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AN:I honestly had no clue how this would turn out considering the fact that I had no clue as to how to start the bloody chapter, but I think it came out all right.
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-The Ninth Child-
xX-Two More for the Team-Xx
-Hamasaki Academy; Computer Lab-
"How's it goin', guys?" Davis greeted when he, T.K, Kari, Tai, Kagome, and Sora stepped into the computer lab.
"Hi, everyone," Sora smiled.
"Alright, you three," T.K looked at Davis, Yolei, and Cody, "Show Sora your Digivices."
The trio looked at each other before holding them out. All were same in body shape and style, but the colouring was different for each one thought they all had white bodies. While Davis' had blue accents, Yolei's had red, and Cody's yellow.
"So those are the new Digivices," Sora mused, looking at the different models curiously.
Tai nodded, "They appeared when I touched the Digi-Egg of Courage."
"Then what are waiting for?" Yolei asked excitedly. "Let's go!"
"Wait a second," Davis stopped the lavender-haired girl. "Maybe I should give you some pointers first."
"Come on," Yolei scoffed, "You've only been there once!"
'And usually once is enough to tell you that it's not all fun and games,' Kagome shook her head.
"I think we should at least be prepared for some danger if what we've heard from Izzy is correct," Cody suggested.
But before Yolei could form a proper response, Izzy walked back towards them. "It's just as I thought: The Digital Gate only opens on this terminal here, and not only that, but it's never opened two days in a row before!"
"Well, then all ashore that's goin' ashore!" Davis exclaimed.
The group nodded and spoke their agreement.
"Tai? Tai Kamiya, is that you?" came a voice from behind them.
Kagome, Sora, Izzy, and Kagome froze as everyone turned to see who it was.
"M-Mr. Fujiyama?" Tai stuttered out. "W-What are you doing here?"
"What am I doing here?" the teens' former elementary teacher walked into the lab. "What are you four doing here? Didn't you all graduate? Izzy, Sora, Kagome, it's real great to see you again!"
"Yeah, but what are you doing in the computer lab?" Sora asked nervously.
"Well, I'm the new head of the Computer Club!" the teacher boasted.
"Computer Club?" Kagome and Sora blinked. "But what do you know about computers?" the raven-haired girl asked.
"Absolutely nothing!" the teacher said cheerily.
The former students of Mr. Fujiyama sweat-dropped. 'We should've known…'
"I just remembered!" Tai said loudly, getting everyone's attention. "I had something I need to talk to you about. You got a minute?" He started pushing his former teacher out of the computer lab.
"Sure," Mr. Fujiyama answered. "What's up?"
"I-I'm just having some trouble adjusting to high school," Tai made up the excuse, "It's the girls, you know?" He threw them a peace sign as he left.
"We definitely owe you one, Tai," Sora breathed a sigh of relief.
"Of all the things to ask about," Kagome commented, "He chose girls?" She looked at Sora. "Is he implying something?"
The orange-haired teen shrugged. "Who knows? Tai will always be Tai."
"Let's get going!" Izzy nodded to the Digital Gate as everyone crowded around the terminal.
In response, everyone took out their Digivices and held them up to the screen. Just like before, a bluish light enveloped them as they were slowly being taken into the computer.
-Digital World-
"Is everyone okay?" Izzy asked when they all landed safely on what seemed to be a grassy hill.
"Yeah, but I feel like I've gone through the rinse cycle of a dishwasher!" Davis shook his head to get rid of the dizzy spell he'd been hit with during their trip.
"So this is the Digital World," Cody looked around in awe. He then looked down at himself. "And I'm wearing new clothes, too! Huh, they pretty comfortable…"
"Me, too!" Yolei looked down at her new outfit. "I feel like a part of the cool crowd now!"
The~Ninth~Child
Yolei wore a pair of red high-waisted pants that were baggy around the thighs but tighter from the knees down, a blue long-sleeved turtleneck under a khaki vest, a pair of mint-green and white mid-calf-high boots, a pair of white gloves and an orange helmet. Her glasses had made it through her trip, still sitting atop her nose.
The~Ninth~Child
Cody now wore a pair of maroon pants with a cream-hued long-sleeved shirt and a pair of brown and white sneakers.
The~Ninth~Child
"I definitely forgot about the new wardrobe" Davis mused. "Maybe I should've warned them…"
"Looks like you got a clothing change, too, Kagome," Sora pointed out.
Kagome nodded with a sheepish grin. "I don't know why, but at least this means that my school uniform won't get trashed enough for Mama to have to get a new one."
"That's true," Izzy nodded.
"Oh wait till I tell my sisters that I got free clothes!" Yolei squealed. "They'll be so jealous!"
"I wonder if they've got anything in a surfer style," Davis commented.
The four members of the previous DigiDestined just watched in astonishment as the the three new DigiDestined went on about the clothes with excitement.
"Kids today have no sense of value," Sora shook her head. "When I was a kid, I showed a lot more respect whenever I received a gift."
"I hate to say this, but you kinda sounded like my mom right there," Kari sweat-dropped, giggling all the while.
"We'd better get going if we want to check up on the others," Kagome announced.
The group nodded and began walking in a random direction, the teens calling out for their respective Digimon all the way.
"Biyomon!"
"Tentomon!"
"Kudamon!"
"Gatomon!"
"Patamon!"
"VEEMON!" Davis shouted at the top of his lungs, cupping his hands around his mouth the amplify the sound. "VEEMON! WHERE ARE YOU?!"
"Davis!" came the faint voice of Veemon. "I'm over here, Davis!"
"Veemon!" Davis went over the shake hands with his Digimon. "It's great to see you!"
"You, too!" Veemon nodded before turning back around. "I brought Patamon and his friends with me!"
The group looked up to see Gatomon, Patamon, Kudamon, Tentomon, and Biyomon headed their way. Immediately, each partner headed over to each other as quickly as they could when they caught sight of each other.
"Well aren't you a sight for big, sore, green eyes!" Tentomon exclaimed.
"Tentomon," Izzy grinned.
"I've missed you a lot, Sora," Biyomon nuzzled her partner when the orange-haired girl took her up in a tight embrace.
It was then that Kagome's head snapped up from where Kudamon was nuzzling his partner. "Something's here…Another Dark Ring!"
"What?!" the group looked at her in alarm, though Yolei and Cody looked comfused.
"Where?" Kari asked worriedly.
"Up there," Kagome looked up to where a large cloud was passing over them.
"Um, are you sure?" Yolei asked, silently questioning the older girl's sanity. "That's just a cloud."
"My sister doesn't lie," Kari shook her head. "If she says something's there, it's there all right."
"And she was right!" Tentomon shouted when the cloud had passed, leaving behind a giant green insectoid Digimon with blade-like arms that ahd a Dark Ring snapped around his mid-section. "It's Snimon!"
Just as quickly as Snimon was seen, it dived, aiming straight at Sora and Biyomon.
"Look out!" T.K shouted, pushing the pair down to the ground to dodge Snimon's attack.
"Spiral Twister!"
"Boom Bubble!"
"Super Shocker!"
"Glorious Whirlwind!"
The attacks were all aimed at the green Digimon, but it avoided every single one of them.
"Lightning Paw!" Gatomon landed a solid punch on the Digimon's face, but was batted away with its blade.
"I'm sorry," the feline Digimon said weakly. "But without my tail ring, I just don't have enough power!"
"Then just leave everything to us!" Veemon nodded. "Davis, get the egg ready!"
"Wait!" Kagome cried out, but her call was left unheard.
"You got it!" Davis nodded, clutching his Digivice.
Unfortunately, before Davis could even activate the egg, the ground underneath him crumbled, leaving the maroon-haired boy to drop into a deep crater. Luckily, he managed to grab onto the side of the crater before he fell any farther.
Davis looked down and saw that the crater was caused by another Digimon, this one looking like a purple and white mole with a huge drill nose. A Dark Ring was clasped around one of his front paws.
"That's Drimogemon!" Tentomon told them. "He lives deep inside the cavities of the digital world. His drill spin attack will make you wish you were at the dentist."
"You okay, Davis?" Veemon asked.
"We've got another one headed out way!" Kagome informed them.
"From where?" Izzy asked.
"I can't tell," Kagome shook her head.
It was then that a large white Digimon that resembled a Yeti came through a cluster of trees nearby.
"That's Mojyamon!" Tentomon reported. "He's a frosty Digimon that lives in the snowy mountains. His Bone Boomerang attack will make your head spin!
"Bone Boomerang!" Mojyamon sent said object flying at Veemon before anyone could speak so much as a warning.
As a result, Veemon was sent plummeting into the crater Davis was stuck in, only this time both of them, along with Drimogemon fell deeper and deeper into the chasm until they couldn't be seen anymore.
"They're gone," Yolei fell to her knees, trembling, "The ground just opened up and swallowed them…"
"I thinkI want to go home now," Cody said, his body shaking as much as Yolei's.
'Poor kids,' Kagome's eyes softened a bit, 'They were so excited to come, but not once did they think about the dangers here. But it's better to learn that now instead of later; this place isn't as nice as we think, or at least it isn't right now, not with the Digimon Emperor' on the loose.'
"We need to find shelter first," Kagome told them.
"But what about Davis?" Cody asked.
"Spiral Twister!"
"Boom Bubble!"
"Super Shocker!"
"Glorious Whirlwind!"
"Davis'll be fine," Sora told them. "But our Digimon are only at half strength right now and I don't know just how much longer they'll last. We need to get away!"
Suddenly, Yolei burst into tears. "I wanna go home!"
"Come on," Kagome pulled the sobbing girl up and dragging her along as they all ran. "This isn't the time for tears. You wanted to come here and you did. We tried warning you that the Digital World isn't a place without danger, but you didn't listen to us. You need to get a hold of yourself!"
The group fled into the forest, sticking close together with the Digimon right beside them.
"Hey, my Digivice is starting to make some weird noise!" Cody's proclamation stopped them.
T.K, Kari, Kagome, and Yolei brought theirs out as well, hearing the same beeping noise.
"Ours are going off, too," T.K said, looking at the Digivices he, Kari and Kagome had.
"There must be something nearby," Izzy said logically.
"There is," Kagome nodded. "I can feel it…"
"It looks like it could be some kind of building," Sora peered down at Kari's screen.
"There aren't any buildings around here, are there?" Biyomon looked up at Tentomon.
"Nope," the insectoid Digimon answered. "Just the temple."
"A temple?" Sora asked.
Biyomon nodded. "But it's been abandoned for a while now."
"Well, where is it?" Izzy asked.
"It's just past the thicket over there," Tentomon pointed at the cluster of threes to their right.
The group pushed through branches and bushes until they found themselves before a ginat temple that resembled something the Aztecs or Mayans had built so long ago.
"Hasn't anyone heard of escalator?!" Yolei whined.
'She reminds me of someone…' Kagome mused, trying to figure out just who it was that the lavender-haired girl reminded her of.
"Well, look at this way, Yolei," Biyomon said brightly, "Only a few more steps to go!" She gestured to a long staircase.
Yolei only sighed.
When the group reached the top of the staircase, they found two small podiums, each with a Digi-Egg on top.
The first had a yellow Digi-Egg with the Crest of Knowledge done in violet, while the other was silver with what seemed to be bat wings and the Crest of Loved etched in violet.
Izzy and Sora looked at each other and nodded before going over to the Digi-Eggs to try and lift them up. But like with Tai, the eggs didn't budge.
'Could they be for Yolei and Cody, then?' Kagome wondered. 'Just like the Digi-Egg of Courage went to Davis?'
"They won't budge," Sora shook her head.
Kagome tapped Cody and Yolei's shoulders. "Why don't you two give it a try? Cody, take the one on the left and Yolei, you take the one on the right."
"Of course!" Izzy's eyes widened when he remembered what Tai said about him not being able to pull the Digi-Egg of Courage out, but Davis could. He looked at Sora and knew that she, too, had remembered the same.
"Go on," Sora nodded.
"You want us to try?" Yolei blinked. She and Cody looked at each other.
"If you say so," the young boy said nervously.
The two new DigiDestined stepped up to the eggs Kagome had designated for them and placed their hands on them. They took a deep breath and lifted the eggs free with no hassle.
"It seems we were correct, then," Izzy nodded.
Just then, like it had happened with Davis, two geysers of coloured sparks shot out of the places where the Digi-Eggs had sat; red from under the Digi-Egg of Love and violet from the Digi-Egg of Knowledge. And also like before, two Digimon began appearing from within each of the spouts.
From the red stream came a white and red bird Digimon with blue eyes and a black belt attached around his head holding up the yellow feather on the back of his head.
From the violet stream came a yellow Digimon that resembled a large armadillo with green eyes.
"Howdy!" the yellow armadillo greeted Cody. "Name's Armadillomon and we're partners!"
"Pleasure to meet you, Yolei," the bird-like Digimon walked up to the lavender-haired girl. "My name is Hawkmon and we'll be fighting together from now on!"
"What?" Yolei freaked out. "Fight? Me? Na-uh! No way! I've only ever fought with my sister over who gets the last cookie!"
Sora and Kagome shared a glance. They finally figure out who the lavender-haired girl reminded them of.
Mimi.
"So you refuse to fight?" Hawkmon blinked at his partner. "Hmph! Why is it that I get the defective human?!"
Sora and Kagome walked up to the girl. "Yolei," the orange-haired girl spoke.
"Sora?" Kagome?" Yolei looked from one older girl to the other. "Is something wrong?"
"We have a friend kind of like you. Her name is Mimi," Kagome explained. "She never liked fighting anymore than you did."
"But she did it anyway for the Digital World," Sora picked up, "Yolei, the more you help your Digimon, the more you'll grow closer to them."
"And that's a friendship you'll carry with you for the rest of your life," Kagome finished with a gentle smile.
"And you've got two more friends for life, too," Sora and Kagome clasped their hands over Yolei's. "Us."
Yolei looked surprised for a moment, but smiled anyway.
"What do you think about the Digital World so far, Cody?" Izzy asked.
"I don't really know," Cody shrugged. "I've only been here for a short time, after all."
"But you must have some sort of opinion already," Izzy pressed.
"Well, I try not to judge things until I have all the information," Cody explained, "But this place is so new to me, and I have so many unanswered questions. I'm afraid I don't know where to start first."
"You seem like a curious kid who just wants to know all the facts. Sounds like someone I know," Izzy chuckled.
"So what should I do?" Cody asked.
"Do what I did," the auburn-haired genius told the younger body. "Learn to trust your instincts. And if there's ever a problem you can't solve, then come to me and we'll solve it together."
Cody grinned and gave nod. "Okay!"
Yolei and Cody turned to their partner Digimon and their Digi-Eggs began to glow their respective colours, violet and red.
"Pardon me," Hawkmon interrupted. "But in order for us to Armour Digivolve, you must say 'Digi-Armour Energize'."
Cody and Yolei nodded. "Digi-Armour Energize!"
Immediately, the two new Digimon began fusing with the Digi-Egg their partner held.
"Hawkmon Armour Digivolve to: Halsemon, the Wings of Love!"
"I am an Armor Digimon. As Hawkmon, I used the Digi-Egg of Love to armor digivolve. I use my Tempest Wing attack to defeat my enemies," Halsemon recited.
Halsemon was a large four-legged bird-like creature with a silver mask resembling the Digi-Egg of Love.
"Armadillomon Armour Digivolve to: Digmon, the Drill of Knowledge!"
"I too am an Armor Digimon. As Armadillomon, I used the Digi-Egg of Knowledge to armor digivolve," Digmon said.
Digmon was a large golden insectoid Digimon with drill bits for hands and one for a nose. The Crest of Knowledge along with other violet markings were etched upon his yellow shell.
"Now, what do say we find the others?" Digmon asked.
The group just watched at the two Armour-Digivolved Digimon in awe.
"But how are we supposed to find them?" Yolei asked.
"Leave that to me," Kagome told them.
The~Ninth~Child
"Leave him alone!" Davis shouted to the Digimon Emperor as the Dark Ring edged closer and closer to Veemon.
"Eagle Eye!" two beams of red light were shot at the Dark Ring, destroying it.
"What?!" The Digimon Emperor growled.
"Hold on Davis, we're coming!" Yolei shouted from on top of Halsemon.
"Get Veemon!" Davsi told the lavender-haired girl. But he needn't have worried because just then Digimon burst in on the scene through the cliff wall behind Veemon, clutching the small Digimon in his arms.
"Sorry to burst in on you like this!" Digmon joked.
"You coulda knocked!" Veemon grinned.
The Digimon Emperor gritted his teeth and tried to escape, but found Gatomon standing there, poised to attack. "This litterbox ain't big enough for the two of us," she said.
"Keep your claws to yourself, you big bully!" A small green caterpillar-like Digimon jumped before the Digimon Emperor. He jumped at Gatomon.
"Lightning Paw!" Gatomon batted the bug-type Digimon out of the way and into the very person he was protecting.
"You're useless!" The Digimon Emperor shouted at the insect Digimon when he dropped Davis' D-Terminal and Digivice.
"Thank you!" Yolei called when he caught the two devices.
The Digimon Emperor growled before taking out his bullwhip and snapping it towards Gatomon. "Here Kitty!" However, instead of binding the target he was going for, the fall wrapped itself around the arm of a human.
Gatomon, who's closed her eyes, waiting for the inevitable to happen, opened them when she didn't felt the leather wrapping around her. She looked up and saw Kagome standing tall behind her, the fall of the whip wrapped tightly around her arm.
The Digimon Emperor only growled louder, trying to tug the raven-haired girl to him and off the ledge, but she held tight, unmoving.
"Kagome!" Gatomon said worried when she saw the leather tighten and bit into her skin just a bit.
"I'll be fine," Kagome grunted. "Get back to the others! Go!"
"Snimon! Mojyamon! Drimogemon!" The Digimon Emperor called, loosening his whip around the girl's arm and bringing it back to him.
Each of the three named Digimon came out from a separate hiding place, aiming to go for the DigiDestined.
"Need a lift?" Yolei asked, swooping down to Kagome.
"Absolutely," Kagome nodded, getting onto Halsemon as they swooped down to the bottom of the canyon where the others were already at.
"Here you go," Yolei gave Davis his D-Terminal and Digivice back.
"Kagome!" Kudamon flew up to his partner and situated himself around her shoulders once more. "Don't ever leave me behind again!" he chastised her. It was then that he caught sight of her arm. "What happened to you?!"
The group turned to Kagome at that and gasped at the sight of her arm. There were bruised marks from where the whip had wrapped around her arm and there was some blood from the places the leather had bit into her skin.
"Kagome!" Kari ran over to her sister and looked over the appendage. "What happened?"
"The Digimon Emperor's what happened," Gatomon hissed. "He was about to use his whip on me, but Kagome stepped in and took the hit…"
"Here," Sora took her red ribbon off of her school uniform and wrapped it gently, but firmly, around the raven-haired girl's arm. "This won't be as good as a real bandage, but it should hold for a while." She looked at Kagome. "You won't try and do this all the time, will you?"
"Who knows?" Kagome shrugged. "I'll try not to get into situations like this, but you know I won't stand by let others get hurt."
"Tai's gonna have a cow…" T.K sighed lowly.
"That's it!" Davis shouted angrily. "It's time for a little payback!" He turned to Veemon. "What do you say?"
"Count me in!" Veemon nodded determinedly.
"Digi-Armour Energize!" Davis shouted.
"Veemon Armour-Digivolve to: Flamedramon, the Fire of Courage!"
"Let's show them what Armour Digimon can really do!" Flamedramon spoke. "Attack!"
"The you'd better hold on tight, Yolei!" Halsemon told his partner.
"Okay!" Yolei agreed before they launched into the air at Snimon while Digmon began drilling into the earth to go after Drimogemon.
The group watched as Mojyamon launched an icicle at Flamedramon. "When it's fire against ice," Flamedramon chuckled as he caught the icicle, melting it in his glowing claws, "Fire always wins. Flame Fist!" He launched a couple fireballs at Mojyamon.
The yeti-like Digimon was engulfed in flames before the group saw his Dark Ring shatter into nothing.
"Yes!" Davis cheered.
They looked up to see how Yolei was doing and was just in time to watch Halsemon throw out his Tempest Wing attack at Snimon, shattering his Dark Ring as well.
Thought they couldn't see Digmon and Drimogemon, when the two popped up out of the ground and Drimogemon was no longer violent, they understood that the insectoid Digimon destroyed Drimogemon's Dark Ring.
"Are you all right?" Kagome and Kari stepped up to the three, now calmed, Digimon to look them over.
"Sorry we had to fight you, but we needed to destroy the Dark Rings," Veemon explained. "I hope we're still friends."
"It's all right," Mojyamon told them, "We're just grateful that you saved us all." The three Digimon turned around and walked off, or in Snimon's case, flew off. The group waved the three Digimon goodbye as they left.
"Digimon Emperor!" Davis said angrily, more so when he saw the makeshift bandage around Kagome's arm. "I'll show him who's in charge!"
Kagome and the rest of the former DigiDestined watched as the new generation got along with their Digimon.
"I guess they don't need us anymore," Sora commented.
"I don't think that's true," Izzy spoke, 'I still think we have a lot of work ahead of us."
"We can still help out to fight against the Emperor," Biyomon suggested.
"And offer them advice and guidance when they need it," Tentomon added.
"What a team," Sora smiled.
"I think it's time to go home!" Davis shouted out to the rest of the group, who agreed.
-Hamasaki High; Computer Lab-
"What happened to you guys?!" Tai asked, surprised when he saw the group bunched together on the floor with a few Digimon with them.
"Please don't ask," they all said in unison.
"Hey, the Digimon all returned to their In-Training forms," Tai observed.
"Wha?" Davis looked up at a tiny DemiVeemon on his head.
"Oh you're adorable!" Yolei cuddled the small pink puffball that was Poyomon.
"I don't understand how such a tiny ting like this can turn into a huge Digimon like Digmon," Cody commented, looking at Upamon.
"Is this going to happen every time we come back?" Kari asked.
"And I thought Digivolving was a tough job," Patamon commented.
"At least we made it back to the real world safe and sound," T.K pointed out. 'Or at least, most of us,' his eyes darkened when he remembered Kagome's injury.
"Everyone's here except Biyomon and Tentomon…" Sora mused.
"Don't worry, Sora!" Biyomon said from the computer screen. "We'll be all right since the Digimon Emperor never comes out at night."
"Imagine that; so much power and yet he's afraid of the dark!" Tentomon said.
"Well, you'd better get some rest," Sora told them. "In fact, we all should be heading home by now."
The group agreed and headed for home after the Digimon, bar Kudamon, insisted that they stay in the Computer Lab so as not to arouse suspicion.
-Kamiya Residence-
"You're not going to tell Tai?" Kudamon asked as he helped Kagome wrap bandages around her arm. Kagome had already cleaned and disinfected the wound and iced it down a bit when they'd gotten home.
Kagome shook her head. "If he knows, he'll only blame himself and I don't want him to do that," she replied. "Besides, I did this on my own, so there's no one but that brat to blame."
"Brat?" Kudamon said amused as Kagome pulled the sleeve of her long-sleeved shirt down over her arm. Normally she'd go to bed in a tank top or even a t-shirt, but in order for no one get suspicious, she had to cover up. At least her school uniform was conservative enough.
"The Digimon Emperor, of course," Kagome said as if it were obvious. "He's nothing more than a spoiled brat who'll do whatever he wants whenever he wants because he thinks he's allowed."
"And how would we go about dethroning him?" the fox-like Digimon asked.
"We'd need to find more Digi-Armour Eggs," Kagome replied. "I have a feeling that those just may be the key to taking him down."
Ciao,
TsukiyoTenshi