A Digimon Frontier Fanfic

By Haru Glory

A/N: Okay, thanks for the reviews guys. I really apreciate your support, really! Well, here's the next chapter, although, it is kinda short I hope you guys don't mind, I'm going to lengthen the next chapter...hopefully. Anyways, here's the 43rd instalment of CoT: Of What the Future Brings. Enjoy!

Chronicles of Time: Of What the Future Brings

Chapter 43: Let the Tournament Begin!

With a loud thud, everyone landed not too softly on the ground.

"That was such a rough ride." Takuya said as he began to push himself up.

"Tell me about it." Zoe said.

"Are you okay, Erika?" Max and JP asked in unison, as they both rushed towards her at the same time.

"I'm fine, thanks." Erika replied, as she was helped to her feet by JP and Max.

"Koji, you okay?" Katsuya asked.

"Yeah, I don't think I broke any bones." Koji replied, then he noticed something at the same time as Katsuya did, "Hey, where are Koichi and Yumi?"

"Uh…Yumi?" Koichi asked in a hoarse voice, whilst blushing. "Can you please get off of me."

"Oh!" Yumi replied, as she immediately stood up, and helped Koichi stand up as well, "I'm really sorry about that."

"It's okay." Koichi replied, just when his twin and Katsuya saw them.

"I guess everyone's okay." Kira said.

"Speak for yourself, I think I might just have a sprained neck if I ever fall like that again." Hitakaru said.

"Where are we?" Takuya asked, noticing for the first time the place in which they landed.

"I don't think I want to know." Tommy said, as he had a bad feeling about where they might be.

The whole place was filled with destroyed buildings, some of which still has dark smoke rising from them. There were no longer any trees nor flowers, in fact there wasn't any pretty sight at all. The whole place, no matter from where they look to: north, south, east or west, there were nothing but the picture of destruction looming at their face.

"Welcome." Came a voice, that Katsuya and Yumi at once recognized, "To Shibuya, my dear spirit shinkers!"

"Chronosmon!" Yumi and Katsuya both shouted as they wheeled around hoping to see its owner.

"It's been a while, Katsuya and Yumi." Chronosmon's voice filled the air.

"Where are you!?" Katsuya asked, "Show yourself, you monster!"

"Now, now…no need to be impatient, we WILL meet." Chronosmon said, "But as you know, to do that, you must first survive the battles in this little game of mine."

"You're sick, do you know that?" Zoe shouted.

At this, laughter filled the air, "It's so nice that you all still have spirit after seeing this devastation."

"We'll make you pay for this!" Takuya shouted, anger apparent in his voice.

"What's the matter?" Chronosmon asked, "Humans can do these things can day? Destroy the place in which they live in an effort to gain what they want – power and domination. And yet, you do not feel anger towards them…"

The children could only grit their teeth.

It's as if Chronosmon could really see them, for he laughed even louder, "If you want to avenge what I did, then be sure to win the battles and go to the finals."

"Then bring it on!" Everyone exclaimed.

"Such impatience. But first, the rules." Chronosmon told them, "Your whole planet is an arena, each divided into different sectors and in each sectors one of my…generals will fight against your team. There is no limit to how many members fight together, I don't even care if you all fight against one enemy together. But as you all must know, this is a death match, whoever it is you have to face, the loser of the battle must be eliminated."

"You really don't care about life, do you, Chronosmon?" Erika asked.

"Life?" Chronosmon's voice asked, "Maybe the right question would be why YOU are afraid of death. Do you not know, as long as you are alive…with life there is death and death exist within life…that is the logic behind you who do not possess the power that I have."

"I've had enough of this!" Kira shouted, "Why don't you come and fight us now? It's not us who are afraid of death, it's more like you are the one who is afraid of it."

"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk." the monster spoke again, "If I were you, I would concentrate on finding my opponent rather than picking a fight with someone who holds their family as hostages."

And with that, Chronosmon's annoying voice filled the air once again before it disappeared completely.

"Damn that bastard!" Kira shouted, anger rising at him.

"There's no use sticking around here then," Katsuya told them, "We better go and find this 'opponent' that that lunatic is talking about."

"He wouldn't talk half as though if he didn't have our family hostage." Hitakaru said, "He's hiding and using them as a shield."

"I wouldn't talk as if I were so though if I were you, Hitakaru." Yumi said, "He has the right to talk that way…he's much stronger than you can comprehend…after all, he did defeat…and killed everyone we ever care about except our mother."

At this, Koji and Takuya were shocked, a lot more surprised than the others were.

"Does that mean…" Takuya thought, "…he killed our future selves?"

"Then that must be the reason why these two decided to come back here…that must be the reason why the future Zoe told them to come back, to stop that future from ever happening." Koji thought at the same time.

"I don't think you should have told them that, Yumi." Katsuya said as he saw Koji's reaction.

"Well, that just adds to the reason of why we should DEFINITELY kick Chronosmon's butt!" JP said.

Everyone nodded at this and they began to walk around to what once was their lively town. The destroyed town was deserted of course, they figured out that it was not only their family who was being held hostage by their foe but also everyone else, apart from the constant appearance of rats trying to find food to sustain themselves, there were no other living creatures in the area.

It was quiet…too quiet in fact for the children's liking. The eerie silence was annoying most of them, particularly Kira.

"If our enemy doesn't show up soon, I think I might just fall asleep here." Kira said, annoyed.

"We're lucky if whoever he is that we have to fight don't ambush us or something." Erika said.

"That's why we have to be very careful; we don't know what Chronosmon has up his sleeve." Takuya said.

"I'm sure whatever it is, you can expect it's far from what we call 'fair play'." Zoe added.

They continued to walk around, until they arrived at a tunnel.

"What do you guys think?" Koji asked, "Should we try down there?"

"I don't know, what if there's a trap waiting for us down there?" Max asked.

"Max may have a point Koji." Kira said, "We can't allow ourselves to be caught in any traps."

"Well…this leaves us with only one option." Takuya said, which made everyone look at him, "Max is right, we can't allow everyone to end up in trouble…so we better split up."

"Split up?!" Koichi asked, "But Takuya, what if one group came face-to-face with our enemy?"

"You shouldn't be worried about that Koichi," Yumi said, "We have trained and unlocked our hidden potentials."

"Yumi's right." Zoe nodded in agreement, "Besides, we can always contact each other using our D-Tectors."

"You really are going with this spilt-up plan, aren't you?" Koji asked.

Everyone nodded.

"Then, I guess it'll be alright." Koji said, "We did it many times before and nothing bad happened."

With those said, six of them went down the tunnel while the other six continued to roam around the city. The six who went down the tunnel are: Takuya, Zoe, Tommy, Max, Hikaru and Kira whilst the six who remained up were: Koji, Koichi, JP, Erika, Katsuya and Yumi.

"I really do have a bad feeling about this, Koji." Koichi said as they watched the others descend into the tunnel.

"Let's just pray that both our groups will be safe." Koji said, "Besides, like they said, there's nothing to worry about."

"I hope you're right." Katsuya said, "I hope you're right."

The tunnel was far from dark. It was very, very dark. Takuya's group had a very hard time finding their way around after bumping their heads around a couple of times on the tunnel's low ceiling.

Annoyed, Takuya decided to digi-volve into Agunimon and using his fire power, light the path that was ahead of them.

"You guys better digi-volve too." Agunimon said, a couple of minutes later, "We don't know what's ahead of us and we can't risk any mistakes."

They nodded and digi-volved themselves using their human digi-spirit.

Meanwhile…

"How do we know we're walking at the right direction?" JP asked.

"We don't." Yumi replied, "We have no idea where we're going or even where we should go."

"So, you're saying we're just going to wherever it is our feet are taking us?" Erika asked.

Katsuya nodded, "We really don't have much of a choice."

"You're certainly been quiet for sometime now, Koichi, what's up?" Koji asked.

"I still have this weird feeling that we shouldn't be here." Koichi replied, "Something's telling me that we should have followed Takuya and the others down the tunnel."

"I thought you were against the going down the tunnel thing." JP said.

Koichi shook his head, "I was against splitting up."

"Relax, Koichi." His twin told him, "Nothing bad has happened, right?"

"I wouldn't be too sure about that." Came a very familiar voice.

"Who's there?!" Katsuya asked as he, along with the others, wheeled around only to see…

"It's been a while, children." Piedmon greeted them.

"Everyone! Digi-volve!" Koji instructed them, but they were too slow. Piedmon has begun to move his hands in a sequence and as he did a white handkerchief appeared, soon after he used the white handkerchief on the six children as a means of using his special technique.

"Wha—what's going on?" JP asked as he felt something weird in his whole body.

"Arghhh…this…can't be good." Katsuya said.

"I don't know about you guys," Yumi said, "But…I feel like we're shrinking!"

"D-darn it!" Koji said, "We…have no choice. Koichi!"

Koichi nodded, and amidst the pain that he was feeling, he grabbed his digi-vice and pushed a sequence to contact the others.

Takuya's digi-vice beeped a couple of times before Agunimon dedigi-volved and Takuya looked at it.

"Something's up guys." Takuya said, "It's Koichi."

Takuya then answered it.

"T-takuya!" Koichi's voice was shaking, "T-trouble."

"Koichi, what's going on?" Takuya asked, as the others moved closer towards him to hear what was going on.

"P-piedmon!" was all Koichi could say before nothing could be heard on his side.

"Koichi!" Takuya shouted as he began to punch the sequence to contact Koichi, "You guys, try and contact Koji and the others."

Zoe and the others nodded.

After several tries, they all had the same result…nothing came up. No one answered.

"Takuya, what are we going to do?" Zoe asked.

"Should we go back?" Tommy asked.

Takuya nodded, "We can't abandon them…they might be in a lot more trouble than we are."

"Said like a true friend, Takuya." Kira said, "Well, then, let's go."

And with that, they all began to head back…

To be continued…

A/N: There. Not bad if I do say so myself (grins). Anyhow, as answer on some comments concerning about how strong they've gotten since it only takes two to defeat the generals (most of them) -- from Chapter 37. Well, since the last episode of the frontier season (remember this is story happened a week after the last episode) they're a lot stronger than before. Especially since they have figured out how to make themselves stronger (a.k.a using not only their own strength but the strength of their digi-spirits as well). Besides, I think anyone can get strong after beating a devil like Lucemon's final form. Anyways, enough of that. I'm really sorry for the late update. I was at a Youth for Christ General Assembly, so I hope you guys are alright with that. Well, it's already getting late, time to sign out now, this is Haru Glory saying "PEACE" and declaring that there are 13 days before Christmas!