran towards Sophia, who lifted him up. He cried a little on her shoulder while they kept walking.
Zoe smiled at them. "You know, you really act like an older sister to him." she said. "Are you family?"
Sophia gave her a sad smile, shaking her head. Koichi noticed and laid a hand on her shoulder.
Getting the hint, she talked. "I have a little sister at home. She's ten." she explained. "I kinda miss her…" She let Tommy walk on his own again. "I just realized a few minutes ago that I kinda left her behind. Not that I want her here, mind you."
"Are you close?" Koichi couldn't help but ask.
Sophia snorted. "Hell no. We bicker constantly, but she's still my baby-sister. I worry about her and the last thing I want is for her to worry about me."
Koichi smiled at her. "I'm sure you'll see her again soon."
Smiling sadly she nodded, knowing 'soon' wouldn't be for a long time. Around night time, the group arrived at a cliff. The Trailmon tracks they followed was broken…just like the rest of the road. There was no way across the canyon.
"It sure is deep." Koichi said.
"Check it out guys." JP pointed to a track. "That trail leads to the bottom."
As they followed the trail with their eyes, they noticed a few lights at the bottom of the cliff.
"Looks like a village down there." Takuya said. "Maybe they can help us."
Everyone agreed and went down the trail. Sophia eyed her dark haired friend. He'd been very quiet aside from their talk. And even then he didn't talk until she had.
"Koichi?" she asked, getting his attention. "Is something wrong? Last time you were this quiet was with Koji."
"It's nothing." Koichi tried to reassure her. "I just… I missed my chance to tell Koji again today. I'm trying to think about how to tell him. A way that won't be too weird."
"To be fair, the whole situation is a little weird, so that might not work." Koichi groaned softly. "I'm not helping… Sorry." She bumped his arm with her elbow softly. "Hey, you'll get through it. Siblings always do."
Koichi wasn't fully reassured yet, but he was grateful for the girl's attempt to make him feel better.
When the group reached the end of the trail, the lights they'd seen earlier were gone. There wasn't even a trace of a village.
"That's weird." JP said. "I could've sworn those lights were coming from right here."
"Looked like that to me." Zoe agreed.
Meanwhile Tommy was looking at something completely different. He pulled Takuya's arm. "Takuya..."
He turned to where Tommy was looking at, quickly followed by the others. There engraved in the stone wall was a giant angel looking over at twelve weird looking symbols that were forming a circle.
"What is that?" Takuya asked.
"Kind of pretty." Zoe commented.
"I agree." Sophia said.
"Pretty… pretty they say." Bokomon sighed, grabbing his book once again. "These are the marks of the Twelve Legendary Warriors."
"The Twelve Legendary Warriors?" everyone asked in unison. They'd heard Bokomon mention it earlier that day, but they'd still been processing the whole Spirit evolution and village appearing out of nowhere to absorb the information.
"Hmm, I've never heard of them." Neemon said.
"Are you serious? The legend of the twelve warriors is the first thing we learn in digital world history." Bokomon argued.
After a short pause, Neemon spoke again. "I've must have been sick that day, but they sure are pretty."
"Told ya!" the girls exclaimed in unison.
While Bokomon told them the story of the Legendary Warriors, Sophia looked around the circle for any symbols she didn't recognize. Bokomon said twelve, but that couldn't be right. There should be ten.
But there they were.
音
花
Two unfamiliar symbols. Wonder what they mean... Sophia zoned back in when heard something interesting in Bokomon's story.
"It was then that ten brave warriors rose up against him. But the ten of them weren't enough to defeat him. As through a miracle, two other warriors came to their aid. After a fierce battle they defeated Lucemon, restoring the peace. The legend says that one day the Spirits of these first ten Ancient Warriors, as well as the two honorary warriors will rise again in times of trouble."
'Honorary warriors? What does that mean?'
Tommy's voice suddenly snapped her out of her thoughts. "I know that symbol." He said, pointing at the symbol at the very top of the circle.
"It's the same one we saw when Takuya Spirit Evolved into Agunimon." Zoe finished his thought.
"And that mark next to it was the one on Koji's shoulder when he turned into Lobomon." Tommy said, again pointing at a symbol.
"You're right." Koichi said.
"I wonder if I'll be next." Zoe wondered. "Oh, I hope my digimon's cute."
"I don't care about being cute, as long as I still look like a girl." Sophia joined in.
"I wanna be the like biggest, scariest digimon ever." Tommy exclaimed in excitement.
"Not likely shorty, I mean there's no way we'll become digimon." JP said, as if purposely trying to break the little kid's dreams.
"Shut it, JP!" Sophia snapped. "Don't crush his dream like that!"
JP ignored her and took some notes of the marks. Where the heck he got the notebook and pencil from, is still the question. Noticing the lights behind them, Takuya turned to see they were being watched.
"We've got… company." he said, fully turning around.
As the rest turned around, they finally noticed all the Candlemon jumping out of hiding. They were surrounded! An elderly Candlemon stepped…floated forward with two others at his side.
"Why have you humans come to our village? You're not welcome here." elderly Candlemon told them.
"We're on our way to the Forest Terminal." Takuya explained. "Sorry to disturb you, we're just passing through."
"You're melting my heart." The elder Candlemon said.
"Oohh! That's a no-no." the others said in choir.
"You mean to steal the ancient artifact from us, don't you?" elder Candlemon accused them. "Well you won't get away with it."
"He's right. The humans must be punished!" the Candlemon on his right exclaimed.
"Hey boss, you want us to wax them for ya?" the Candlemon on left asked.
"Wait!" Bokomon screamed. "Stop let me explain." He gestured to the 6 kids behind him. "These humans have come to help us save the digital world, not steal some artifacts."
Takuya looked down at the small digimon. "But we didn't know that at first." He said.
Sophia elbowed him lightly in the stomach. "Play along Takuya!" she whisper shouted.
Bokomon continued to talk to the Candlemon. "This may be hard to believe, but somehow this boy was infused with the Spirit of one of the Twelve Legendary Warriors; Agunimon."
"Did you say Agunimon?" the elder asked. "Impossible!"
"That's a hot one."
"What if it really is him?"
"He's pulling our wicks."
The Candlemon trio in front of the children turned around and started whispering things to each other. When they were done they turned back to the gang and their behavior had done a 180.
"Please forgive our rude behavior, my dear young friends." The elder said, floating towards them. "We are the Candlemon tribe. It is our sacred duty to protect the ancient artifacts." He explained. "So with of inherited the Spirit of a Legendary Warrior?"
"It was this one." Bokomon pointed at the google-head. "Takuya."
"Ah, well you certainly have a brave face, young man." Elder Candlemon said, about Takuya's scared face might I add. "On behave of all the Candlemon tribe, I'll bid you all welcome. Please be our guest."
'Heh… Be our guest. Who does he think he is? Lumière?'* Sophia thought, following the Candlemon.
The group followed the living candle to his tribe. There were several Candlemon dancing around a huge, flaming candlestick, which had the symbols of the warriors imprinted in it. They were dancing around the fire underneath it, holding huge clover four's in each hand.
"Looks like a giant birthday party." Commented Takuya.
Elder Candlemon told them it was a welcome ceremony just for them, and invited them to come closer to the flames. When they did get close to the fire, the Candlemon suddenly threw their clovers in the flames, causing green gas to emerge from it. They waved their arms to make the gases come even higher to the humans' faces.
"Oh, look at this it's Sleeping Clover." Bokomon said, holding up one of the unburnt clovers.
"Ah, well it's nappy time anyway." Neemon said sleepy, before both he and Bokomon fell to the ground, sound asleep.
The digimon duo were quickly joined in dreamland by Tommy, JP, Zoe and Koichi. Takuya and Sophia were struggling to stay awake.
'Come in, Soph. You've fought against sleep before. This is nothing.'
"So you claimed the Spirit of Agunimon, have you? Hah, we will shed some light on this!" elder Candlemon said.
While the elder was commanding his tribe something, Takuya was busy waking up the others. Zoe, JP and Koichi were the first ones to wake, even though it was just a little. They were having some trouble waking up Tommy, though.
"Hey, we can't stay here. Come on." Takuya said while shaking Tommy. Then he saw the river next to the village. "The river!"
Those who were awake, or at least half awake, understood his plan and ran towards it, Takuya carrying Tommy with him. They dove in on Takuya's command and were immediately fully awake. The goggle-head saw Tommy struggling to swim, so he grabbed him and emerged from the water.
"That was a great idea." he said sarcastically.
"I'll never complain about my alarm clock again." Zoe complained.
"Next time mom says she'll wake me with a bucket of water, I'm not complaining!" Sophia laughed. "Beats this!"
"Yeah, nice way to wake up." JP complained. "Did we really have to jump into the river?"
"Takuya said we had to dive in, or we'd get burned up." Tommy told him.
"That, and it was the fastest way to wake everyone up." Koichi added.
"Oh, did I disturb your beauty sleep?" Takuya asked sarcastically, possibly getting annoyed by all the complaining.
Sophia whacked the duo upside the head. "Argue when we're not IN DANGER!"
"We'll be save as long as we stay here. I'll bet fire digimon like Candlemon can't get near the water."
While Zoe did make a good point, none of them had counted on the Candlemon jumping on the wall! Seriously? How?!
"Guess again, human!" one of them yelled. "LAVA LOOGIE!"
They then spat a blast of flames at the swimming kids. Luckily they went under water in time. They proceeded to follow Takuya until they got near a small, hidden split in the cliff, where they got up again for air. As they were spying on the closer coming Candlemon tribe, Takuya came up with a plan.
"I'll distract them, then on my signal you guys make a break for it." He said, taking his first step in becoming the leader.
"Some plan." Zoe said full of sarcasm. What is it with people and sarcasm today?!
"Hang on a second 'mister president'. I don't remember making you leader of this stupid club." JP commented.
"If you think it's so stupid you should've gone home." Sophia muttered frowning at him. "Besides, it's the best plan we have right now. Unless you can come up with something better."
Zoe looked at her. "Well, we're all in this together, right? So any decision we make, we make as a team."
Another couple of minutes of arguing went by, until the Candlemon showed up. They dove beneath the water again until they'd passed, only to start again with the argument.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence." Takuya said- Again with the sarcasm?! C'mon!
"I'll go for your plan." Sophia sighed. "We gotta get out of here, and Takuya is the only one able to Spirit Evolve…" she looked at the other 4. "I don't know about you guys, but I don't feel like getting fried."
Koichi nodded. "I do agree that we need to get Tommy out of here, being the youngest and all." He looked at Takuya next. "But you shouldn't have to do this alone, what if it goes wrong?"
"Just get Tommy out of here, okay?"
Without another word, Takuya went down under again, leaving the team behind.
"Okay, let's move."
They started climbing, which was kinda hard at some points. But they still all managed to get to a sturdy ledge.
"I see one of them! GET HIM!"
The not-yet-Spirit holders froze, thinking of them was spotted. Could be. They were with a pretty big group after all. One of them could have easily been spotted. Looking back at the Candlemon, however, they noticed it wasn't them who were seen. It was Takuya! He was being chased by 2 Candlemon who were trying to hit him with their Lava Loogie, while he was trying to work out his D-Tector.
"Come on help me out here." Takuya said to the device, while still pressing buttons. The Candlemon spat out another Lava Loogie, which hit the ground behind Takuya. But the force of the explosion caused his D-Tector to slip from his hand. "Oh no! My D-Tector!"
"Takuya!"
He looked back at the approaching Candlemon. They were closing in fast. Instead of wasting time standing up and running, he jumped for the device. "Spirit Evolution time!" he shouted, holding the D-Tector in the air. It then glowed, and Takuya was covered in the streams of Fractal Code.
"EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION! …AGUNIMON!"
The few on the cliff ledge were cheering for him, because he finally managed to Spirit Evolve. That cheering was short lived though, because the next thing they know, he does something stupid… While the Candlemon were spitting out more Lava Loogie, he send a Pyro Punch their way, which only caused their flames to grow bigger.
"Fire attacks don't have effect on fire digimon!" Sophia shouted at him.
"He should've known that." Zoe muttered.
"Yeah that wasn't too bright." JP said, turning around. "Come on, I'd better get us out of this hole before we get waxed." He said, before slipping on ice, that wasn't there before. "I hate ice skating." He groaned.
"Be careful guys." Zoe said, also struggling to hold her balance.
"I'm trying." Tommy said.
"This ice wasn't here before, was it?" Koichi asked.
Sophia shook her head. "It wasn't. I sure didn't feel any ice when I climbed up here."
JP looked up from the ice, only to see a cave. "Wow, I didn't see that before."
"We should be save from those hotheads is there." Zoe said.
"In an ice cave?" Sophia asked. "They'll just melt the place."
Koichi looked at it in confusion. "An ice cave in a Candlemon village?" he wondered out loud. "Isn't that a bit odd?"
Sophia nodded in agreement. "It just screams 'There's something hidden in here!'."
Looking back at Agunimon, the gang saw he was not doing too well. He was surrounded by the spewed out flames of the Candlemon. How rookie level flames were hurting the Warrior of flame was still a question.
Tommy sure didn't like the way things were going. He grabbed his D-Tector and started pressing buttons. "Please, give me a Spirit." He tried. "I wanna help!"
"Give it up kid." JP told him. "The Spirits of a Legendary Warrior would never give their power to a pipsqueak like you."
"Yes, they will!" Sophia exclaimed, stopping herself before she said too much. "I'm sure the Legendary Warriors don't mind him being little. Why else would he get a D-Tector?" she asked him. "Besides, I haven't seen you try yet. Why would a Legendary Warrior give their power to someone who just gives up and doesn't try a thing?"
Her words seemed to dig into his skull. Next thing he was doing, was trying to get a Spirit. And not only him, but the others were pressing buttons as well.
'Can't seem like the odd one out.' Sophia thought as she grabbed her own D-Tector and played along.
"PARAFIN PARALYZER!" One of the Candlemon spun around, shooting hot wax everywhere at Agunimon's body.
"Man, that stuff hurts!" he exclaimed, followed by pained screaming. He was almost completely covered in wax, rendering him unable to move.
"Ah! Agunimon hang on!" Before an of the older kids could stop him, he was sliding down the hill. "Hang on Takuya! I'm coming!"
"Tommy, no!"
"Stop kid!"
"That's dangerous!"
"Do your best down there…"
He jumped in the river, took off his hat, filled it with water and threw it at the Candlemon. "Light out, you meanies." He said between throwing. "I won't be just a little kid in the way EVER AGAIN." Tommy yelled.
Just seconds after he yelled that, the floor of the ice cavern burst open, catching everyone by surprise. Out of it came a ball of light with a Spirit inside.
"Mamma mia!" Zoe gasped.
"A Spirit!" Sophia exclaimed.
The Spirit flew towards Tommy, who was still throwing water, stopping and hovering right in front of him, while the river around him turned into ice.
"It's a Spirit!" he exclaimed. He quickly grabbed his D-Tector and pointed it at the Spirit. "Spirit, come to me."
"It is time."
The next moment, Tommy had completely disappeared under the Fractal Code.
"EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION! …KUMAMON!"
When it left, the familiar, or unfamiliar depending on who you ask, figure of Kumamon stood there in all his icy cuteness.
Zoe gasped at the sight. "That's amazing."
Koichi nodded. "I agree."
"That's impossible!" JP whined.
"It is so possible!" Sophia exclaimed. "Kick their butts, Tommy!"
"It's Kumamon the Legendary Warrior of ice." Bokomon said, apparently loud enough for the children on the ledge to still hear it.
"He's full of useless information…" Sophia muttered. "Hey, genius! There's ice everywhere! We could've figured out he's the warrior of ice on our own!" she yelled at Bokomon, who started throwing a fit afterwards.
"Time to teach you bullies a lesson!" Kumamon said to the Candlemon. "CRYSTAL FREEZE!"
His attack hit one of the Candlemon, causing ice to creep up and freezing him solid.
"Hey there, teddy bear." The other Candlemon growled. "You want a playmate? Hatcha!"
Fire was suddenly spewing from his mouth as he spun around. Where he stood was now a flaming, spinning tower. After a bit, data streams were covering the top of the tower, where presumably Candlemon was. As soon as those streams disappeared, the flames and Candlemon were replaced by Wizardmon.
"CRYSTAL FREEZE!"
Kumamon tried freezing the opponent again, but with no luck this time. Wizardmon was too fast and jumped, kicking Kumamon out of the way before landing. "Take off, teddy!"
"KUMAMON!" Agunimon yelled, worried for his comrade.
But Wizardmon just laughed at him. "Looks like the great Agunimon has a little problem with waxy build up. How 'bout a little magical game? Tatahah~"
With that said, Wizardmon disappeared. Agunimon finally broke free from his waxy prison and stared searching for the digimon. Lightning suddenly appeared seemingly out of nowhere, almost hitting Agunimon, hadn't he dodged them. Then Wizardmon reappeared again in front of Agunimon.
"Not bad, Legendary Warrior, but I've got plenty up my sleeve!" he said, before multiple Wizardmon popped up around him. "Too bad, you're going to lose, no matter which Wizardmon you choose."
"Which is the real Wizardmon?" JP asked in a panicky voice.
"They all look the same to me." Zoe said.
"I can't find any differences." Koichi said.
Then Wizardmon spoke up again. "Agunimon. Don't you see? All these Wizardmon are me. We all look real, because we are. Just try to run, you won't get far!"
Sophia raised an eyebrow. "How the hell is he rhyming that so fast?"
"Every warrior must fall. Your time is up! ELECTRO SQUALL!"
All Wizardmon fired their attack at the same time at the same point. Agunimon swiftly jumped out of the way, making the attacks collide. The attacks caused enough light to reveal a shadow behind one of the Wizardmon, which Kumamon noticed.
"Agunimon! Look down here!" he called out. "Only one of them has a shadow!"
Agunimon thanked the smaller warrior. "Game's over!" he yelled out, kneeing the Wizardmon with his fire spewing knee-armor. The digimon fell to the ground, turned black and had his Fractal Code revealed. "I never did believe in magic." Agunimon said, grabbing the D-Tector. "Here's a trick for ya! FRACTAL CODE DIGITIZE!"
After scanning him, he turned back into a Candlemon. The group on the ledge cheered for the duo.
"Yeah! Molto bene!" Zoe cheered in her native language.
"Te gek!" Sophia exclaimed in Dutch.
"Yeah what they said!" JP exclaimed. "Whatever it meant…"
"Molto bene means very good." Zoe explained.
"Te gek means awesome." Sophia explained. "Though, if you want to go literal, it also means 'too crazy', but I meant awesome."
While Agunimon helped Kumamon up, the rest of the group slid down the mountain and headed toward them. Kumamon thanked Agunimon for helping him up.
"No, thank you." Agunimon replied. "You're one brave little bear."
While the guys were engulfed in Fractal Code the other future warriors arrived at their side. They complimented the boys, and told Takuya off for making such a risky bad move. A couple of Candlemon, including the elder one, came toward them.
"I'm afraid I owe you all an apology." Elder Candlemon told them. "The truth is we thought you might possess the Spirits of the Legendary Warriors, but we still had to make sure. I'm sorry we didn't trust you."
"So then all of this has been a test?" Tommy asked.
"Well that pretty much stinks." Takuya said, angered by that statement, just like the others. "You're lucky I don't pinch your lights out for that!"
Elder Candlemon laughed nervously. "I'm so sorry. You have every right to be angry."
Takuya accidentally pressed a button on the D-Tector he still had in his hand for…some reason. "Fractal Code Render." Ophanimon's voice said through it.
Out of the device flowed a data stream. It went upwards, repairing the bridge going over the canyon.
"Wizardmon held within him the Fractal Code for the bridge, with protected our village from evil digimon." Elder Candlemon explained to them. He turned to Takuya. "Young Takuya for many years no one has crossed this canyon, but you have my official permission to use this bridge. Follow the tracks and they will lead you to the Forest Terminal, but it is a perilous journey."
That seemed to make JP nervous. "Maybe we should think about this guys. There's still time to go home."
'Whatever perilous means… It must be something like 'dangerous' or something.'
Zoe just giggled at JP's comment. "You're just jealous because Tommy found his inner digimon and you haven't yet."
"Why would I even care about that? Shorty can have it." JP said.
He was about to say something else, but Sophia cut him off before he could say something. "If you don't care, why did you try to get a Spirit earlier~?"
He blushed in embarrassment while the girls gave each other a high five. Probably a high five for teasing the poor plump boy. Their attention was back to the bridge when Takuya spoke up again.
"Hey, somebody else just beat us across the bridge." He said.
Everyone looked up in time to see a Trailmon pass by. They were curious how it got there so fast. The rails were repaired just a few seconds ago.
There was also a twinge of jealousy at the people possibly riding it. They would have to go ahead on foot while those people were riding in comfort.
Well, better get going then. The farther away from the killer candles the better.
*If you didn't get this reference, you must've had a bad Disneyless childhood and have to go watch Beauty and the Beast right away!
Thanks for reading.