Hiya guys~

Sorry for the wait. I know I usually upload a new chapter on the last day of the month or the first of the new month, but I just couldn't find the motivation to do that this time.

I've just been stuck in the procrastination corner for like...3 weeks and I don't know how to get out. 'Just keep writing' doesn't work for me, that's for sure. And honestly I'm feeling kind of bad about it. If anyone has any tips about procrastinating, please LET ME KNOW!

Anyways, hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: Yeah I own Digimon...in a dream...that I had like...2 weeks ago. *yawn* I need more sleep... I do however own Sophia, Sonamon, her Beast Spirit, any and all changes that stray from the canon and any characters that aren't mentioned on the wiki page.

"Isn't it nice to have a moment of peace and quiet?" Bokomon voiced his thoughts out loud.

It was true though. It was quite nice to take a moment to just sit around. And in such a beautiful part of the forest too. Quiet and peaceful. Just what they needed after such a bad series of battles. Especially the one thy had earlier that day. That one was brutal.

"Let's have some fun and play charades." Neemon broke the silence. Well, actually Bokomon did, but he broke it more.

Bokomon rolled his eyes at him. "I thought you said fun."

Neemon, however, ignored this. "I've always wanted to try that thing where I'm trapped in an imaginary box." He said as he started playing with a nearby Tanemon.

"Oh, if only the box were real." the white digimon sighed.

"There goes our moment of peace..." Sophia sighed.

Tommy had been sitting there stuck in thoughts for a while now. They finally came out now. "Oh man... I really messed up."

It came a bit out of the blue, and it confused Koji and Koichi.

"What do you mean, Tommy?" Koichi asked gently.

Tommy raised his head from the ground a little to look at the older boy. Of course... He hadn't been there. "It's because of me that Zoe lost her Spirit." the younger boy told him. "I'm really sorry."

"It's okay, Tommy." Zoe tried to console the boy. "What happened wasn't your fault."

"The only one to blame is Gigasmon." Sophia added her own thoughts.

JP saw the broken look on Zoe's face, and he didn't like it. "Well, the next time I see that guy, I'll get your Spirit back. Even if I have to do it by myself." He said, acting as brave as he could. No one was going to mess with his girl's feelings!

"Why would you wanna do something like that?" Neemon asked him.

Sophia snorted. "To score date point with Zoe." JP glared at her, clearly not finding the humor in that joke.

"Based on your last encounter, I don't think that would be very wise." Bokomon criticized his plan.

"So what?!" JP slammed his fist into the ground right next to Bokomon, which send the small digimon falling over. "It sure beats sitting around here doing nothing!" Debatable. "She needs me help!"

"What are we? Chopped liver?" Sophia questioned.

"You have a one track mind, buddy." Takuya remarked. He stood up and looked JP straight in the eye. "We can't just run around and fight. We have to get to the Forest Terminal."

"So what? Then we'll just let him win?" JP stood up too, to be on more equal height with Takuya, rather then being looked down upon. "I can't just sit back and let Grumblemon run around with Zoe's Spirit."

"It's okay, JP." Though it really wasn't. All this talk about Zoe's Spirit only made the girl miss Kazemon more. She took out her D-Tector to see the static screen. How badly she wanted to see Kazemon's face there, staring back at her. 'You never know how much you'll miss something till it's gone.'

A few close by Tanemon ran up to the girl, sensing her sadness, and tried to cheer her up. But it really didn't work.

"No, it's really not okay, Zoe." JP broke her train of thought. "The Spirit of wind is yours, and you were destined to find it. So we're gonna get it back for you."

That was...oddly wise coming from JP. If this is how he is when he's not thinking about food-

"Nice sentiment." Koji spoke up. "But we have more important things to do than fight a battle we can't win." Yikes...

"That was unnecessa-"

"What is your problem, Koji?!" JP cut Koichi off mid-sentence. "You'd be going crazy if your Spirit was stolen." Koji's only response was a glare. JP took this as his cue to go on and keep mocking the dark haired boy. "But, hey. I understand if you're scared. Even the great Koji has no chance against Grumblemon."

"What?!" Koji snapped.

JP continued though. "Who cares if you have your Beast Spirit? You can't even control it!

"Hey, stop it!" "Please, calm down." "Knock it off, JP." Tommy, Koichi and Takuya tried to calm the situation down, unsuccessfully.

JP looked away from the warriors in front of him. "I guess I'm the only one who wants to help Zoe!"

"JP, stop it!" Sophia snapped, in her panic state again. "Of course we want to help, but you know we can't beat Grumblemon when he's got his Beast Spirit!"

"It sure doesn't sound like you want to help!" JP yelled at her. "Is this how you always treat your friends? Not helping in time of need? No wonder they treated you just as badly!"

*SLAP*

The sound of flesh meeting flesh echoed through the forest. JP slowly traced the sore spot where a red hand print was making itself known, while Sophia stared at the ground. Her hand still outstretched, while her hair covered her eyes.

"You..." Her voice sounded cold. "You know nothing about me!" she screamed, looking up and revealing the tears in her eyes. "Don't you dare pretend you know anything about me!"

After her tantrum, she ran off into the forest, leaving a stunned group of kids behind. The one who snapped out of it first was Zoe, who ran after the brunette quickly. She found her not too far away, but not close enough to be seen or heard, crying underneath a tree. And stripping bark from a twig for...some reason*.

The blonde sat down next to her. "Hey, are you okay?" Sophia shook her head, gripping the twig harder. "Don't listen to JP. You said it yourself, he knows nothing."

"Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt." Sophia said in a squeaky voice.

Zoe gave her a sad smile, and leaned in to give her a sort of half hug. It was awkward, since they were still pretty unfamiliar with each other, but it helped a little.

"It wasn't because I treated others badly... They bullied me because I was different." Sophia said, a little out of the blue, but Zoe deserved to know. "I have autism, so I can't help it... Heck I don't even realize I'm acting different until hours later." Zoe quietly listened to her talking, feeling like this was something she had to let out. "Heh, and that guy thinks I treated friends badly? Heh... What friends? I don't have friends."

"You have us." Zoe told her. "Or me, at least." Sophia looked at her with a stare of disbelieve. "Maybe we're both a bit rusty when it comes to friendship, but I'm sure we can learn. Right?"

For a moment they just looked at each other in silence. Zoe waiting for an answer, and Sophia unsure if this was real. Zoe seemed truthful. Seeing her doubt, Zoe gave the older girl a kind smile. She really means this. Otherwise why would she come running after her?

Finally, Sophia smiled too. "Thanks Zoe."

The blonde girl smiled and stood up, holding out her hand to Sophia. "Let's go back. I'm sure the others are waiting for us."

Sophia nodded as she took the hand. "Heh... You lead, I kinda ran blind."

When they got back there was just complete awkward silence. JP refused to look at anyone except Zoe, who in turn refused to look at him. Everyone else averted their eyes from the girls and JP as well. It was just...awkward.

Until Bokomon coughed. "I think it's time to do something more productive then stand here and argue." Even though they weren't arguing anymore, they could see his point. "My friends, I believe the time has finally come."

"Has come for what?" "What do you mean?" JP and Zoe asked the gnome digimon.

"Time to show you the path of wisdom." Bokomon said, kind of cryptically, which confused the humans. But at least it caught their attention. "Wisdom is a path which is not easily walked. You must think about every choice, consider every option and know where each step will lead." Immediately after uttering that last part, he lost footing and fell on the ground, face first. "It seems that wisdom has landed in a mud puddle."

JP crossed his arms, clearly not impressed by what Bokomon was talking about. "So what's your 'wise solution'?"

"Fortune telling." Bokomon told him, like it was the most obvious thing ever.

"Fortune telling?"

What good would fortune telling do them? Help them decide what to do? They knew what they had to do. Go to the Forest Terminal. ...But then again, they also needed to find their Beast Spirits. A-and get back Zoe's Spirit.

On one hand, the message to go to the Forest Terminal sounded urgent and should be their main goal, but on the other hand...what if they ran into Grumblemon on the way? Or any of the other possibly evil warriors. Did they have their Beast Spirits? Assuming they did, the gang would need their Beast Spirits to fight them.

Maybe a little fortune telling wouldn't hurt. So it was decided. Bokomon led the way to Fortuneteller Village, talking about some digimon named Shamanmon. Presumably the gang was going to pay that digimon a visit.

When the warriors finally arrived, it was clear to see where the town got its name from. Everywhere you looked were fortuneteller tents, which looked a lot like small circus tents, and digimon wanting to go in there.

There were tents run by Jijimon, Babamon, Ponchomon, an Etemon and Bakumon duo, RedVegiemon and Vegiemon duo, Soulmon and even a fresh level digimon, Mokumon. And it was busy!

Tommy looked around in awe. All these digimon, and all these fortunetellers. "Wow. I've never had my fortune told before."

"Welcome to the club." Sophia smiled.

"I had my palm read once." Neemon said. "I took a week to get the pain off."

JP still didn't seem convinced. Fortune telling, what a joke. "Come on. Do you actually think any of these weirdos can tell the future?"

"JP, these are digimon with powers we have no idea about. It's very possible at least a few can tell the future." Sophia told him with a dry tone.

They went on through the town, stopping every once in a while to look at another fortune teller. There was a drunk Gekomon somewhere, which was an obvious fake. Then they saw a Sepikmon, who's 'Carry wood method' was just...bad. There were many more like that.

There was also this one tent, which had a Wizardmon in front, that seemed a lot less popular. Digimon just went past it, several times sometimes, and Wizardmon watched all of them.

Takuya walked up to one of the digimon that was walking past Wizardmon. "Hey, what's up with this guy?"

"You mean you don't know?" the digimon, Terriermon, asked him in disbelief. "This is the most accurate fortuneteller in this whole town. Everyone wants their fortune read by him."

Zoe, Sophia and Koichi also came up to the digimon. "Then why is everyone walking past him like that? Shouldn't they go in?" Zoe asked the bunny-like digimon.

"Wow, you really are new." Terriermon groaned. "You can't just walk in. You have to be chosen." When the humans stared at him in confusion, Terriermon explained further. "Wizardmon there keeps an eye on all digimon. He's got an eye for futures and will pick one he deems important enough. It's rare to be chosen by him, but it never stops digimon from walking by multiple times." he chuckled. "It never works. That's why most usually go for Shamanmon or one of the other real fortunetellers."

"Woah, he must be good then." Takuya said in awe.

He didn't waste another second and ran past Wizardmon. Sure enough, Wizardmon's eyes followed him, but took no action. The others, once everyone arrived, tried as well. But no luck. They looked back at the digimon once all the warriors and even Bokomon and Neemon had passed him. He was keeping an eye on them, but there was no movement.

"Guess we're not that lucky." Takuya said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.

Zoe nodded. "Guess not."

They were ready to just move on and get to Shamanmon, when...

"Yes you are."

Startled by the sudden voice, they quickly turned around. Wizardmon had stood up and was now right in front of them. "At least one of you is." He held out his hand to Sophia. "Wisemon wishes to speak with you."

Wizardmon didn't waste a second listening to any of the other humans and simply took the girl away to the tent. He led her inside, closed the curtains and then watched the entrance. Sophia was unnerved there. Who was Wisemon? Why pick her?

She took in her surroundings. There wasn't much light, which added to the creep-factor, but she could make out a desk type of structure at the back. There were two candles on either side of it and a cloth covering it. A shadow sat behind the desk. That was probably Wisemon.

"H-hello?" Great... Stuttering.

The dark shape moved a little to reveal two yellow dots in the darkness. "Please, come closer, human child. I will not harm you, I am not wild." Wisemon said with a gentle voice.

Sophia did as the digimon said and went up to the desk. There was a pillow in front of it which she didn't notice before. The moment she sat down on it, the candles flared up and lit the place. The light revealed a humanoid digimon in dark robes and a light cloth wrapped around his head allowing only two yellow dot-eyes to be shown. There was also a book on the table and two orbs floating in circles around the digimon.

Before Sophia could utter a word, Wisemon spoke. "You do not understand why you were called to here. Please allow me to make it clear." Sophia nodded, voice caught in her throat. "You are different from your friends, I feel. There is an aura around you, which you cannot conceal."

The two orbs stopped spinning once they were on either side of the digimon. A light beam shot out of them, encircling the human girl.

Wisemon hummed. "Just as I thought. This is the answer I sought." Small tendrils of light floated towards a parchment, seemingly writing something on it. Whatever was being written on there was also said by Wisemon.

"I see you hail not from here.

But from a place far away, that is clear.

There will be peril among your path.

For there are many digimon with hearts filled with wrath.

Among them a warrior known as one of plant.

Who will fall powerless to evils command.

They must be led back to your side.

Otherwise you shall fall to evils might.

But I see a light at the end as well.

For though you will face hardships, and might go through hell.

I see a world brought forth with peace and harmony.

But upon your return, you will face a question with an answer that shall be for eternity.

Should you chose to stay with your many-a friend.

I foresee bonds of friendship that never shall end.

But should you return, back to where you came.

I cannot see future's plan for you, much to my shame."

Sophia's mind spun. They will succeed. Go through hell? A-a warrior of plant? Was that the last warrior? And they fell to evils command? So, they are probably Duskmon's replacement. Great, just when she thought they only had to deal with 4 evil warriors.

The lights around her dimmed or disappeared into the parchment. Wisemon rolled up the piece of paper and handed it to the young girl.

"Should you wish to seek my words once more. I present you this, should there be something you look for."

The brunette hesitantly took the paper. "T-thank you." She said as she stuffed it in her jacket's pocket.

"There is no need for a thanks, little warrior of sound. I look forward to the day that we can once again play around. In a digital world that is once again in peace. It is thanks to you warriors that evils influence will cease."

This was apparently the end of the session, as the candles dimmed and the curtains opened. Sophia stepped out and was immediately greeted by the others.

"How did it go?" "Did you get your future told?" "What did he say?" "Did he mention anything about us?"

"C-come on. My future isn't that important..." Sophia muttered, looking away. "Besides, I was only chosen because he could feel I'm from another world..."

The others were about to protest, but luckily Bokomon butted in saying they had to hurry to Shamanmon, which Sophia mentally thanked him for. On the way there they met another few fortunetellers that were obviously faking it, causing a few complaints from JP.

"Have a little faith, please. I do know what I'm doing." Bokomon quieted their complaints as they approached a temple-like structure. "Shamanmon is the real thing."

They went inside through huge double-doors into a dark room. The only light there was currently coming from the door and possibly a few unseen windows. Completely in the back of the room was a black skinned digimon with its back to them.

Bokomon recognized him. "Shamanmon, I call upon your wisdom, your insight and basically...well, ask you for two cents of advice."

The digimon, Shamanmon, didn't move to look behind him. "Who calls upon Shamanmon?"

"Weary travelers." Bokomon answered. "In need of guidance from the universe."

"Oh, you'll get guidance, alright." Shamanmon finally turned to face the warriors, revealing a familiar looking face.

Everyone, except Koji and Sophia, were startled to see that face again. "Wait a minute! I remember you!" Takuya called.

"You're one of those nasty Goblimon from the Wind Factory." Zoe pointed out.

"And he's pretending to be another digimon." Koichi also joined in.

"Come on you guys! Let's get him!" They all pretty much reached for their D-Tectors when Tommy said that.

Bokomon, who'd realized his mistake the moment Takuya spoke, quickly tried to stop them. "No, no, no! Shamanmon is one of the good guys!"

"Maybe should have mentioned this before..." Sophia continued when she had everyone's attention. "Sometimes digimon look alike in everything except color. A different color always means it's a different digimon."

'That's why he didn't feel evil...' Two voices rang through her head. The twins. Wait! Koji too?!

"You should be very careful." Shamanmon suddenly had everyone's attention as he began dancing strangely. "Ahead, you face much danger." What else is new? "You will come up against a foe you have faced before, but this foe has a friend." What? "And by beating them you will find a friend is your foe." What?! But this was the prediction about Koichi being Duskmon!

Takuya and Tommy eyed each other skeptically, while the others just seemed confused. "I don't buy it." Takuya said, to which Tommy agreed.

"Then listen to this!" Shamanmon's shout brought Takuya and Tommy back to facing the medium. "The greatest test will be faced by you two." He pointed his club at the aforementioned duo. "This test has the power to destroy you all if you're not careful." His serious face remained for just a moment before he went back to where he stood before with his goofy smile back in place.

"Hey, come back!" Tommy called.

"Yeah, we don't wanna get destroyed!" Takuya cried after.

Shamanmon went back to dancing for his next bit of fortunetelling. "Then remember who you are. And trust in each other, and your friendship."

Right when Shamanmon finished, an earthquake shook the temple. It shook the digimon off his feet and almost did the same for the others. They followed JP's idea to run for it outside, but almost fell in the process when the earthquake seemed to get even worse.

They were, however, just in time to see the ground burst open and reveal a golem-like digimon with a metal headpiece. On it was Grumblemon. Takuya took the lead running towards them with the whole group following.

"A foe or big friend?" Takuya wondered out loud, keeping Shamanmon's words in mind.

"Grumblemon is riding on him! What do you think?!" Sophia snapped.

"It's Golemon." Bokomon pointed out.

Golemon growled as his rider smirked down at the warrior kids. "Grumblemon backwith big angry surprise for little Spirit kids."

Koji glared at the purple armored warrior. "One of these days I'm gonna beat this jerk for good." he growled, remembering their last encounter.

Zoe huffed at his actions. "When are you gonna learn?" she asked him, hands on her hips and annoyed expression on her face. "How about working with the rest of us, hah?"

"We can deal 6 times as much damage by working together." Koichi tried in a more 'Koji-way' to get his brother to see the appeal in teamwork. It seemed to work. Koji's glare turned into a smirk after hearing Koichi's words.

Golemon didn't waste any more time. His master wanted these creatures gone, so he had to act. The children watched as the golem-digimon jumped up and launched at them. Neemon whimpered as Takuya, for whatever reason, wanted to wait a minute. Everyone else had their D-Tectors already in hand, ready to Spirit Evolve any second. Golemon struck the ground just in front of the children. Sending them all flying backwards.

That did it. Takuya now also took out his D-Tector. "Right. Minute's over!"

"EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION!"

"AGUNIMON!"

"BEETLEMON!"

"KUMAMON!"

"LOWEMON!"

"SONAMON!"

"Now for the Beast!" Koji exclaimed. "EXECUTE! BEAST SPIRIT-"

"Me no think so!" Grumblemon broke Koji's concentration. He threw some powdery substance at the area Koji was jumping to.

Where the powder landed, some kind of pentagram appeared. It froze Koji's movements even when he was jumping above it. When he landed, though, it completely immobilized him.

His D-Tector dropped to the ground as he struggled to move. "What's going on?" He asked, slightly trembling in his attempts to get up. "I can't move."

Grumblemon smirked down at the crouched boy. "Sorry, KendoGarurumon no play today." he snickered, clearly finding amusement in seeing one of the warrior children bowed down to him. "You no move till Grumblemon say so."

"CRYSTAL FREEZE!"

Kumamon had just about enough of the taunting. Unfortunately Golemon and Grumblemon jumped out of the way of his attack. The ice warrior, though, wasn't that lucky. He got hit full-body by punch thrown by Golemon and went flying again.

Beetlemon cried his name in worry. Without really looking if he was alright or not, he readied a payback attack. "THUNDER FIST!"

The attack hit the golem digimon head-on, literally, but it had no effect. He didn't even wince. Instead he just stared blankly at Beetlemon.

Then he opened his mouth. "SULFUR PLUME!" Volcanic gases spewed from his mouth, catching both Beetlemon and Kumamon.

The powerful blast send both of them flying into a bunch of pillars before coming to a halt on the rocky ground.

Grumblemon snickered on top a pillar. "Please not do tell me that best you can do." Golemon also laughed at their pathetic attempt to fight him.

"My turn!" Agunimon growled. "PYRO PUNCH!"**

This time it did seem to effect Golemon, but he was quick to recover and recoil with another Sulfur Plume. It pushed Agunimon back, and also took Beetlemon and Kumamon for another flying trip.

"Our turn Lowemon!" Sonamon exclaimed. "Let's combine."

"Right!" Lowemon readied himself, going to stand next to Sonamon.

"Koichi." Lowemon looked back to where Koji was still stuck. His brother shot him a grin. "Beat this guy extra hard for me, would ya?"

Lowemon nodded and got into position again. "Ready?" When Sonamon gave him the okay, he attacked. "SHADOW METEOR!"

"SONAR BOOM!"

Sound waves surrounded the shadow blast, creating a more powerful attack. It hit Golemon in the stomach area and pushed him back a little, but other than that it didn't seem all that effective. The same fate befell them as they were also hit with a Sulfur Plume and joined their friends in blasting a few feet away.

"You can do it! Just work together!" Zoe called from the sidelines.

'We. Just. Did!' Sonamon thought grumpy, getting up from the ground.

Grumblemon had enough of all the struggles against him. "Enough. You finish!" he shouted. "You surrender Spirits now or be destroyed big time."

"Boy, would I like to shut that guy up." Beetlemon growled as everyone else stood up from the last attack.

"Yeah, me too!" Koji, in his frustration, managed to make one move. Punching the ground in anger. "There's gotta be something I can do!"

"Anybody got any suggestions?" Beetlemon asked the others.

Agunimon's mind was racing. What could they do? Beetlemon's attack had no effect, his own barely managed to push him back, Kumamon's was dodged so he had no idea how powerful it was.

Wait. Lowemon and Sonamon pushed Golemon back quite a bit. He looked at them while trying to stand his ground as another earthquake hit. Those two combined their attacks, just like back at Toy Island. Just like he and Koji had too!

'Just work together.' Zoe's words rang through his head. That's it!

"Yeah." he finally answered Beetlemon's question. "Work together."

Golemon charged again, using the same jump and strike technique as before. This time, they were ready! The warriors jumped as well. If they did this right, Golemon could be pushed to the ground and the landing would do some damage.

"Hit him hard!" Agunimon commanded in his leader tone.

"Right!" "I'll chill him out!" Beetlemon and Kumamon cried, while Lowemon and Sonamon gave their silent agreements as well.

"BLIZZARD BLASTER!" Kumamon attacked Golemon's head, making him unable to see.

Beetlemon took his temporal blindness as an opportunity to get closer while charging his attack. Kumamon seized fire when Beetlemon got close enough. He didn't want to attack his own team after all.

Golemon only got a second to glance around before he was hit again. "LIGHTNING BLITZ!"

This time the rock digimon was hit in the stomach. They took full advantage of their sky-battle to push Golemon back as far as they could. He was getting too close to the ground. The warriors needed to get Golemon higher to make the impact with the ground harder!

Sonamon flew underneath the golem digimon. "SONAR BOOM!"

"SHADOW METEOR!" Lowemon also helped getting the evil creature higher into the air, as well as further away.

Now it was Agunimon's turn. With the help of Beetlemon getting him higher up, he attacked. "PYRO TORNADO!"

The force of his kick send Golemon flying. He landed in front of Grumblemon, vanishing in a cloud of smoke. He wasn't defeated yet, but it was still a victory for the human warriors. They finally managed some good teamwork! Golemon won't be getting up soon with these injuries!

"No!" Grumblemon cried, refusing to accept defeat. He jumped from his spot on the pillar, Agunimon exclaiming to not let him escape. "EXECUTE! SLIDE EVOLUTON!… GIGASMON!"

A little overconfident from their last victory, Kumamon jumped into action again. He used his Blizzard Blaster on Gigasmon, but he retaliated with Quagmire Twister. This deflected all the snowballs. Instead of his usual tactic of hitting the good guys repeatedly, Gigasmon trapped Kumamon inside the funnel he created. This way he would be thrown around and hit repeatedly without a chance of escaping or dodging.

Agunimon tried to save his surrogate little brother, but couldn't break through Gigasmon's attack. At one point he couldn't even reach them anymore when Gigasmon rose too far into the air.

When Gigasmon deemed enough damage to be done, he threw Kumamon out. The warriors watched in horror as Kumamon appeared...with a data stream around him. And even worse, the Spirit showed. As unfortunately expected Gigasmon ate the Spirit, turning Kumamon back into Tommy, who then proceeded to fall to the ground.

"Me have two now." Gigasmon said smugly. He didn't waste any time, though, immediately going into attack again. "TECTONIC SLAM!"

The warriors managed to dodge the attack just in time. All Gigasmon hit was ground, which may have been just as bad or even worse.

There was a sudden explosion. But it wasn't from Gigasmon. It came from behind them. A quick look revealed that Shamanmon's temple had been blown up and a huge dragon-like digimon was headed their way. The evil warrior noticed him coming as well, but too late. The mysterious digimon slammed his weapon into Gigasmon, sending him flying until he collided with a pillar.

He, as well as the warriors, stared at the big-nosed digimon in silence for a moment, until the mysterious digimon erupted in roars. Tommy immediately fled the scene, naturally.

"What is that thing?" Agunimon wondered, staring at the creature twice their size.

"Oh, you mean other than bad news?" Beetlemon replied sarcastically. Why couldn't things ever just go their way?!

Bokomon called out to them from behind. "Now just hold on." he told them. "That thing may be on our side."

"Okay, but..." Agunimon looked the growling digimon over. "Somehow I don't think so."

"Whatever he is, he seems very upset." Neemon piped up. But right then, the digimon's growls turned into laughter. "Maybe not!"

Sonamon shook her head. "Neemon's right." she muttered as they watched the fight between it and Golemon. "Those cries just now, those were definitely cries of pain. I could hear it."

"Hear it? How?" Beetlemon asked her, finding it hard to believe that thing was upset or hurting.

Sonamon gave him a blank stare. "I'm the warrior of sound, what do you think?"

"What does that have to do with anything?" Beetlemon cried. "Just because you're the warrior of an element doesn't mean you get special powers having to do with that!"

"Yes it does."

Eyes now turned to Lowemon, who remained silent as he focused on Golemon and the dragon-digimon. The winged digimon had taken flight with Golemon holing onto his legs. There was an obvious darkness coming from Golemon, but there was very little of that from the other digimon.

The group down below decided explanations could wait. There was a fight coming up and they weren't exactly standing in a safe spot. With no idea how powerful the newcomer was, it was best to stay clear. No one wanted another Spirit to be lost.

Sure enough, the blasters on the winged digimon's arms turned around sending a barrage of attacks at Golemon. After taking only a few seconds of the attack, Golemon lost his grip and fell, dissolving into data bits before even hitting the ground. So that's how powerful he was... All Gigasmon could do was stare in shock as the helmet was crushed by the dragon-digimon's foot. As he launched to attack, Gigasmon took the coward's way out and dug himself to safety. This deactivated the spell-circle around Koji, who immediately fled to safer grounds.

"He's really strong." Tommy cowered in fear as the dragon-digimon once again roared.

"Too strong." Koji said as he joined Tommy and Zoe on the sidelines.

Zoe took her eyes off the digimon to look at Koji. "If he comes after us, there's no way we can beat him."

"Right, time to go." Bokomon said while turning around to push everyone away from the dangerous scene.

Beetlemon and Lowemon were quick to follow their example. "Agunimon, come on." The warrior of thunder called out.

"Eh? Yeah..." he answered, turning around. "Sonamon?"

"R-right." The hesitant girl followed to after the call.

"Help me!"

A voice rang out, startling Agunimon as well as Sonamon. The two warriors stopped in their tracks, turning back towards the dragon-mon. He still seemed to be roaring, but his roars were replaced by an actual voice.

"I'm possessed by the Beast Spirit!"

Wait a second... Agunimon knew that voice. "Shamanmon?"

"Please, rescue me!" Suddenly the poses he struck seemed different. They seemed to be less about showing off how powerful he was... They were more struggles, more...like he was in pain. Was it like that the whole time? "I was in the temple when the Beast Spirit was revealed. The instant I touched it I was possessed."

Agunimon shook his head. What was that just now? Why was he able to see what had happened? Wait. He took a closer look at the digimon. Shamanmon said this was a Beast Spirit... A-and he'd shown to have flame powers. Was this his Beast Spirit?

His eyes narrowed as he stepped closer to the digimon. If this was his Beast Spirit, he would handle this. "Sonamon, please leave this to me. Go to the others." he told the female warrior in his 'there's no debating around this' voice.

Beetlemon heard him talking and turned to see what was going on. What he saw was Agunimon stepping loser to the rampaging digimon. "Agunimon? What are you doing?!" That thing destroyed Golemon in one hit and made Gigasmon flee in panic! Did he honestly think he could take that thing on by himself?!

"Don't worry, Shamanmon. I can help you." Apparently he does...

Unfortunately things weren't gonna go too easy. Flames suddenly began spewing out from the slits in his armor. No one was going to be able to touch the digimon now, except of course Agunimon.

'Shamanmon' swung his burning tail at Agunimon, who skillfully dodged. Everyone had stopped walking by now, watching the warriors of flame going at each other. Agunimon unleashed his pyro punch midair, which were unfortunately blocked by 'Shamanmon's' arm blasters.

'Shamanmon' quickly went from defense to attack as he turned his blasters around. A multitude of shots were fired at Agunimon, who got a chest full of it. The attack launched him farther into the air, after which he landed painfully on the rocky ground. It was a miracle he managed to avoid the pillars.

Oh, but 'Shamanmon' wasn't finished yet. While Agunimon struggled to get up after such a powerful attack, 'Shamanmon' jumped at him and pushed him back to the ground with his foot.

Agunimon tried to get up again, fighting through the pain of his new injuries, but was met with a blaster to his face as soon as he moved.

'I was trying to help you.' Went through Agunimon's head as their eyes met.

Ignoring the calls of his teammates, he kept his eyes focused on the digimon in front of him. Somehow, this seemed to help Shamanmon gain some control over his body. With a lot of struggle, he put away his blaster.

"Strike now!" he called, which startled Agunimon. "Now!"

Not daring to waste anymore time, Agunimon did just that. He kicked the leg that wasn't pressing him down, which send 'Shamanmon' backwards. Agunimon ran the other way to get some distance, but didn't go too far. This was it. He had to put all his energy into this attack and free Shamanmon.

He slammed his fists together as flames spewed out of his gauntlets. "PYRO PUNCH!"

He threw one of the flame fists at his face. It was a direct hit, but didn't seem to face the digimon too much. Agunimon's fists tightened. This had to be it. This second punch has to knock him down! It has to be strong enough!

The second punch was thrown at his chest. Another direct hit, but this time it actually managed to knock him down. He didn't come back up, which was probably a good thing, Agunimon decided.

"Now to free Shamanmon." Agunimon took his D-Tector right as the weakened Beast warrior stood up. Like before with Tommy and Zoe, he turned into a black silhouette with his Fractal Code around him. "My D-Tector should release him." He hoped. "FRACTAL CODE DIGITIZE!"

Sure enough, it worked. As Takuya scanned the Beast warrior, Shamanmon was freed. The weakened digimon fell to the ground. But that wasn't the end...

The Spirit didn't get absorbed into the D-Tector like usually. Instead it went straight for Agunimon, as it felt the presence of its Human-Spirit counterpart. As it got closer, something happened. No one was sure what, but Agunimon suddenly started screaming in pain and disappeared into a cocoon of Fractal Code.

The Spirit was still untamed. In fact, it was even wilder than usual. Its first host failed to tame it. Now it took all the anger, pain and lust for power with it to its new host. Also having taken part in a fight made the primal instincts of the beast stronger. It longed for more fighting. It didn't matter if its host was hurting. He. Must. Fight.

The Fractal Code disappeared, revealing the dragon-digimon to the human kids. He was growling, but other than that nothing happened yet. M-maybe Takuya managed to control it? At least that was what the warriors were hoping.

Their hope was soon shattered. Just like when Shamanmon was possessed, flames spewed out of every crack and slit of his armor accompanied by howls of pain. The Beast Spirit has possessed Takuya.

The beast turned around upon hearing their voices. All he could see in his state was a digimon and a bunch of unidentifiable creatures. The digimon was staring right at him. Was it waiting for a fight? Well he could get one!

"Takuya." Beetlemon called, not liking the look he was given one bit. "It's me!"

But Takuya wasn't there at the moment. It was just BurningGreymon. He saw the other two digimon as well, also staring at him. So it was 3 against one, huh? How unfair...for them.

BurningGreymon charged at Beetlemon, who was caught off-guard, and pushed him backwards. The children unable of Spirit evolving fled the scene, but Koji stayed behind. He watched Beetlemon getting punched by BurningGreymon again. Knowing his power, that had to hurt.

"Takuya! That's JP!" he called out.

Now he'd gotten BurningGreymon's unwanted attention. The beast jumped at the blue clad boy, ready to tear him apart. Luckily Koji was a quick thinker and jumped out of the way, pulling out his D-Tector to Spirit evolve. If it was a fight he wanted, he was going to get it. Beast against beast.

While Koji Beast Spirit evolved, Lowemon kept the warrior of flame away from his brother. Beetlemon and Sonamon helped to keep the beast distracted from its original target, but it only worked for so long. They were eventually all knocked aside as he went for Koji again.

Luckily, his evolution had finished by now. Now as KendoGarurumon, he used the wheels on his heels to get away and behind him in time. The Beast of flame turned around to face his beastly foe. So this is how they were going to play this, huh? Four against one. This had to be too easy!

Beetlemon tried in vain to stop the two beasts from fighting. None of them seemed to hear him. Koji wasn't even listening to his brother.

"Koji! Takuya! Stop this!" Beetlemon cried, once again in vain.

"Takuya's not there!" Sonamon snapped. "It's just the Beast Spirit, JP."

Beetlemon stared at the warrior of sound. "That doesn't mean we have to fight him!"

Sonamon just glared back. "If you have a better idea how to get him back I would love to hear it!" Beetlemon remained silent. "That's what I thought."

"Fighting him might be the only way to bring Takuya back." Lowemon said, hesitantly striking a fighting position. As much as he doesn't want to fight Takuya, if this was what he had to do... "Weaken him until he reverts back."

'Let's just hope that'll work.'

*This is something I actually used to do when I was frustrated, stressed or just bored.

**Why are there so many dub mistakes on Pyro Punch?! The animation clearly shows him punching. Pyro Tornado is kicking. (And yes I'm sure it's a dubbing mistake, because I watched the Japanese episode too which said Burning Salamander, which is the Japanese name for Pyro Punch)

Thanks for reading!