A Digimon Frontier Fanfic
By Haru Glory
A/N: Okay, here's the 41st chapter guys. Well, unfortunately, I'm not going to tackle here the whole of their training, just little pieces of it. Don't worry though, you guys will understand soon enough why. Anyways, thanks for the reviews again! Well, enough of this, read on...
Chronicles of Time: Of What the Future Brings
Chapter 41: Destination: Real World! Part 1
A lot has passed since then. It was already a week since they last saw each other and began to go their separate ways to train, and only three weeks remaining before the tournament begins. But even so, the spirit shinkers were no longer worried, they have done every training they could under the supervision of Flahma, Liwahg, Ghusto, Yhe, Kidlaht, Lohgu, Gaia, Hyo, Gholia, and Ykhami the guardians of Fire, Light, Wind, Ice, Lightning, Wood, Earth, Water, Metal and Darkness respectively.
Takuya and the others were surprise to see the guardian that they would train against or with. They thought them to be gigantic digimon that was old and could rip them to shreds, but they weren't…except maybe for the last part. Instead of meeting a digimon, they met digi-humans.
"Digi-humans?" Takuya had asked, during their first break since training under her, "I've never heard of a thing during our stay here at the digi-world and that was pretty long."
"Of course you haven't, our existence is known only to a limited few…too few, in fact." Flahma replied, "But what amazes me more than seeing humans who have inherited the spirit of the warrior of fire is seeing TWO humans possess it's power…a power that is not divided into two but a complete power…fascinating."
Flahma was a young woman their age. She had a flaming red hair and auburn eyes. On top of her forehead was the symbol of fire. She has a dignified look that tells how much she knows and how little she fears. Although she might be stern and stiff even at times, one could not help but notice that there is indeed, a soft spot in her. She may pose as a terrible and powerful opponent during their training session, but also a good friend during their break.
Takuya and Katsuya found it very hard to describe her for to really be able to describe her beauty one must look at her first very closely. In fact, if Zoe wasn't Takuya's girl friend, he might have thought that he would have fallen for her.
"Well, you're not the only one surprised." Katsuya said, awed to see that it was a woman who was the guardian of the flames, "We thought we'd be facing against a humongous, old, ugly yet powerful digimon…but the only one that matches you is probably powerful. You're not ugly and you don't seem to be old…you're actually very beautiful."
At that comment, Takuya could not help but laugh, "What's wrong, Katsuya? Don't tell me that you're falling in love with her."
At that Katsuya blushed. "I am not."
"I thank you for your compliment." Flahma said, "But I must tell you immediately that you cannot as your companion says, fall for me. I do not intend to have someone younger than me by a two thousand fifty years as a boyfriend."
At this, Takuya could not help to laugh a little louder, especially when he saw his future son's face, which was now as red as Flahma's hair.
Their thirty minutes rest ended and once again, they came face to face with the different side of Flahma.
This basically continued on for the whole week of training that they had.
Yumi and Zoe's training were a whole lot different from that of the others. It did not only focus on their digimon selves' powers and techniques but their own as well – as humans. Ghusto, who is by the way, male, taught them something else. Something that according to the green-haired youth-looking guardian would surely aid them in the battle that is to come.
Both Yumi and Zoe, of course, did not understand why they had to learn this…something when their human selves would not be fighting in the tournament but their digimon counter parts.
But the wise guardian only had this to say to them, "Digimon or not, you both have and will always be warriors and will always walk in the path that they walk. But remember this…there are many ways to win a war and they do not involve holding a sword or any kind of weapon."
"What is that suppose to mean?" Yumi asked.
"Time will come when what I have thought you and not what I have thought the warriors of Wind, will prove to be very useful…it might not meant to hurt, but even so it WILL be able to help you save whatever it is you wish to save at that time…" Ghusto replied.
"The way you say things," Zoe noticed, "It's as if you know something that will come and you are telling it to us…but not really telling it to us…"
Ghusto smiled, "When you get to reach the age of two thousand and thirty five, you would come to know this things. Enough babble, let us continue with your training."
Koji was the only one in the group who hadn't had a hard time adjusting to the way that his guardian trainer would like him to train.
Liwahg…or Lord Liwahg, as he would like Koji to call him, was an old digi-human who once was a samurai (according to him). Unlike the other guardians, he was perhaps the oldest and most strict of them all. He did not look as young as Koji was like the other guardians, rather he looked like a ragged old geezer. And when Koji voiced this thought out loud of his trainer being an old man…well, let's just say he gave him his first task…fifty push-ups as his human self and another fifty as Lobomon. This taught Koji to keep his thoughts to himself.
Koji, of course, did not mind the fifty push-ups, he was kind of used to it having attended Kendo classes and such, although they never do ask you to give half a hundred push-ups on your first day.
It turns out, that although the old guardian was strict and hot tempered sometimes, he does prove to be a great teacher. And all through the week, Koji had at once developed a liking to his sensei.
"Lord Liwahg?" Koji had asked.
"What is it, my young apprentice?" the digi-human asked.
"Well, I've been wondering about this ever since we arrived here the first time and ever since I fought against my first enemy," Koji began, "Why is it that we have to capture the data of our enemy and let them reborn then? Unlike now, when we have to really…err…kill Chronosmon's generals."
"You are the first one who ever asked me that…except maybe for the guardian of fire, Flahma when she was still young." Liwahg replied, "I have knowledge in both the human world and the digi-world and before I answer your question, let me ask this from you…a human. Your kind has those that kill other humans, correct?"
Koji nodded.
"And you're kind also possesses the law that kills whoever killed a human, correct?" Liwahg asked.
Koji still nodded, "They say it was to frighten whoever is doing those things and other people to stop doing it."
"And did they stop?" the digi-human asked.
"No." Koji replied, "Nothing like that happened."
"A creature always has the right and the will to choose between good and evil. But if you destroy them, you take that choice away." Liwahg explained, "The Ancient Ten believed that the only way to fight evil is to try and understand what drives a being to be evil in the first place, not just charge in and blast away."
"Then…what we are doing now, by completely destroying all the generals is wrong?" Koji asked.
"Do you feel hate when you fight them and when you destroy them?" Liwahg asked.
"No. I don't." replied Koji, "I feel that I just have to do it for the ones I love and care about. I always think that, every time I…destroy them, I am one step closer in keeping both worlds as peaceful as they can be."
"Then I find nothing wrong with what you did with the generals that you have defeated." The guardian of light said, "You see, Hate creates more hate. When you act just like your enemy, doing things they do for pleasure like killing others with only yourself to think about, then you are no different than they are. And what's more, you'll just cause the cycle to keep going."
Koji however, did not feel any better about it.
Liwahg sighed, "Young Koji, you just keep your eyes and mind set on what it is you have to do to protect those you care about and even those who you do not know. Do not worry about those things now, just keep on walking the path that you have already begun to walk. One day, you will see that there was and has always been nothing to worry you about."
With those words, Liwahg ended their break and continued on with having Lobomon fight against him as a form of training.
Tommy's guardian, however, was a young girl his age. Yhe had a long platinum hair that went pass her shoulders. Her eyes were blue in color and she was, as she had told Tommy when he asked how old she was, one thousand and ninety-nine years old. And you can expect Tommy's reaction after learning that the girl in front of him was a whole lot older than he was. Despite the petite body of the guardian, she had shown Tommy that there was more to her than what he seems, for during their first day of training, Yhe at once challenged Tommy to a fight to learn how strong the young warrior of ice was and how strong he could still possibly be.
To make the story short, Yhe made short work of him. Defeating Tommy, but not really hurting him within five minutes.
"Boy, you're a lot weaker than the first Kumamon was." Yhe had told him.
"Am not!" Tommy pouted, "Let's try it again and you'll see."
"I didn't mean to offend you or anything, but that's the truth, and that is the reason why you will have to train harder than your friends." Yhe said to calm the fuming Tommy, "You may be weaker than the original Kumamon, but I sense that the strength you can possibly possess after our training would be a whole lot stronger than what he possessed way back when."
"Then let's do it!" Tommy exclaimed, enthusiastic.
And that's how his training began. He didn't stop that day until during the fight for the day he managed to break Yhe's guard, of which even Yhe was happy.
Well, as for JP, you could expect how shock he was to see what the guardian that was to train him looks like.
Kidlaht, as normal looking as any human could possibly be…normal except for the fact that he IS a guardian. He has long, spiky, golden hair and emerald eyes. And he was two thousand years old.
"What the hell!?" JP gasped as he saw what the guardian looks like, "Here I was shivering and almost certain of my death when I see the guardian and the guardian happens to be YOU?!"
"I can assure you." Kidlaht replied, "I can make quick work of you and end your life if I wish. But fortunately for you, you have a world to save, so I can't do what I please."
JP gulped, "How can Angemon and Angewomon say those things making it sound like we're going to face something…much terrible and making it sound like you and the other guardians are monsters?"
"They may have just based the info they gave to you on a legend of some sort." The spiky haired guardian replied, "Too few knows the truth and even so are the ones who wish and seeks to find it."
"So, what are we going to do first?" JP asked, regaining his composure.
Kidlaht pointed over to a very, very large piece of boulder and said, "Try using Beetlemon's lightning blitz attack on full power on that boulder. If you manage to destroy it with one shot, I have nothing left to teach you."
"That's it?" JP asked.
The guardian nodded.
And well, you can guess what happened next. Beetlemon could not even make a dent out of the boulder. So his hopes of getting out of the training ground earlier than the others ended. After seeing how weak his attack was, Kidlaht made him train (without a break) all day long.
As for Koichi, well, you can say he and his twin had the same predicament and although Ykhami wasn't as strict as Liwahg, he has his own way of doing things.
Ykhami was probably the second oldest guardians of the lot, he, however, did not look much older than JP. His hair was long, longer than Koji's even that he didn't even bother to tie it. His eyes and hair were of the same color, jet black. And though he was the guardian of darkness, he did not look a even like it as he always had a smile plastered on his face…even when Koichi had made a mistake.
"Darkness that beats darkness." Ykhami began to say, "That element is the hardest to control of all and the hardest to use as well."
"Why is that?" Koichi asked.
"You are strong when darkness itself is strong but weak if light is stronger." The guardian replied, "Thus, Loweemon can be both strong and weak at the same time, this will prove to be such a trouble to you and your friends when the time comes."
"Is there any way to make Loweemon balance or even a lot stronger?" Koichi asked.
"There is. And that is what you have put yourself into…training." Ykhami replied, "After this training you would not need even the smallest hint of darkness in a person's heart to become strong, you WILL be strong on your own. This training helped Loweemon, the original one, a lot and this training will also prove to be useful to you."
Like the others, Koichi at once went through to rigorous training. And all through out the week, he did not flinch nor quavered no matter how hard the task may be. And this made Ykhami smile even wider.
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." Ykhami thought, "And sure enough, the warriors ten are elevating themselves…there might still be hope after all."
Part 2 to be continued…
A/N: There. Man, am I fast! Heheheheh, anyways, if you guys are wondering how many chapters left there are, I'm guessing, more or less, this story will have fifty chapters, I can be wrong of course...well, unless you guys wanna cut it short, just tell me. Well, I've got to get back to writting so, see you guys next time! Once again, saying "PEACE" and signing out, This is Haru Glory!
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