Disclaimer: I do not own digimon, it is the property of Toei Animation and
Bandai. I am not making any money on this so please don't sue. But I do
own all the characters that I create, so please don't take them and if this
has any similarity to other stories or characters, sorry, it was not meant.
Author Note: This fanfiction has nothing to do with Azulongmon and the other three Guardians, or Digi-gods, hinted to in the show.
The Digital Guardians
Chapter 1
The Legend Awakens
(Tai Narrating) Boy it's been a little over a year since we defeated MaloMyotismon and we've all gotten on with our lives, pretty much. I've been chosen for the Japan national soccer team, Matt's band has really started to get popular (especially with the girls), Izzy's kept in touch with Genni and has helped him write a few computer programs for watching the Digi-world, Mimi's fashion ideas have really started to take off in America, Joe has completed a lot of his medical training, Sora has been a real help to her moms flower shop, TK has been leading his Basketball team to the finals at school, and of course Kari is there cheering him along with the cheerleading squad, Davis is still as thick headed as ever but the soccer team he and Ken are on has really been doing great, Yolie has went and wired computers all over her parents store, and Cody has really gotten good with the Kendo sticks thanks to his grandfather. The Digi-world has been peaceful thanks to Owikawa's sacrifice, sure their have been a few problems but nothing major. The weird thing is that Genni contacted Izzy and said he had something important to tell all of us, old and new digidestined, so we all are headed to the Digiworld to find out what is so important.
The digidestined find them selves in a mountainous region of the digital world.
"Hey Izzy where's Genni?" asked Tai
"I don't know. He said he'd meet us here." replied Izzy
"And so I have Izzy." said Genni from behind all of them and startling them.
"And look who he brought with him. Agumon!" yelled Tai
"Biyomon"
"Gabumon!"
"Palmon!"
"Tentomon!"
"Gomamon!"
"Patamon, Gatomon!" called TK and Kari together.
"Veemon!"
"Yup, did ya bring me any chocolate Davis?" asked Veemon
"Hawkmon!"
"At your service Yolie." said Hawkmon
"Armadillomon!"
"Did ya bring me anything Cody?" asked Armadillomon
"Wormmon!"
"Ken, your squashing me." said Wormmon
"Sorry pal." apologized Ken
"Well now that the reunion is over, why did you want to see all of us Genni?" asked Tai
"You may all not like this but I have found an ancient scroll that might interest you." stated Genni
"Not another prophesy." wined Mimi
"No this is more of a legend, but I have found that there is some truth to it." said Genni
"What proof do you have Genni?" asked Izzy
"Well first, you all know about all of the digidestined that are scattered all over Earth and that your not the only humans to come the digital world." said Genni
"Well of course, we met lots of them when we had to go and destroy all the control spires that started to pop up." replied Izzy
"Yes, well this scroll points to the fact that there were humans here long before even you original eight digidestined. In fact very well back to near the beginning of the digital world itself." said Genni
"What!" said every one
"Bu..but how is that possible?" said Davis confused "Their weren't even computers back then. Were there?"
"Davis you really have to pay more attention to what we tell you about when we were first here." said Kari
"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Davis
"Izzy would you please explain the time difference that occurred near the beginning to Davis. Again." said Genni
"Ok, try to remember this time Davis, when we first got to the Digi-world we were here for months. We figured every one had given up looking for us. That is until Tai and Agumon were sucked back to the real world after we defeated Etemon. They had found that it was actually still the same day when we had left." explained Izzy
"Hey that's right, I thought we had traveled back in time." said Tai
"Yeah, can I finish Tai." stated Izzy angrily.
"Oh, sorry Izzy" apologized Tai as Izzy stared him down.
"Anyway, that event showed us that time went a lot faster in the Digi-world than in the real world." said Izzy
"I don't understand Izzy, I thought that time flowed the same speed in both worlds." said Ken sounding very confused.
"Well it is now, but it wasn't until after we defeated Apocalymon and then when the digiworld was restored. Genni actually told us that the time in both worlds had synchronized and that we had to leave the digiworld or we would be stuck here forever. We were sad that we had to leave our friends but we had no choice and we thought we would never see them again. That is until last year." finished Izzy
"That's when I caused all that trouble as the Digimon Emperor." said Ken as he remembered his past.
"Don't talk like that Ken it wasn't your fault. You were only being controlled by something evil, you weren't really evil." reminded Wormmon
"That's right." said Yolie agreeing
"Yeah." said Cody also agreeing.
"Thanks guys." said Ken with a smirk.
"Yes, do you understand everything now Davis?" asked Genni
"I guess so." replied Davis still looking confused.
"Very well then may I continue telling about the legend on the scroll that I found?" asked Genni
Everyone, digimon and human alike was eager to hear more about this legend.
"The legend goes like this," started Genni, "Very near the beginning of digital time much evil existed, four humans were chosen to help protect it. They were given digivice and digimon but they themselves were also given great powers to fight the evils. They were known as the Digital Guardians, and they protected the digital world for several thousand until a dark and very evil digimon came. They battled hard but it was even to much for them, it had cast them into a deep sleep and just as it was about to destroy them powerful digimon that they had helped in the past came and distracted this evil digimon while the smaller digimon helped get them away from the battle field. The digimon tried all that they could think of to awaken the Guardians but with no success. So they placed them in containers that would hide their powers and hid them away deep within a mountain so that evil would not have a chance to destroy them. Also a series of obstacles were set up to keep being with dark hearts away from the Guardians. A second scroll that was found near this one says that the leader of the Guardians told how they could be awoken before he fell into the sleep. He said 'Only the children of the second coming would have the power and the pureness of hearts to waken us'." finished Genni
The group of children just sat there looking stunned, confused, and in awe of what Genni had just told them. It took several moments before the children and their digimon recover from what they had just been told.
"That's amazing but why tell us about this now, I thought that we took care of all the evil digimon? If it's true we could have used their help back then." said Ken
"Yeah and how come they lived so long?" asked Davis out of turn.
"Davis not now." scolded Kari
"Oh, sorry Kari." Davis said embarrassed.
"Anyway, your right Ken, as far as I know you children and the other digidestined did destroy all of the most powerful evil digimon when you destroyed MaloMyotismon. However, my counterparts and I detected an abnormally large amount of good energy in the digital world." said Genni
"Prodigious!" exclaimed Izzy
"So what exactly are you trying to tell us?" asked Joe
"Did you find them?" asked Mimi with a burst of excitement.
"Yes, we believe we did Mimi. We pinpointed the energy source in the center of Mt. Legend," said Genni as the points to one of the mountains that surround them, "When I went to investigate I discovered a cave that bears the symbols of each of your crests. That is how I knew the part of the legend that spoke of the children referred to you original eight"
"Well I'm sick of sitting around here doing nothing. If these people can help us protect the Digi-world than I say we go find them." exclaimed Davis very excitedly.
"There he goes again." moaned Yolie
"Yeah, trying to impress Kari." said TK explaining what Yolie meant.
"Davis may be trying to impress Kari but I believe we should find them as well. They have been asleep for a very long time and I believe we owe it to them to awaken them. Are you all with me?" asked Genni
"You bet we are Genni." said Izzy as they all nod their heads and agreed.
"Very well then hang on." said Genni as they were all engulfed in a rainbow light. When they emerge they are standing outside the cave that Genni had described with their crest symbols.
"So this is the cave you told us about Genni." stated Kari
"Yes Kari, when I saw your crest symbols I knew that the legend of the scrolls had to be telling the truth about the children of the second coming. After all there was a group of children that came before you to stop an evil very similar to Apocalymon." said Genni
"Well all right all ready, let go!" yelled Davis as he starts to march into the cave.
"Hold on there Davis it could be dangerous." said Tai as he grabs Davis by the shoulder.
"Da .. Dangerous!" Davis repeated and is frozen in his tracks.
"Tai could be right, while the scrolls don't speak of the details of the obstacles it does say that only beings with good hearts can enter safely." said Genni
"Well it should be safe but we should be careful just in case the obstacles are meant for anybody." said Izzy
"Yes but I will go first to make sure that you children are save." says Genni
"Well then by all means, lead on." said Izzy as he motions toward the cave and Genni enters.
As they entered the cave they saw that it was actually a very long tunnel with writings and drawings on the walls. The pictures were of ancient digimon fighting other digimon and what looked like a map.
"Hey Genni do you know what all of this writing is about?" asked Kari
"Perhaps, if I am translating it correctly it is the history and story of the Guardians in the legend. But I cannot be entirely sure. It is written in a mixture of ancient Japanese and a strange variation of what appears to be modern Chinese." said Genni
"So are these digimon the Guardian's digimon?" asked Yolie pointing out four different digimon on the wall.
"No, according to this part of the history they were known as the Protectors. But I have never heard of them or seen any mention of them in the ancient texts." said Genni still studying the writing.
"Well from the looks of these pictures they were fighting evil digimon to." said Ken
"Wait a minute! Genni could these be the digimon from the scrolls that saved the Guardians?" asked TK
"They could very well be. But for now I believe we should continue down the tunnel." said Genni as he began walking again.
As they continued down the tunnel they saw more of the Guardians story written down and also displayed in the many images that accompanied them. When they got to the end of the tunnel they were not very happy with what they found.
"Oh man, you mean we came all this way for a dead end!" Davis complained
"Maybe not Davis." said Genni as he examines the wall.
"What did you find Genni?" asked Ken
"There are eight holes on this wall in the shape of a circle with lines connecting them in the center. Each hole also has the image of a crest next to it." said Genni as he tried to point them out in the dark tunnel.
"Kari, TK look, your digivice's are glowing!" yelled Gatomon catching everyone's attention.
"Look, Tai and the others are glowing to, but none of us newer kids digivice's are." said Yolie
Just as she finished beams of light shot out of the digivice's and went strait into the holes with the child's corresponding crest symbol.
"What's going on?" asked Davis
"I believe the power of the digivice's is needed for us to go beyond this point." explained Genni
"Look!" yelled Cody
"The light is moving down those lines to the center." said Ken
"Everyone shield your eyes." said Genni just as the area is filled with a very bright light.
"Look, the wall is gone." said Izzy as he turns his head back.
"Yes and it has revealed a room." said Genni
"Hey look, four metal boxes." said Davis pointing into the room.
"I think they're more than just boxes Davis." said Izzy, "They have glass tops and what looks like places for our digivice's."
"Your right Izzy," said Tai, "they are places for our digivice's, and look inside, each box has a human and digimon in it."
"So these must be the Guardians." said Sora, "Oh wait a minute look, they each have tags and crests like we used to have."
"Your right Sora they do have tags and crests, but I have never seen the symbols on them before." said Genni
"Hey Tai look at this." said Agumon standing next to one of the boxes.
"What is it Agumon?" asked Tai
"This hole for the digivice has your crest symbol in it." said Agumon
"Your right Agumon, and the one next to it has the crest of Light." replied Tai
"Then your two digivice's must go in those places." said Yolie
"Well how about it Kari?" asked Tai
"I'm Ready if you are big brother." replied Kari
"Well all right, lets do it." said Tai
As they place their digivice's into the slots they started to glow with pink and orange light.
"Wow! That's amazing." said Mimi
"Ah! Look the glass is disappearing." said frightened old Joe
"Calm down Joe." said Matt
Just as the glass disappeared the light of the digivice's flashed and filled the room causing everyone to shield their eyes again. Then just as suddenly as the light had come it left and they heard a groan coming from the box.
"What was that?" asked Yolie as they all try to take a peak into the box. Just as the person inside sat up.
"Ah!" yelled all the children and digimon
"Thank-you children for awakening me." said the strange human.
"Who are you" asked Genni
"Oh, of course allow me to introduce my self," he said as he climbed out of the box, "my name is Nathan, I am one of the four Digital Guardians chosen to protect the digital world."
He stood about six foot tall, with brown hair, green eyes, a light tan, and light muscles. He wore a white short sleeve t-shirt tucked into his blue jeans with a black belt around his waist.
"Well Genni I'd say this proves that your legend was true." said Izzy
"Your right Izzy, but he has introduce himself and we should do the same." said Genni
"Please I already know that you children must be the digidestined that were foretold," said Nathan, " and that you my good fellow must be one of the people who helped to choose the original digidestined. However, I do suppose it would help to know your names."
"You are right I did help choose the digidestined. My name is Genni and these children are Davis, Ken, Cody, and Yolie. They are some of the newer digidestined." said Genni introducing himself and some of the others.
"I'm Tai and this is Matt, Sora, Mimi, Izzy, and Joe." introduced Tai
"And I'm Kari, Tai's younger sister, and this is TK, Matt's brother," said Kari, "The power of me and Tai's digivice's was what woke you up."
"And for that I will be forever grateful." said Nathan
"Hey could you keep it down out there" said another voice from the box.
"Oh sorry, I forgot you were in there." said Nathan as he looked into the box.
"No problem." said the voice as it jumped out of the box to reveal the digimon behind it.
The digimon stood about half as tall as Nathan. He was covered in brown fur and had a small trunk and two tusks sticking out of his face, and a silver metal ring around his right ankle.
"Hey, he looks like the Tapirmon that we met at Digitamamon's Chinese restaurant." said Davis
"Sorry Davis this guy's name is Tunskmon. He's a lot like Tapirmon except he actually has legs and the only metal he has is his ankle ring. His attack is Tunsk Blast, which he shoots out of his trunk." explained Nathan
"Hey Nathan where are the others?" asks Tunskmon
"Oh yeah, Children do you think you could help our friends the same way you helped us?" asked Nathan
"Sure." they all said
"Well then, the six others of you with crests should.." started Nathan
"Wait Nathan they don't have crests." Tunskmon pointed out.
"I don't understand. Only the children with the crests could awaken us
"We did have crests and we can explain why we don't have them now." said Izzy
"This is true, one day I had called them back to the digital world and told them that they had to release the power of their crests in order to protect the digital world." explained Genni
"Oh, I'm sorry for doubting that you were the digidestined. I am still a little jumpy from our last battle." said Nathan
"No problem we all get confused some times, right Davis." said Matt
"What's that suppose to mean!" Davis yelled
"Just forget it Davis." said Tai
"I see Davis isn't good at taking jokes." said Nathan
Every one laughs while Davis stands there with his face getting redder.
"Well now that that's settled maybe you could wake up my friends?" asked Nathan again.
"Okay but I have a question first." said TK
"Yes TK." said Nathan
"How come you and your friends have tags and crests. I thought only we did?" asked TK
"Yeah, and how come your digivices are a different color than ours.?" asked Izzy getting into the questioning mood.
"I should have known that you would have questions. But, I suppose I should start form the beginning." said Nathan as he snapped his fingers and a screen was uncovered on one of the walls of the cave.
"Wow!" exclaimed Mimi in here usual amazed voice.
"What's the screen for?" asked Izzy
"This screen will show you images of what I am about to tell you. So please relax as I tell you, me and the other Guardians story, of how we came to be." said Nathan, "Ages ago their existed four being that worked to protect the balance of the digital world. However, they found that they could not do it alone. So they created four powerful digimon that were given specific jobs to help protect the digital world. They were known as the Protectors, the first of which was called Sundramon. She is easily recognized, not just by the fact that she appears human, but by the image of the sun that is emblazoned on her forehead. She was known as the Protector of Goodness, because she would protect any being with good in their hearts. Next is Watchdramon, with the body of a giant eagle she has dominance over the skies. The image of the eye on her chest is used to emit her most powerful attack, while the third eye on her head allows her to see any foreign presence within another. For this reason she was known as the Watcher of Evil for her constant surveillance of the powers of darkness. The third is Gatedramon, he is a stone grey human looking digimon with the image of a gate on his chest. His most powerful ability is being able to control the Digi-Ports and literally be able to close them completely. He is also able to open a digital gate from any point in the digital world to any point in the real world and vice versa, these reasons are why he is called the Protector of the Gate. The fourth and most powerful of the group is Timedramon. His humanoid body gives him great agility, and with the nose and ears of a fox he has a great sense of smell and hearing. He has golden fur that flows over his body and down to his tail. The clock images on the back of his hands allow him to manipulate and even travel through time, making him known as the Protector of Time."
"So what happened, were they destroyed?" asked Yolie
"Yeah they sound really tough." stated Davis
"No they weren't destroyed." said Nathan
"Then why were you and your friends chosen to become the Guardians?" asked Genni
"I will explain, however, this is where it can get confusing so be sure to ask if you have any questions," said Nathan, "One of the ancients had a vision of what the future would look like if no further action was taken to prevent it. So the ancient ones gave Timedramon instructions to search across time and bring back four humans with good hearts to help protect the Digital World."
"Wow so dose that mean you're from the future or the past?" asked Mimi
"The future actually." replied Nathan
"Prodigious, how far from the future?" asked Izzy
"About 50 years," replied Nathan, "However it was not a very pleasant future."
"What do you mean?" asked Kari
"Believe me it was not very nice, and I'd like to explain further but first I need to know how much you children know about the time line?" asked Nathan
"You mean how time flows from the past to the future right." replied Izzy
"In a sense yes," said Nathan, "your right Izzy, time does flow from past to the future, but it is also like a pool of water. If anything happens to any part of the pool, it affects the entire pool like a ripple across the surface."
"So do you mean that when you were chosen you changed time?" asked Ken
"Yes," replied Nathan," going back to the time line illustration, we were brought from a future part of the line to a past part of the line. If we hadn't been brought back, even today the real world would be under constant attack by dark digital forces."
"So you're saying that if you hadn't changed time both worlds would be devastated." stated Genni
"Exactly, and if you allow me to continue my story I will explain how the world was." said Nathan
"Please continue your story." said Genni
"Alright, keep watching the screen," said Nathan. The image of a devastated city appeared on the screen, "The year was 2056, the real world had been under attack since the year 1985. This is 5 years after what the GDA decided was the creation of the digital world."
"What's the GDA?" asked Kari
"Oh sorry. GDA stands for the Global Digital Alliance, an organization formed in May of 1993 to organize the fight against the dark digital forces that were attacking the real world," explained Nathan, "You see the GDA, or Alliance as it was also called, was able to organize all the digidestined around the world to help in the fight. They also devoted large amounts of their resources into researching weapons and equipment to help defend the Earth, they also were always working to develop technology for early detection of evil digimon. And now were me and my friends come in, you see their were a great deal more digidestined in the world than their are now, but most people around the world still helped to fight by giving information about the digimon or their locations. You see my friends and I weren't digidestined, we were the ones who helped in the info area, and we were all born and raised in the United States. The American government and military were one of the few organizations able to stand up to the digimon when they first started to appear. They also played a large role in the creation of the Alliance into a global force. As I said, we were information gatherers and we all started our careers by working for the local branches of the alliance. We all wished that we were digidestined, but since we weren't we all decided to help by joining the alliance. Keep in mind we were all from different parts of the country and so we each had our own special abilities and expertise, I was from the North, more specifically from Milton, Michigan in the western part of the state. It's a small town that lies along one of the state's highways. Oh, by the way my last name is Pepper. Erin James comes from southern Atlanta, Georgia. Growing up in the big city she was very close to much of the action when she was young and she developed many fighting skills. Ken Blaze grew up in LA and roamed the streets doing what good he could. Of course he really lived up to his name when he took off fast on his motorcycle leaving a trail of fire behind him. And Jen Donel grew up on a large cattle ranch in South Texas. She ran most of her operations for the Alliance from the ranch after she inherited it. Over the years of working for the GDA we all met occasionally and formed friendships over the many assignments we shared. As the years went on our workloads decreased and we went back to the way our lives were before the Alliance. It was in 2053 when what was believed to be the dark forces last efforts to over take the real world. Hordes of evil digimon appeared in the real world attacking anyone or thing they saw. As I said we had all gone about with our lives outside of the Alliance and so we could do nothing. The Alliance fought bravely but had many loses. Many of their leaders were lost and they began to loose more of the fights. Finally, in January of 2056 they came to us, we had been known for having much knowledge about digimon so they asked us to take the lead of the fight. We accepted and we began to win battles again, however, we knew we would not be able to win the war without a miracle. Then six months later our miracle happened. We were in a meeting with the few generals that we had left when Timedramon appeared, he told us how he had been sent to bring four humans back with him to help stop all of the destruction that had occurred. He said that he had been watching us for some time and that we were whom he must bring back, but that he would give us one day to let us decide. He said he would meet us back in that room tomorrow and then he disappeared. We ended the meeting and all went to think about what to do. We all decided that we had to go with Timedramon to save every one we knew. It was hard for us to come to this decision but we knew we had to go. As we waited in the room for Timedramon the building we were in came under attack. However, lucky for us Timedramon got us out of there just as the digimon were breaking into the room we were in."
"So you barely got out." stated Genni
"Exactly." said Nathan
"So what happened when you got out?" asked Kari
"You see Timedramon opened up a time hole and we all ran into it. We found ourselves falling through the hole for what seemed like hours. When we finally came out we found ourselves inside a cave with four glowing orbs hovering over four pedestals." said Nathan
"The ancient ones?" asked Yolie
"Yes, but they were not called that back then," explained Nathan, "Timedramon had brought us back to very near the beginning of digital time. They were known as the Digi-Spheres and they represented the elements of earth, fire, wind, and water. They represented these four elements because the elements represented all that is needed for life. Anyway, they told us that they would have to change us, not just make us young again but to extend our life span greatly and give us many abilities that exceed that of normal humans. They told us that these new abilities would develop as we stayed in the digital world. Then they gave us our digivices, tags and crests, and our digimon. We were told that the golden digivices contained power that far exceeded that of a regular digivice and that we would have to discover them for ourselves. And now for our crests, sorry it took so long TK, I was given the crest of Energy represented by a circle with eight lightning bolts coming out of it. Erin was given the crest of Loyalty, represented by a shield with two crescent moons at its top corners. Jen was given the crest of Clarity, represented by the shape of a water droplet and a small diamond at the top. Ken was given the crest of Peace, represented by a squared frame that extends on the corners to form small crosses and four circles on the sides. And so given our new abilities we went to work to protect the digital and defeat the evil that threatened both worlds.
"Wow! Now that's a story." said Davis
"But if you were so good then what digimon was so powerful that it could beat you?" asked Cody
"It was Apocalymon." said Nathan
"No way!" exclaimed Matt
"But if you couldn't beat him then how could we?" asked Tai
"Because it was known through out the digital world that only the children with the crests of Courage, Friendship, Love, Reliability, Knowledge, Sincerity, Hope, and Light would be able to defeat the ultimate evil that would try to destroy both worlds. You see we didn't know that Apocalymon was the evil that was foretold, but even if we had we still would have fought him, after all we swore to fight all evil no matter what the cost," explained Nathan, "are there any more questions?"
"I have one." said Cody
"Yes Cody." said Nathan
"How come all of your crests have a circle and a curved line in them?" asked Cody
"Good question. The line represents the balance of good and evil. The circle above the line represents the sun and the powers of goodness, and the curve in the line represents evils attempts to try to over come good, but just as the sun is out of reach so are the powers of goodness." finished Nathan
In the shadows of the tunnel lurk two figures. The first is completely unaware of the second and is staring directly at the group of humans. The second watching both the humans and the other figure. Then the first figure attacked.
Then from the shadows came the attack.
"Twin Sickles" yelled a Snimon (the first digimon)
"What was that!" screamed Yolie
"It's headed right for us!" said Davis
"Look out! Wolf Blast," came an attack from a wolf looking digimon, "Nathan quickly reawaken your friends, I will take care of Snimon."
"Wolfmon, what's going on?" Nathan asked
"The dark forces know you have been awakened and are approaching the mountain. I must go now." Wolfmon said as he tuned and ran back down the tunnel after the Snimon
"Who was that guy?" asks Davis
"That was Wolfmon, I've heard he's a very loyal and cunning digimon. He may look mean with the body of a grey wolf, but he's always fighting evil. But no ones seen one of his kind in ages." explained Tentomon
"If what Wolfmon said was true he will need some help," said Nathan thinking out loud, "Davis, Yolie, Cody, Ken please go and help Wolfmon until we can come and join you."
"But why do we .." Davis started but got Yolie's hand over his mouth.
"Davis will you quit thinking about yourself." said Yolie
"Don't worry we'll take care of everything." said Ken as he and the others ran out of the room dragging Davis behind and their digimon running ahead.
"There's no time to loose, please awaken my friends." said Nathan
"All right." they all said.
"Thank-you, now find the slots with your corresponding crest symbols and place your digivices into the slots." explained Nathan
"But what do we do?" asked Tai
"Yeah our digivices were used to wake up you?" asked Kari
"I know. I just want you here incase," said Nathan as he turned to the others, "everyone ready?"
"Yeah!" the others said.
"Then do it." said Tunskmon and the other chambers started glowing as they placed their digivices in the slots. Then the other humans and digimon in the containers sat up and got out of the chambers.
"Nathan what's going on?" asked a girl with long sandy brown hair that came to the middle of her back, deep blue eyes, and tan skin. She had on long blue jeans and a black belt with a short sleeved red t-shirt.
"Trouble Erin." replied Nathan
"What kind of trouble?" asked the other girl with shoulder length fire red hair, the same blue eyes as Erin's, and darkly tanned skin. She had on Black jeans, a navy blue t-shirt, and a white belt.
"The usual kind Jen." replied Nathan
"You know we're with you." said the other boy in black jeans, black t- shirt, and a white belt. He stood a little taller than Nathan, his skin was the same color but he had more muscles, with jet-black hair and emerald green eyes.
"I know Ken," said Nathan, "Now children go and help your friends, we'll be there in a moment."
"Don't worry, we'll hold them off for now." said Tai as they all ran down the tunnel.
"What do I do?" asked Genni
Stay here if you want just don't get in our way," said Nathan, "Erin go and get the bases power core back online."
Meanwhile outside...
"Fire Rocket"
"Gold Rush"
"Man where are all of these Woodmon coming form." moaned Davis
"Who cares where they're coming from," said Yolie, "Why are they attacking us?"
"Something must be controlling them." said Cody
Then they all heard a loud thud as a giant tree digimon and several Blossomon appeared.
"Oh no we can't beat all of them." yelled Ken
"Don't worry help has arrived," yelled Matt as he and the others came out of the cave, "Are you ready Gabumon?'
"You bet, Gabumon digivolve to ... , it isn't working Matt."
"None of our digimon can digivolve." said Tai
"Kari it looks like armor digivolving is still working." pointed out Gatomon as she saw her friends fighting.
"All right," said Kari, "Digi Armor Energize!"
"Patamon's going too, Digi Armor Energize!" yelled TK
"Gatomon Armor digivolve to ... Nefertimon, The Angel of Light!"
"Patamon Armor digivolve to ... Pegasusmon, Flying Hope!"
"That's good, but two more armor digimon isn't going to be enough," said Sora, "and besides what's that big tree thing anyway?"
"That's RedWoodmon." came a soft little voice.
"Who was that?" asked Mimi
"Just my dorky little sister." came another voice not quite as soft.
"Hey watch it Hareiormon, I'm just as good as you." said the first voice as two little rabbit like digimon came out of the bushes. They were both a light brown color with white fronts. They were walking on two legs and had long ears that stood strait in the air.
"That's Hareiormon and LadyHareiormon. They share looks as well as attacks. Their attacks are Hare Thump and Hair Twister," exclaimed Wolfmon who had almost been forgotten in all the fighting, "But you can't be the same Hareiormon that I fought with so many years ago."
"That was our Dad." said LadyHareiormon
"He talks about you a lot," said Hareiormon, "but the Digi-Spheres sent us to this time to help fight and to tell you that RedWoodmon was sent by the Dark Ocean."
"Do you have the same ability as your father?" asked Wolfmon
"Yeah!" replied the two
"Good, you two help the children hold off the Woodmon and Blossomon. I'll hold off RedWoodmon until Nathan and the other Guardians get here." ordered Wolfmon
"But you guys are only rookies. What can you do?" asked Yolie
"Just stand back and see." said Wolfmon as he, Hareiormon, and LadyHareiormon started glowing.
"Hey Izzy doesn't glowing usually mean ..." started Davis
"Digivolving!" finished Izzy
"Now, Wolfmon digivolve to ... Werewolfmon!"
"Hareiormon digivolve to ... Rabberiormon!"
"LadyHareiormon digivolve to ... LadyRabberiormon!"
"That's Werewolfmon. He looks a lot like WereGarurumon, he has his body except for he has the same fur as Wolfmon and he still has Wolfmon's head. His attacks are Were Claw and Werewolf Blast." explained Izzy
"And I am Rabberiormon and this is my companion LadyRabberiormon. As with our previous forms our looks and attacks our shared. We use our Rabbit Kick to knock our enemies off balance and finish them off with our Rabb Cannon!"
Both of them looked like they had just had a growth sprit. Their ears were slicked back, they had visors over their eyes, and they had large rotary guns for their left hand.
"But how can they digivolve?" asked Mimi
"Who cares, but even Werewolfmon won't be enough to beat RedWoodmon." said Izzy
"You think I'm done yet." Werewolfmon said and started glowing again.
"Werewolfmon digivolve to ... Saberwolfmon!"
Werewolfmon's fur grew shaggy, he had two spiked sashes forming an X across his chest. Both hands had extended claws and he had a large dagger in a sheath at his right side.
"Izzy who is that?" asked Davis
"Just give me a second I'm checking." said Izzy typing frantically on his computer "Whoa, that's Saberwolfmon, an Ultimate warrior beast digimon. His main attacks are Saberwolf Blast and Saber Claw, but for his most powerful attack he uses his sword in his Wolf Slash."
"Wow he looks pretty tough for an Ultimate," said Kari, "you can take that tree Saberwolfmon!"
"Thanks for the vote of confidence," said Saberwolfmon as he turned, "and now as for you RedWoodmon."
"Please do you actually think that you can beat me? I am a Mega after all, now allow me to fully introduce myself," said RedWoodmon, "I am RedWoodmon, a Mega level dark forest digimon. My attacks are Red Leaf Pelter and Bark Shards. I have only one purpose, to destroy the forces of good."
"Do you really think I would let that happen." sneered Saberwolfmon
"You are no match for me. Ha ha ha." laughed RedWoodmon
"He's Right, he has to be at least 20 feet tall," said Yolie as the ground began to shake, "Now what!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the mountain they had been in earlier just in time to see it split down the middle and a gigantic floating object came out. It was shaped like a square box with rounded edges, it was white in color and on each of the four sides were the four of the Guardians crest symbols.
"Their not alone RedWoodmon!" Came a voice from atop the object.
"It's Nathan!" yelled the children
"I said we'd be here. RedWoodmon, Saberwolfmon isn't alone. You ready Tunskmon?" asked Nathan
"Ready!" said Tunskmon
"All right!" said Nathan as his digivice glowed and Tunskmon jumped of the object.
"Tunskmon, warp digivolve to ... TransMammothmon!"
"I am TransMammothmon, the Mega form of Tunskmon. This is the only of my forms in which I have armor, my attacks are Tusk Missiles and Blizzard Blast, Which will freeze you in your tracks RedWoodmon."
He was as tall as RedWoodmon. His body was like a Mammoth WarGreymon but without the claws and more armor. He had large hands and a Mammoth head with tusks and trunk.
"We'll see about that, Bark Shards!" said RedWoodmon
"I'll show you my power, Blizzard Blast!" called TransMammothmon as a blast of blue and white came right out of his trunk
"Me to, Wolf Slash." said Saberwolfmon as the three began a colossal fight.
"Our turn now." said the Gotsumon that belonged to Ken Blaze
"We'll help with the Woodmon!" said the Starmon that belonged to Jen
"You bet!" said the Floramon that belonged to Erin
"Gotsumon digivolve to ... Monochromon!"
"Floramon digivolve to ... Kiwimon!"
"Try this Woodmon, Vulcanic Strike!" said Monochromon
"Don't leave me out, Pummel Peck!" said Kiwimon
"Or me, Meteor Stream!" said Starmon
"And now it's our turn." said Nathan
"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Tai
"Just watch Tai, are you guys ready? I think it's time to trim some Blossomon." said Nathan
They all took out their digivices and held them in front of them with their left hands.
"Guardian Blades," the four Guardians yelled as beams of light shot into the air. As they came down they turned into swords that the Guardians caught with their right hands, "Crest Armor Activate!"
Their crests began to glow and the glow spread across the chest, to the front of their legs, and around the arms. The glow turned into gold armor with their crest symbols on the chest plate.
"Wow that's cool!" said Mimi
"Cool, that's amazing!" said Izzy, "I've got to look this up on my computer."
"For get your computer Izzy, look what their doing now." said Tai
"Wow, are they flying?" asked Izzy looking up.
"Yeah, right at those Blossomon." said Matt
"Block this Blossomon." Nathan said as he and the others flew past the Blossomon cutting off several vines.
"My vines! You will pay for that humans." said a Blossomon.
"Thorn Whips!"
"Oh no, their hit!" said Yolie
"Nathan, Ken and Jen are out cold." said Erin
"That's it. You ready Erin?" asked Nathan putting his sword away at his side.
"Ready Nathan." replied Erin putting away her sword.
"Why did they put away their swords?" asked Cody
"That's why, Look!" said Ken Ichijouji as he points to their arms, which the armor had suddenly, heightened to form cannons on top
"Guardian Blaster!" Nathan and Erin yelled as they fired large blasts of energy at the Blosemmon making them fly miles away.
"Erin go check on Ken and Jen. TransMammothmon, Saberwolfmon how are you doing?" asked Nathan
"Not Good. Ah .." TransMammothmon yelled as he was thrown back and dedigivolved back to Tunskmon.
"Tunskmon, hold on." said Nathan moving almost instantly from where he was to 50 feet away to catch Tunskmon in his arms.
"This isn't good." said Mimi
"No kidding, our digimon can't digivolve and our only mega just got knocked out." said Joe
"Way to state the obvious Joe!" said Matt
"Now to finish you off," said RedWoodmon, "Red Leaf .."
"Temporal Disruptor"
"Solar Strike"
The two attacks came out of nowhere and knocked RedWoodmon over.
"What was that?" asked Davis Finally saying something again.
"It's about time you got hear Timedramon." stated Saberwolfmon
"Sorry, we were a little held up." said the newly arrived Timedramon
"With what, we've been here bustin our .." started Lady Rabberiormon
"Cool it sis'! RedWoodmon was sent by the Dark Ocean, you have to destroy him Timedramon." explained Rabberiormon
"I understand," said Timedramon, "Gatedramon!"
"Way ahead of you pal," said Gatedramon, "Gate Freeze!"
A beam of light came down and surrounded RedWoodmon freezing him in place.
"Our turn, Temporal Disruptor!" said Timedramon
"I'm in, Sun Star!" said Sundramon as she formed a gold star above her head and then threw it right at RedWoodmon .
"Don't forget about me, Eye Beam!" said Watchdramon as a gigantic beam of energy shot out of the eye image on her chest.
"Ha! Your freeze wore off Gate.. What! Ahhh!" yelled RedWoodmon as the attacks hit him and he became Digi-Dust.
"All right, they did it." said TK as all the digimon dedigivolved.
"Woe what happened?" asked Woodmon
"Yeah, last thing I remember we were in the forest." said another Woodmon.
"You were being controlled, but your free now." explained Kari
"Gee, Thanks." said a Woodmon as they went back to the forest.
"Well, there they go." said Tai
"Are you children okay?" asked Timedramon
"Yeah, and you guys were great." said Yolie
"You weren't bad yourselves. said Nathan
"Nathan! Are they going to be alright?" asked Kari when she saw Nathan and Erin helping Ken and Jen walk toward them.
"We'll be okay as soon as we get back to the base." said Jen
"Base?" questioned Tai
"That air ship up there." explained Erin
"Speaking of the ship, said Ken looking up, "Hey Genni quit snooping around and get down here."
"I wasn't snooping." said Genni as he came out of his rainbow transport.
"How did he hear you?" asked Cody
"Their are screens all over the ship that monitor events. I knew he would have to be near enough to one to hear me." explained Ken
"Anyway, from what Hareiormon has said we have bigger problems. I think you children should go home." said Nathan
"But we want to stay and help." said Davis
"Yeah!" said the children and digimon.
"I'm glad to hear it, but it is nearly nightfall and your families will worry about you," said Nathan, "Unfortunately the Dark Ocean has begun making moves against the Digital World."
"Wait! Are you saying the Dark Ocean is alive?" asked Ken Ichijouji
"In a sense." said Nathan
"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Davis
"The Dark Ocean is similar to the Digital World, after all, the Digital World choose all of you to be digidestined." said Nathan
"But I thought that Genni and his friends did that?" asked Sora
"Well, Genni is a part of the digital world isn't he!" stated Erin
"Tai. We should get going or mom's going to worry." said Kari
"Yeah my parents will worry too if I'm not home on time." said Ken Ichijouji
"Then you all should go. If we need your help we'll contact you." said Nathan
"Okay and you can count on us being back." said Yolie
"And if you ever need help we'll be there." said Erin
"Thanks," said Davis, "Is every body ready, Digi-Port Open."
They were all sucked into the Digi-Port along with Veemon, Hawkmon, Armadillomon, Wormmon, Patamon, and Gatomon.
"You know Nathan, I only hope all our powers are enough to save the digital world." said Ken
What other powers do these Guardians have and is the Dark Ocean really alive? Find out next time on Digimon:The Digital Guardians
Author Note: This fanfiction has nothing to do with Azulongmon and the other three Guardians, or Digi-gods, hinted to in the show.
The Digital Guardians
Chapter 1
The Legend Awakens
(Tai Narrating) Boy it's been a little over a year since we defeated MaloMyotismon and we've all gotten on with our lives, pretty much. I've been chosen for the Japan national soccer team, Matt's band has really started to get popular (especially with the girls), Izzy's kept in touch with Genni and has helped him write a few computer programs for watching the Digi-world, Mimi's fashion ideas have really started to take off in America, Joe has completed a lot of his medical training, Sora has been a real help to her moms flower shop, TK has been leading his Basketball team to the finals at school, and of course Kari is there cheering him along with the cheerleading squad, Davis is still as thick headed as ever but the soccer team he and Ken are on has really been doing great, Yolie has went and wired computers all over her parents store, and Cody has really gotten good with the Kendo sticks thanks to his grandfather. The Digi-world has been peaceful thanks to Owikawa's sacrifice, sure their have been a few problems but nothing major. The weird thing is that Genni contacted Izzy and said he had something important to tell all of us, old and new digidestined, so we all are headed to the Digiworld to find out what is so important.
The digidestined find them selves in a mountainous region of the digital world.
"Hey Izzy where's Genni?" asked Tai
"I don't know. He said he'd meet us here." replied Izzy
"And so I have Izzy." said Genni from behind all of them and startling them.
"And look who he brought with him. Agumon!" yelled Tai
"Biyomon"
"Gabumon!"
"Palmon!"
"Tentomon!"
"Gomamon!"
"Patamon, Gatomon!" called TK and Kari together.
"Veemon!"
"Yup, did ya bring me any chocolate Davis?" asked Veemon
"Hawkmon!"
"At your service Yolie." said Hawkmon
"Armadillomon!"
"Did ya bring me anything Cody?" asked Armadillomon
"Wormmon!"
"Ken, your squashing me." said Wormmon
"Sorry pal." apologized Ken
"Well now that the reunion is over, why did you want to see all of us Genni?" asked Tai
"You may all not like this but I have found an ancient scroll that might interest you." stated Genni
"Not another prophesy." wined Mimi
"No this is more of a legend, but I have found that there is some truth to it." said Genni
"What proof do you have Genni?" asked Izzy
"Well first, you all know about all of the digidestined that are scattered all over Earth and that your not the only humans to come the digital world." said Genni
"Well of course, we met lots of them when we had to go and destroy all the control spires that started to pop up." replied Izzy
"Yes, well this scroll points to the fact that there were humans here long before even you original eight digidestined. In fact very well back to near the beginning of the digital world itself." said Genni
"What!" said every one
"Bu..but how is that possible?" said Davis confused "Their weren't even computers back then. Were there?"
"Davis you really have to pay more attention to what we tell you about when we were first here." said Kari
"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Davis
"Izzy would you please explain the time difference that occurred near the beginning to Davis. Again." said Genni
"Ok, try to remember this time Davis, when we first got to the Digi-world we were here for months. We figured every one had given up looking for us. That is until Tai and Agumon were sucked back to the real world after we defeated Etemon. They had found that it was actually still the same day when we had left." explained Izzy
"Hey that's right, I thought we had traveled back in time." said Tai
"Yeah, can I finish Tai." stated Izzy angrily.
"Oh, sorry Izzy" apologized Tai as Izzy stared him down.
"Anyway, that event showed us that time went a lot faster in the Digi-world than in the real world." said Izzy
"I don't understand Izzy, I thought that time flowed the same speed in both worlds." said Ken sounding very confused.
"Well it is now, but it wasn't until after we defeated Apocalymon and then when the digiworld was restored. Genni actually told us that the time in both worlds had synchronized and that we had to leave the digiworld or we would be stuck here forever. We were sad that we had to leave our friends but we had no choice and we thought we would never see them again. That is until last year." finished Izzy
"That's when I caused all that trouble as the Digimon Emperor." said Ken as he remembered his past.
"Don't talk like that Ken it wasn't your fault. You were only being controlled by something evil, you weren't really evil." reminded Wormmon
"That's right." said Yolie agreeing
"Yeah." said Cody also agreeing.
"Thanks guys." said Ken with a smirk.
"Yes, do you understand everything now Davis?" asked Genni
"I guess so." replied Davis still looking confused.
"Very well then may I continue telling about the legend on the scroll that I found?" asked Genni
Everyone, digimon and human alike was eager to hear more about this legend.
"The legend goes like this," started Genni, "Very near the beginning of digital time much evil existed, four humans were chosen to help protect it. They were given digivice and digimon but they themselves were also given great powers to fight the evils. They were known as the Digital Guardians, and they protected the digital world for several thousand until a dark and very evil digimon came. They battled hard but it was even to much for them, it had cast them into a deep sleep and just as it was about to destroy them powerful digimon that they had helped in the past came and distracted this evil digimon while the smaller digimon helped get them away from the battle field. The digimon tried all that they could think of to awaken the Guardians but with no success. So they placed them in containers that would hide their powers and hid them away deep within a mountain so that evil would not have a chance to destroy them. Also a series of obstacles were set up to keep being with dark hearts away from the Guardians. A second scroll that was found near this one says that the leader of the Guardians told how they could be awoken before he fell into the sleep. He said 'Only the children of the second coming would have the power and the pureness of hearts to waken us'." finished Genni
The group of children just sat there looking stunned, confused, and in awe of what Genni had just told them. It took several moments before the children and their digimon recover from what they had just been told.
"That's amazing but why tell us about this now, I thought that we took care of all the evil digimon? If it's true we could have used their help back then." said Ken
"Yeah and how come they lived so long?" asked Davis out of turn.
"Davis not now." scolded Kari
"Oh, sorry Kari." Davis said embarrassed.
"Anyway, your right Ken, as far as I know you children and the other digidestined did destroy all of the most powerful evil digimon when you destroyed MaloMyotismon. However, my counterparts and I detected an abnormally large amount of good energy in the digital world." said Genni
"Prodigious!" exclaimed Izzy
"So what exactly are you trying to tell us?" asked Joe
"Did you find them?" asked Mimi with a burst of excitement.
"Yes, we believe we did Mimi. We pinpointed the energy source in the center of Mt. Legend," said Genni as the points to one of the mountains that surround them, "When I went to investigate I discovered a cave that bears the symbols of each of your crests. That is how I knew the part of the legend that spoke of the children referred to you original eight"
"Well I'm sick of sitting around here doing nothing. If these people can help us protect the Digi-world than I say we go find them." exclaimed Davis very excitedly.
"There he goes again." moaned Yolie
"Yeah, trying to impress Kari." said TK explaining what Yolie meant.
"Davis may be trying to impress Kari but I believe we should find them as well. They have been asleep for a very long time and I believe we owe it to them to awaken them. Are you all with me?" asked Genni
"You bet we are Genni." said Izzy as they all nod their heads and agreed.
"Very well then hang on." said Genni as they were all engulfed in a rainbow light. When they emerge they are standing outside the cave that Genni had described with their crest symbols.
"So this is the cave you told us about Genni." stated Kari
"Yes Kari, when I saw your crest symbols I knew that the legend of the scrolls had to be telling the truth about the children of the second coming. After all there was a group of children that came before you to stop an evil very similar to Apocalymon." said Genni
"Well all right all ready, let go!" yelled Davis as he starts to march into the cave.
"Hold on there Davis it could be dangerous." said Tai as he grabs Davis by the shoulder.
"Da .. Dangerous!" Davis repeated and is frozen in his tracks.
"Tai could be right, while the scrolls don't speak of the details of the obstacles it does say that only beings with good hearts can enter safely." said Genni
"Well it should be safe but we should be careful just in case the obstacles are meant for anybody." said Izzy
"Yes but I will go first to make sure that you children are save." says Genni
"Well then by all means, lead on." said Izzy as he motions toward the cave and Genni enters.
As they entered the cave they saw that it was actually a very long tunnel with writings and drawings on the walls. The pictures were of ancient digimon fighting other digimon and what looked like a map.
"Hey Genni do you know what all of this writing is about?" asked Kari
"Perhaps, if I am translating it correctly it is the history and story of the Guardians in the legend. But I cannot be entirely sure. It is written in a mixture of ancient Japanese and a strange variation of what appears to be modern Chinese." said Genni
"So are these digimon the Guardian's digimon?" asked Yolie pointing out four different digimon on the wall.
"No, according to this part of the history they were known as the Protectors. But I have never heard of them or seen any mention of them in the ancient texts." said Genni still studying the writing.
"Well from the looks of these pictures they were fighting evil digimon to." said Ken
"Wait a minute! Genni could these be the digimon from the scrolls that saved the Guardians?" asked TK
"They could very well be. But for now I believe we should continue down the tunnel." said Genni as he began walking again.
As they continued down the tunnel they saw more of the Guardians story written down and also displayed in the many images that accompanied them. When they got to the end of the tunnel they were not very happy with what they found.
"Oh man, you mean we came all this way for a dead end!" Davis complained
"Maybe not Davis." said Genni as he examines the wall.
"What did you find Genni?" asked Ken
"There are eight holes on this wall in the shape of a circle with lines connecting them in the center. Each hole also has the image of a crest next to it." said Genni as he tried to point them out in the dark tunnel.
"Kari, TK look, your digivice's are glowing!" yelled Gatomon catching everyone's attention.
"Look, Tai and the others are glowing to, but none of us newer kids digivice's are." said Yolie
Just as she finished beams of light shot out of the digivice's and went strait into the holes with the child's corresponding crest symbol.
"What's going on?" asked Davis
"I believe the power of the digivice's is needed for us to go beyond this point." explained Genni
"Look!" yelled Cody
"The light is moving down those lines to the center." said Ken
"Everyone shield your eyes." said Genni just as the area is filled with a very bright light.
"Look, the wall is gone." said Izzy as he turns his head back.
"Yes and it has revealed a room." said Genni
"Hey look, four metal boxes." said Davis pointing into the room.
"I think they're more than just boxes Davis." said Izzy, "They have glass tops and what looks like places for our digivice's."
"Your right Izzy," said Tai, "they are places for our digivice's, and look inside, each box has a human and digimon in it."
"So these must be the Guardians." said Sora, "Oh wait a minute look, they each have tags and crests like we used to have."
"Your right Sora they do have tags and crests, but I have never seen the symbols on them before." said Genni
"Hey Tai look at this." said Agumon standing next to one of the boxes.
"What is it Agumon?" asked Tai
"This hole for the digivice has your crest symbol in it." said Agumon
"Your right Agumon, and the one next to it has the crest of Light." replied Tai
"Then your two digivice's must go in those places." said Yolie
"Well how about it Kari?" asked Tai
"I'm Ready if you are big brother." replied Kari
"Well all right, lets do it." said Tai
As they place their digivice's into the slots they started to glow with pink and orange light.
"Wow! That's amazing." said Mimi
"Ah! Look the glass is disappearing." said frightened old Joe
"Calm down Joe." said Matt
Just as the glass disappeared the light of the digivice's flashed and filled the room causing everyone to shield their eyes again. Then just as suddenly as the light had come it left and they heard a groan coming from the box.
"What was that?" asked Yolie as they all try to take a peak into the box. Just as the person inside sat up.
"Ah!" yelled all the children and digimon
"Thank-you children for awakening me." said the strange human.
"Who are you" asked Genni
"Oh, of course allow me to introduce my self," he said as he climbed out of the box, "my name is Nathan, I am one of the four Digital Guardians chosen to protect the digital world."
He stood about six foot tall, with brown hair, green eyes, a light tan, and light muscles. He wore a white short sleeve t-shirt tucked into his blue jeans with a black belt around his waist.
"Well Genni I'd say this proves that your legend was true." said Izzy
"Your right Izzy, but he has introduce himself and we should do the same." said Genni
"Please I already know that you children must be the digidestined that were foretold," said Nathan, " and that you my good fellow must be one of the people who helped to choose the original digidestined. However, I do suppose it would help to know your names."
"You are right I did help choose the digidestined. My name is Genni and these children are Davis, Ken, Cody, and Yolie. They are some of the newer digidestined." said Genni introducing himself and some of the others.
"I'm Tai and this is Matt, Sora, Mimi, Izzy, and Joe." introduced Tai
"And I'm Kari, Tai's younger sister, and this is TK, Matt's brother," said Kari, "The power of me and Tai's digivice's was what woke you up."
"And for that I will be forever grateful." said Nathan
"Hey could you keep it down out there" said another voice from the box.
"Oh sorry, I forgot you were in there." said Nathan as he looked into the box.
"No problem." said the voice as it jumped out of the box to reveal the digimon behind it.
The digimon stood about half as tall as Nathan. He was covered in brown fur and had a small trunk and two tusks sticking out of his face, and a silver metal ring around his right ankle.
"Hey, he looks like the Tapirmon that we met at Digitamamon's Chinese restaurant." said Davis
"Sorry Davis this guy's name is Tunskmon. He's a lot like Tapirmon except he actually has legs and the only metal he has is his ankle ring. His attack is Tunsk Blast, which he shoots out of his trunk." explained Nathan
"Hey Nathan where are the others?" asks Tunskmon
"Oh yeah, Children do you think you could help our friends the same way you helped us?" asked Nathan
"Sure." they all said
"Well then, the six others of you with crests should.." started Nathan
"Wait Nathan they don't have crests." Tunskmon pointed out.
"I don't understand. Only the children with the crests could awaken us
"We did have crests and we can explain why we don't have them now." said Izzy
"This is true, one day I had called them back to the digital world and told them that they had to release the power of their crests in order to protect the digital world." explained Genni
"Oh, I'm sorry for doubting that you were the digidestined. I am still a little jumpy from our last battle." said Nathan
"No problem we all get confused some times, right Davis." said Matt
"What's that suppose to mean!" Davis yelled
"Just forget it Davis." said Tai
"I see Davis isn't good at taking jokes." said Nathan
Every one laughs while Davis stands there with his face getting redder.
"Well now that that's settled maybe you could wake up my friends?" asked Nathan again.
"Okay but I have a question first." said TK
"Yes TK." said Nathan
"How come you and your friends have tags and crests. I thought only we did?" asked TK
"Yeah, and how come your digivices are a different color than ours.?" asked Izzy getting into the questioning mood.
"I should have known that you would have questions. But, I suppose I should start form the beginning." said Nathan as he snapped his fingers and a screen was uncovered on one of the walls of the cave.
"Wow!" exclaimed Mimi in here usual amazed voice.
"What's the screen for?" asked Izzy
"This screen will show you images of what I am about to tell you. So please relax as I tell you, me and the other Guardians story, of how we came to be." said Nathan, "Ages ago their existed four being that worked to protect the balance of the digital world. However, they found that they could not do it alone. So they created four powerful digimon that were given specific jobs to help protect the digital world. They were known as the Protectors, the first of which was called Sundramon. She is easily recognized, not just by the fact that she appears human, but by the image of the sun that is emblazoned on her forehead. She was known as the Protector of Goodness, because she would protect any being with good in their hearts. Next is Watchdramon, with the body of a giant eagle she has dominance over the skies. The image of the eye on her chest is used to emit her most powerful attack, while the third eye on her head allows her to see any foreign presence within another. For this reason she was known as the Watcher of Evil for her constant surveillance of the powers of darkness. The third is Gatedramon, he is a stone grey human looking digimon with the image of a gate on his chest. His most powerful ability is being able to control the Digi-Ports and literally be able to close them completely. He is also able to open a digital gate from any point in the digital world to any point in the real world and vice versa, these reasons are why he is called the Protector of the Gate. The fourth and most powerful of the group is Timedramon. His humanoid body gives him great agility, and with the nose and ears of a fox he has a great sense of smell and hearing. He has golden fur that flows over his body and down to his tail. The clock images on the back of his hands allow him to manipulate and even travel through time, making him known as the Protector of Time."
"So what happened, were they destroyed?" asked Yolie
"Yeah they sound really tough." stated Davis
"No they weren't destroyed." said Nathan
"Then why were you and your friends chosen to become the Guardians?" asked Genni
"I will explain, however, this is where it can get confusing so be sure to ask if you have any questions," said Nathan, "One of the ancients had a vision of what the future would look like if no further action was taken to prevent it. So the ancient ones gave Timedramon instructions to search across time and bring back four humans with good hearts to help protect the Digital World."
"Wow so dose that mean you're from the future or the past?" asked Mimi
"The future actually." replied Nathan
"Prodigious, how far from the future?" asked Izzy
"About 50 years," replied Nathan, "However it was not a very pleasant future."
"What do you mean?" asked Kari
"Believe me it was not very nice, and I'd like to explain further but first I need to know how much you children know about the time line?" asked Nathan
"You mean how time flows from the past to the future right." replied Izzy
"In a sense yes," said Nathan, "your right Izzy, time does flow from past to the future, but it is also like a pool of water. If anything happens to any part of the pool, it affects the entire pool like a ripple across the surface."
"So do you mean that when you were chosen you changed time?" asked Ken
"Yes," replied Nathan," going back to the time line illustration, we were brought from a future part of the line to a past part of the line. If we hadn't been brought back, even today the real world would be under constant attack by dark digital forces."
"So you're saying that if you hadn't changed time both worlds would be devastated." stated Genni
"Exactly, and if you allow me to continue my story I will explain how the world was." said Nathan
"Please continue your story." said Genni
"Alright, keep watching the screen," said Nathan. The image of a devastated city appeared on the screen, "The year was 2056, the real world had been under attack since the year 1985. This is 5 years after what the GDA decided was the creation of the digital world."
"What's the GDA?" asked Kari
"Oh sorry. GDA stands for the Global Digital Alliance, an organization formed in May of 1993 to organize the fight against the dark digital forces that were attacking the real world," explained Nathan, "You see the GDA, or Alliance as it was also called, was able to organize all the digidestined around the world to help in the fight. They also devoted large amounts of their resources into researching weapons and equipment to help defend the Earth, they also were always working to develop technology for early detection of evil digimon. And now were me and my friends come in, you see their were a great deal more digidestined in the world than their are now, but most people around the world still helped to fight by giving information about the digimon or their locations. You see my friends and I weren't digidestined, we were the ones who helped in the info area, and we were all born and raised in the United States. The American government and military were one of the few organizations able to stand up to the digimon when they first started to appear. They also played a large role in the creation of the Alliance into a global force. As I said, we were information gatherers and we all started our careers by working for the local branches of the alliance. We all wished that we were digidestined, but since we weren't we all decided to help by joining the alliance. Keep in mind we were all from different parts of the country and so we each had our own special abilities and expertise, I was from the North, more specifically from Milton, Michigan in the western part of the state. It's a small town that lies along one of the state's highways. Oh, by the way my last name is Pepper. Erin James comes from southern Atlanta, Georgia. Growing up in the big city she was very close to much of the action when she was young and she developed many fighting skills. Ken Blaze grew up in LA and roamed the streets doing what good he could. Of course he really lived up to his name when he took off fast on his motorcycle leaving a trail of fire behind him. And Jen Donel grew up on a large cattle ranch in South Texas. She ran most of her operations for the Alliance from the ranch after she inherited it. Over the years of working for the GDA we all met occasionally and formed friendships over the many assignments we shared. As the years went on our workloads decreased and we went back to the way our lives were before the Alliance. It was in 2053 when what was believed to be the dark forces last efforts to over take the real world. Hordes of evil digimon appeared in the real world attacking anyone or thing they saw. As I said we had all gone about with our lives outside of the Alliance and so we could do nothing. The Alliance fought bravely but had many loses. Many of their leaders were lost and they began to loose more of the fights. Finally, in January of 2056 they came to us, we had been known for having much knowledge about digimon so they asked us to take the lead of the fight. We accepted and we began to win battles again, however, we knew we would not be able to win the war without a miracle. Then six months later our miracle happened. We were in a meeting with the few generals that we had left when Timedramon appeared, he told us how he had been sent to bring four humans back with him to help stop all of the destruction that had occurred. He said that he had been watching us for some time and that we were whom he must bring back, but that he would give us one day to let us decide. He said he would meet us back in that room tomorrow and then he disappeared. We ended the meeting and all went to think about what to do. We all decided that we had to go with Timedramon to save every one we knew. It was hard for us to come to this decision but we knew we had to go. As we waited in the room for Timedramon the building we were in came under attack. However, lucky for us Timedramon got us out of there just as the digimon were breaking into the room we were in."
"So you barely got out." stated Genni
"Exactly." said Nathan
"So what happened when you got out?" asked Kari
"You see Timedramon opened up a time hole and we all ran into it. We found ourselves falling through the hole for what seemed like hours. When we finally came out we found ourselves inside a cave with four glowing orbs hovering over four pedestals." said Nathan
"The ancient ones?" asked Yolie
"Yes, but they were not called that back then," explained Nathan, "Timedramon had brought us back to very near the beginning of digital time. They were known as the Digi-Spheres and they represented the elements of earth, fire, wind, and water. They represented these four elements because the elements represented all that is needed for life. Anyway, they told us that they would have to change us, not just make us young again but to extend our life span greatly and give us many abilities that exceed that of normal humans. They told us that these new abilities would develop as we stayed in the digital world. Then they gave us our digivices, tags and crests, and our digimon. We were told that the golden digivices contained power that far exceeded that of a regular digivice and that we would have to discover them for ourselves. And now for our crests, sorry it took so long TK, I was given the crest of Energy represented by a circle with eight lightning bolts coming out of it. Erin was given the crest of Loyalty, represented by a shield with two crescent moons at its top corners. Jen was given the crest of Clarity, represented by the shape of a water droplet and a small diamond at the top. Ken was given the crest of Peace, represented by a squared frame that extends on the corners to form small crosses and four circles on the sides. And so given our new abilities we went to work to protect the digital and defeat the evil that threatened both worlds.
"Wow! Now that's a story." said Davis
"But if you were so good then what digimon was so powerful that it could beat you?" asked Cody
"It was Apocalymon." said Nathan
"No way!" exclaimed Matt
"But if you couldn't beat him then how could we?" asked Tai
"Because it was known through out the digital world that only the children with the crests of Courage, Friendship, Love, Reliability, Knowledge, Sincerity, Hope, and Light would be able to defeat the ultimate evil that would try to destroy both worlds. You see we didn't know that Apocalymon was the evil that was foretold, but even if we had we still would have fought him, after all we swore to fight all evil no matter what the cost," explained Nathan, "are there any more questions?"
"I have one." said Cody
"Yes Cody." said Nathan
"How come all of your crests have a circle and a curved line in them?" asked Cody
"Good question. The line represents the balance of good and evil. The circle above the line represents the sun and the powers of goodness, and the curve in the line represents evils attempts to try to over come good, but just as the sun is out of reach so are the powers of goodness." finished Nathan
In the shadows of the tunnel lurk two figures. The first is completely unaware of the second and is staring directly at the group of humans. The second watching both the humans and the other figure. Then the first figure attacked.
Then from the shadows came the attack.
"Twin Sickles" yelled a Snimon (the first digimon)
"What was that!" screamed Yolie
"It's headed right for us!" said Davis
"Look out! Wolf Blast," came an attack from a wolf looking digimon, "Nathan quickly reawaken your friends, I will take care of Snimon."
"Wolfmon, what's going on?" Nathan asked
"The dark forces know you have been awakened and are approaching the mountain. I must go now." Wolfmon said as he tuned and ran back down the tunnel after the Snimon
"Who was that guy?" asks Davis
"That was Wolfmon, I've heard he's a very loyal and cunning digimon. He may look mean with the body of a grey wolf, but he's always fighting evil. But no ones seen one of his kind in ages." explained Tentomon
"If what Wolfmon said was true he will need some help," said Nathan thinking out loud, "Davis, Yolie, Cody, Ken please go and help Wolfmon until we can come and join you."
"But why do we .." Davis started but got Yolie's hand over his mouth.
"Davis will you quit thinking about yourself." said Yolie
"Don't worry we'll take care of everything." said Ken as he and the others ran out of the room dragging Davis behind and their digimon running ahead.
"There's no time to loose, please awaken my friends." said Nathan
"All right." they all said.
"Thank-you, now find the slots with your corresponding crest symbols and place your digivices into the slots." explained Nathan
"But what do we do?" asked Tai
"Yeah our digivices were used to wake up you?" asked Kari
"I know. I just want you here incase," said Nathan as he turned to the others, "everyone ready?"
"Yeah!" the others said.
"Then do it." said Tunskmon and the other chambers started glowing as they placed their digivices in the slots. Then the other humans and digimon in the containers sat up and got out of the chambers.
"Nathan what's going on?" asked a girl with long sandy brown hair that came to the middle of her back, deep blue eyes, and tan skin. She had on long blue jeans and a black belt with a short sleeved red t-shirt.
"Trouble Erin." replied Nathan
"What kind of trouble?" asked the other girl with shoulder length fire red hair, the same blue eyes as Erin's, and darkly tanned skin. She had on Black jeans, a navy blue t-shirt, and a white belt.
"The usual kind Jen." replied Nathan
"You know we're with you." said the other boy in black jeans, black t- shirt, and a white belt. He stood a little taller than Nathan, his skin was the same color but he had more muscles, with jet-black hair and emerald green eyes.
"I know Ken," said Nathan, "Now children go and help your friends, we'll be there in a moment."
"Don't worry, we'll hold them off for now." said Tai as they all ran down the tunnel.
"What do I do?" asked Genni
Stay here if you want just don't get in our way," said Nathan, "Erin go and get the bases power core back online."
Meanwhile outside...
"Fire Rocket"
"Gold Rush"
"Man where are all of these Woodmon coming form." moaned Davis
"Who cares where they're coming from," said Yolie, "Why are they attacking us?"
"Something must be controlling them." said Cody
Then they all heard a loud thud as a giant tree digimon and several Blossomon appeared.
"Oh no we can't beat all of them." yelled Ken
"Don't worry help has arrived," yelled Matt as he and the others came out of the cave, "Are you ready Gabumon?'
"You bet, Gabumon digivolve to ... , it isn't working Matt."
"None of our digimon can digivolve." said Tai
"Kari it looks like armor digivolving is still working." pointed out Gatomon as she saw her friends fighting.
"All right," said Kari, "Digi Armor Energize!"
"Patamon's going too, Digi Armor Energize!" yelled TK
"Gatomon Armor digivolve to ... Nefertimon, The Angel of Light!"
"Patamon Armor digivolve to ... Pegasusmon, Flying Hope!"
"That's good, but two more armor digimon isn't going to be enough," said Sora, "and besides what's that big tree thing anyway?"
"That's RedWoodmon." came a soft little voice.
"Who was that?" asked Mimi
"Just my dorky little sister." came another voice not quite as soft.
"Hey watch it Hareiormon, I'm just as good as you." said the first voice as two little rabbit like digimon came out of the bushes. They were both a light brown color with white fronts. They were walking on two legs and had long ears that stood strait in the air.
"That's Hareiormon and LadyHareiormon. They share looks as well as attacks. Their attacks are Hare Thump and Hair Twister," exclaimed Wolfmon who had almost been forgotten in all the fighting, "But you can't be the same Hareiormon that I fought with so many years ago."
"That was our Dad." said LadyHareiormon
"He talks about you a lot," said Hareiormon, "but the Digi-Spheres sent us to this time to help fight and to tell you that RedWoodmon was sent by the Dark Ocean."
"Do you have the same ability as your father?" asked Wolfmon
"Yeah!" replied the two
"Good, you two help the children hold off the Woodmon and Blossomon. I'll hold off RedWoodmon until Nathan and the other Guardians get here." ordered Wolfmon
"But you guys are only rookies. What can you do?" asked Yolie
"Just stand back and see." said Wolfmon as he, Hareiormon, and LadyHareiormon started glowing.
"Hey Izzy doesn't glowing usually mean ..." started Davis
"Digivolving!" finished Izzy
"Now, Wolfmon digivolve to ... Werewolfmon!"
"Hareiormon digivolve to ... Rabberiormon!"
"LadyHareiormon digivolve to ... LadyRabberiormon!"
"That's Werewolfmon. He looks a lot like WereGarurumon, he has his body except for he has the same fur as Wolfmon and he still has Wolfmon's head. His attacks are Were Claw and Werewolf Blast." explained Izzy
"And I am Rabberiormon and this is my companion LadyRabberiormon. As with our previous forms our looks and attacks our shared. We use our Rabbit Kick to knock our enemies off balance and finish them off with our Rabb Cannon!"
Both of them looked like they had just had a growth sprit. Their ears were slicked back, they had visors over their eyes, and they had large rotary guns for their left hand.
"But how can they digivolve?" asked Mimi
"Who cares, but even Werewolfmon won't be enough to beat RedWoodmon." said Izzy
"You think I'm done yet." Werewolfmon said and started glowing again.
"Werewolfmon digivolve to ... Saberwolfmon!"
Werewolfmon's fur grew shaggy, he had two spiked sashes forming an X across his chest. Both hands had extended claws and he had a large dagger in a sheath at his right side.
"Izzy who is that?" asked Davis
"Just give me a second I'm checking." said Izzy typing frantically on his computer "Whoa, that's Saberwolfmon, an Ultimate warrior beast digimon. His main attacks are Saberwolf Blast and Saber Claw, but for his most powerful attack he uses his sword in his Wolf Slash."
"Wow he looks pretty tough for an Ultimate," said Kari, "you can take that tree Saberwolfmon!"
"Thanks for the vote of confidence," said Saberwolfmon as he turned, "and now as for you RedWoodmon."
"Please do you actually think that you can beat me? I am a Mega after all, now allow me to fully introduce myself," said RedWoodmon, "I am RedWoodmon, a Mega level dark forest digimon. My attacks are Red Leaf Pelter and Bark Shards. I have only one purpose, to destroy the forces of good."
"Do you really think I would let that happen." sneered Saberwolfmon
"You are no match for me. Ha ha ha." laughed RedWoodmon
"He's Right, he has to be at least 20 feet tall," said Yolie as the ground began to shake, "Now what!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the mountain they had been in earlier just in time to see it split down the middle and a gigantic floating object came out. It was shaped like a square box with rounded edges, it was white in color and on each of the four sides were the four of the Guardians crest symbols.
"Their not alone RedWoodmon!" Came a voice from atop the object.
"It's Nathan!" yelled the children
"I said we'd be here. RedWoodmon, Saberwolfmon isn't alone. You ready Tunskmon?" asked Nathan
"Ready!" said Tunskmon
"All right!" said Nathan as his digivice glowed and Tunskmon jumped of the object.
"Tunskmon, warp digivolve to ... TransMammothmon!"
"I am TransMammothmon, the Mega form of Tunskmon. This is the only of my forms in which I have armor, my attacks are Tusk Missiles and Blizzard Blast, Which will freeze you in your tracks RedWoodmon."
He was as tall as RedWoodmon. His body was like a Mammoth WarGreymon but without the claws and more armor. He had large hands and a Mammoth head with tusks and trunk.
"We'll see about that, Bark Shards!" said RedWoodmon
"I'll show you my power, Blizzard Blast!" called TransMammothmon as a blast of blue and white came right out of his trunk
"Me to, Wolf Slash." said Saberwolfmon as the three began a colossal fight.
"Our turn now." said the Gotsumon that belonged to Ken Blaze
"We'll help with the Woodmon!" said the Starmon that belonged to Jen
"You bet!" said the Floramon that belonged to Erin
"Gotsumon digivolve to ... Monochromon!"
"Floramon digivolve to ... Kiwimon!"
"Try this Woodmon, Vulcanic Strike!" said Monochromon
"Don't leave me out, Pummel Peck!" said Kiwimon
"Or me, Meteor Stream!" said Starmon
"And now it's our turn." said Nathan
"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Tai
"Just watch Tai, are you guys ready? I think it's time to trim some Blossomon." said Nathan
They all took out their digivices and held them in front of them with their left hands.
"Guardian Blades," the four Guardians yelled as beams of light shot into the air. As they came down they turned into swords that the Guardians caught with their right hands, "Crest Armor Activate!"
Their crests began to glow and the glow spread across the chest, to the front of their legs, and around the arms. The glow turned into gold armor with their crest symbols on the chest plate.
"Wow that's cool!" said Mimi
"Cool, that's amazing!" said Izzy, "I've got to look this up on my computer."
"For get your computer Izzy, look what their doing now." said Tai
"Wow, are they flying?" asked Izzy looking up.
"Yeah, right at those Blossomon." said Matt
"Block this Blossomon." Nathan said as he and the others flew past the Blossomon cutting off several vines.
"My vines! You will pay for that humans." said a Blossomon.
"Thorn Whips!"
"Oh no, their hit!" said Yolie
"Nathan, Ken and Jen are out cold." said Erin
"That's it. You ready Erin?" asked Nathan putting his sword away at his side.
"Ready Nathan." replied Erin putting away her sword.
"Why did they put away their swords?" asked Cody
"That's why, Look!" said Ken Ichijouji as he points to their arms, which the armor had suddenly, heightened to form cannons on top
"Guardian Blaster!" Nathan and Erin yelled as they fired large blasts of energy at the Blosemmon making them fly miles away.
"Erin go check on Ken and Jen. TransMammothmon, Saberwolfmon how are you doing?" asked Nathan
"Not Good. Ah .." TransMammothmon yelled as he was thrown back and dedigivolved back to Tunskmon.
"Tunskmon, hold on." said Nathan moving almost instantly from where he was to 50 feet away to catch Tunskmon in his arms.
"This isn't good." said Mimi
"No kidding, our digimon can't digivolve and our only mega just got knocked out." said Joe
"Way to state the obvious Joe!" said Matt
"Now to finish you off," said RedWoodmon, "Red Leaf .."
"Temporal Disruptor"
"Solar Strike"
The two attacks came out of nowhere and knocked RedWoodmon over.
"What was that?" asked Davis Finally saying something again.
"It's about time you got hear Timedramon." stated Saberwolfmon
"Sorry, we were a little held up." said the newly arrived Timedramon
"With what, we've been here bustin our .." started Lady Rabberiormon
"Cool it sis'! RedWoodmon was sent by the Dark Ocean, you have to destroy him Timedramon." explained Rabberiormon
"I understand," said Timedramon, "Gatedramon!"
"Way ahead of you pal," said Gatedramon, "Gate Freeze!"
A beam of light came down and surrounded RedWoodmon freezing him in place.
"Our turn, Temporal Disruptor!" said Timedramon
"I'm in, Sun Star!" said Sundramon as she formed a gold star above her head and then threw it right at RedWoodmon .
"Don't forget about me, Eye Beam!" said Watchdramon as a gigantic beam of energy shot out of the eye image on her chest.
"Ha! Your freeze wore off Gate.. What! Ahhh!" yelled RedWoodmon as the attacks hit him and he became Digi-Dust.
"All right, they did it." said TK as all the digimon dedigivolved.
"Woe what happened?" asked Woodmon
"Yeah, last thing I remember we were in the forest." said another Woodmon.
"You were being controlled, but your free now." explained Kari
"Gee, Thanks." said a Woodmon as they went back to the forest.
"Well, there they go." said Tai
"Are you children okay?" asked Timedramon
"Yeah, and you guys were great." said Yolie
"You weren't bad yourselves. said Nathan
"Nathan! Are they going to be alright?" asked Kari when she saw Nathan and Erin helping Ken and Jen walk toward them.
"We'll be okay as soon as we get back to the base." said Jen
"Base?" questioned Tai
"That air ship up there." explained Erin
"Speaking of the ship, said Ken looking up, "Hey Genni quit snooping around and get down here."
"I wasn't snooping." said Genni as he came out of his rainbow transport.
"How did he hear you?" asked Cody
"Their are screens all over the ship that monitor events. I knew he would have to be near enough to one to hear me." explained Ken
"Anyway, from what Hareiormon has said we have bigger problems. I think you children should go home." said Nathan
"But we want to stay and help." said Davis
"Yeah!" said the children and digimon.
"I'm glad to hear it, but it is nearly nightfall and your families will worry about you," said Nathan, "Unfortunately the Dark Ocean has begun making moves against the Digital World."
"Wait! Are you saying the Dark Ocean is alive?" asked Ken Ichijouji
"In a sense." said Nathan
"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Davis
"The Dark Ocean is similar to the Digital World, after all, the Digital World choose all of you to be digidestined." said Nathan
"But I thought that Genni and his friends did that?" asked Sora
"Well, Genni is a part of the digital world isn't he!" stated Erin
"Tai. We should get going or mom's going to worry." said Kari
"Yeah my parents will worry too if I'm not home on time." said Ken Ichijouji
"Then you all should go. If we need your help we'll contact you." said Nathan
"Okay and you can count on us being back." said Yolie
"And if you ever need help we'll be there." said Erin
"Thanks," said Davis, "Is every body ready, Digi-Port Open."
They were all sucked into the Digi-Port along with Veemon, Hawkmon, Armadillomon, Wormmon, Patamon, and Gatomon.
"You know Nathan, I only hope all our powers are enough to save the digital world." said Ken
What other powers do these Guardians have and is the Dark Ocean really alive? Find out next time on Digimon:The Digital Guardians