A Digimon Frontier Fanfic

By Haru Glory

A/N: Thanks for the reviews everyone, I now have 167! I'm really greatful for your support! Also, sorry for the typos I made in the last chapters, I can't say if there are still some here, but I am doing my best to keep them to a minimum and even not make any typos, so please bear with me. Well, enough about that, here's the 28th chapter, hope you guys liked it!

Chronicles of Time: Of What the Future Brings

Chapter 28: Snow Covered Frontier: A City on the Abyss!

It must have been hours since Flamon fell asleep, it was hard to tell since it was dark everywhere, except the places that the Ultimagi's light touches. Nevertheless, Zoe was already begun to stir awake.

"Where...am I?" Zoe asked herself, "And what happened?"

Zoe began to scan her surroundings for the first time, and she was surprised to see Flamon sleeping beside her...

"Flamon!?" Zoe asked, surprised, "What's going on?"

Zoe then realized something; she was wearing the Ultimagi...

"What...?" Zoe said, "Why the heck am I the one who's wearing this?"

Zoe was making such a racket that it woke Flamon up...

"Zoe, what's with the racket?" Flamon asked drowsily.

"How could you ask that?" Zoe replied, "What happened to you? Why did you turn into Flamon and why am I wearing the Ultimagi."

"Huh?" answered Flamon, "Oh, that...well, we're kinda in a pinch right now Zoe."

"What are you talking about?" Zoe asked.

"Look, we fell from the Data Line, remember?" Flamon replied, "And you can't guess what the Crescent Abyss looks like."

"Crescent Abyss?" Zoe asked, "We're at the Crescent Abyss?"

"Uh-huh." Nodded Flamon, "Anyways, if I didn't lent you the Ultimagi you would have been frozen to death right now."

"Frozen?" Zoe asked, "What on earth are you talking about Takuya? It's warm here."

"That's because of the heat energy that the Ultimagi is giving off. C'mon," Said Flamon as he stood up and led Zoe towards the caves opening, and with the light of the Ultimagi, showed her what their surroundings looked like, "See what I mean, the snow here is thick and the wind is colder than cold. Since I lent you the Ultimagi, I've almost frozen myself, that's why I decided to digi-volve, that way it'll keep me warm."

"What are we going to do then?" Zoe asked, "Do you think there's a way back to the surface?"

"Maybe, you're feeling all right now, Zoe right?" Flamon replied.

"Why?" Zoe asked, "I should be the one asking you that."

"I'm fine," Flamon replied, "except for the fact that I'm Flamon right now...so?"

"I'm good." Replied Zoe.

"Great!" Flamon said, "Since you won't be feeling the freezing weather, it'll be alright for us to look for a way out, out there."

"But it's dark." Zoe replied.

"We'll be able to see our way with the use of the light that the Ultimagi is giving off." Flamon said, "Don't worry, but I do suggest that if we get attack, don't digi-volve."

"What!?" Zoe asked surprised, "why not?"

"Because, I don't know if the Ultimagi will still keep you warm when you digi-volve. I can't risk you freezing on me." Flamon replied, "So leave the fighting to the digimon...that's me."

"I doubt you'll be able to defeat a strong opponent using Flamon." Zoe said.

"Trust me on this one Zoe." Flamon said, "So, you ready?"

Zoe nodded, and then asked, "So, how are we going to get down from here?"

"No problem." Flamon said, "We'll climb down."

"Climb...down?" Zoe asked, a sweat drop forming on her face. "You're not serious, are you?"

"Hmmm?" Flamon asked, as he stopped just when he was about to climb down, "What makes you think I'm not serious?"

"You've got to be kidding me, Flamon!" Zoe shouted, "Have you any idea how high above we are? It'll take all our strength just to climb down from this cave."

Flamon blinked a couple of times and looked over the entrance to where he could see a silhouette of the ground. True enough, it was very, very high from where he was standing.

"I must have forgotten how high I flew to get us up here." Flamon thought with a gulp.

"I guess it can't be helped." Flamon said as he took out the D-Tector.

"What are you going to do?" Zoe asked.

"I still have enough energy for one evolution." Flamon replied, "It would just be for a while, I'll fly both of us down and..."

"No!" Zoe cut in, "I won't let you do that. Have you forgotten about the virus?"

"How could I forget?" Flamon asked, "I'm Flamon right now...that's kinda hard to do. Besides, I'm already Flamon, what's the worst that can happen."

"But..." Zoe was about to argue but Flamon has already evolved to Burning Greymon.

"Too late now, Zoe." Burning Greymon said.

"You really are a hard-headed goggle-head..." Zoe sighed.

If it was the human Takuya that was standing in front of her, she could have guessed that he would be grinning. Burning Greymon didn't waste anymore time, he immediately lifted Zoe up and flew down.

Right after he did, he dedigi-volved back to Flamon.

"See, it's as fast as that." Flamon said.

"...And you were the one who said we had to climb down from up there." Zoe said, then she asked a question, "Why didn't you just fly up towards the surface?"

"I won't be able to do that." Flamon said, "The wind's too strong and it's very humid it's hard to fly. Not to mention darkness is everywhere. I can only see in a very close distance thanks to that relic."

"So...where do we go from here?" Zoe asked.

Flamon looked around, but it was still dark everywhere. So, he took a wild guess on which path – north or south, is the very best way to go. And he chose the northern path.

They weren't given much of a choice. So on they both walked against the strong current of the wind northwards.

Everywhere they look and no matter how far they walked, there was snow everywhere and darkness continued to loom over them.

It seemed as if they had been walking for three hours, when they finally saw something apart from darkness and the falling snow (thanks to the light of the Ultimagi still).

"What's that over there?" Flamon asked pointing over a large silhouette.

"I hope it's not an enemy." Zoe said.

"Yeah." Flamon nodded.

"Are we going to go on forward?" Zoe asked.

Takuya nodded, "It's just like what they always say, right? The only way to live is by going on forward...no matter what situation we are in."

"Then I just hope we really live after all this." Zoe said.

"Don't worry about that." Flamon said, "I have a very strong feeling that we will...and our future won't be that bad."

This made Zoe confused, but she dismissed this confusion soon afterwards as Flamon began to walk forward and telling her to follow him and to stay close behind.

They were relieved, however, at what they saw...

"It can't be...?!" Zoe said.

"But...it's not just our imagination right?" Flamon asked.

"I hope it's not." Zoe replied.

"But how could such a city survive in this weather?" Flamon asked.

"I don't really care at all, Flamon." Zoe replied, "Let's just find some place to stay...some place that's warm enough so that I could return the Ultimagi to you and you can change back to Takuya."

"Alright then..." Flamon nodded.

And so they began to make their way inside the City...not knowing if it would be safe for them to do so or not.

To be continued...

A/N: A city in a place where life is impossible? Well, how could that happen? You guys are up for a little surprise in the next chapter (which still features Takuya and Zoe). Well, I have really limited time today, so until then, this is Haru Glory, saying "PEACE" and signing out! Don't forget to review minna-san! See yah!