A/N: sigh Not all the FMA people reviewed... oh well.. Thanks Aya for reviewing!

Chapter 3: A New Enemy Emerges...

"Burning Greymon!" Korikakumon called as his comrade crashed into the nearby trees. "You okay?"

The beast digimon groaned. "Sort of fine..."

"Takato, look out!" Juri screamed.

The Tamer gogglehead turned around, but saw it was too late, and shut his eyes, waiting for the pain to come.

"Erase Claw!"

"Symbols of Truth!"

Jenrya turned to Taomon, Cyberdramon, Ryo and Ruki.

"It's about time you guys came!"

"Sorry for the delay!" Ruki replied.

"Where are Kouji and Izumi?" Takato asked, looking for the two.

"They're sort of busy right now..." Ryo answered, trying his best to look innocent enough, although the tamers and frontier group had suspicious expressions.

"Do you think the camp is under attack?" Izumi asked, running.

Kouji shrugged and spotted a parade of Pagumons running across their path.

"Izumi, digivolve to B-hybrid for me now!"

Although confused by the request, she nodded and got her D-tector out. "Execute! Spirit evolution! Zephyrmon!"

She flew above him as the boy grabbed onto her wrist until Zephyrmon realized what he had in mind. She told him to hold on tight as the bird digimon flew higher and faster towards camp. "Quick thinking Kouji!"

He smirked as he too got out his digivice and jumped back onto the ground. "Execute! Spirit Evolution! Kendogarurumon!" He picked up speed with the help of the wheels attached to his ankles as the 2 B-hybrids headed back. 'I hope we're not to late.'

"Kso!" Sanzo cursed as more demons came into view, followed by a couple of evil digimons, one of them being a deva, Vikaralamon.

"Oh no..." Hirokazu gasped and called Takato's attention. "Look!"

"This is bad..." Jenrya muttered and clenched his fists.

Sakura readied her cards and casted the 'shield' on all of them. "Everybody! Stay close!"

"Darn it! And I thought a crusader like me can-"

"Now's not the time Lyrrem!" Miyuki said.

"How long can you hold the card's effect up?" Aya asked, holding onto her injured shoulder.

"As long as I have enough energy..." Sakura answered.

Frillion turned to Natsumi. "If the shield wears off can you...?"

"I don't think I'll be able to cast my shield... I'm too tired..." Natsumi said apologetically as she held onto her digimon. Then she turned to Kouichi. "Where are your brother and Izumi? You can contact them right?"

The older twin nodded. "But. I don't think I can if they're in their spirit forms.

The demons growled at them. "This barrier of yours won't hold that much longer!"

"Who asked your opinion onion-breath!" Nuriko said, raising his fists at the demon.

"Geez, you're so weird..."Akabane murmured.

"This isn't the time to be arguing you two." Hakkai said, calming the angered Nuriko.

"Hey, ensui bearer!" Iruki called.

Mikagami turned to her and looked pissed. "My name's not ensui bearer..."

"Whatever," she shrugged. "Got any bright ideas?"

"One; give you to them..." he muttered.

"WHAT!" she was about to strangle him, but :

"H-hey, Iruki, calm down... he's only kidding." Aikawa sweatdropped, trying to stop her.

"What're we going to do then?" Saya asked, looking around.

Hatori crossed his arms. "One thing's for sure, we can't stay in here because the shield will soon -"

"OPEN!" Junpei yelled as one demon scratched the shield, followed by Vikaralamon's attack, opening the shield they were in.

"Now you will all die!" A demon snarled.

"Hurricane Gale!"

"Howling Laser!"

The two attacks hit a group of demons, creating a diversion.

"What're you guys waiting for? RUN!" Kendogarurumon cried. And shot another laser at some of the evil rookie digimons the deva brought along. Kouichi digivolved into Kaiserloemon and ordered the others to get on as his twin did the same. The Tamers got onto their partner digimon and they all sped off to another direction.

"They're escaping!" A digimon yelled.

"Let them be..."

The demons and digimons all turned to see a human emerge from the dark.

"All of you did well, for now, store your energy. At least now, they know who's boss."

"Mistress Kiyo!" The demons bellowed as she laughed an evil laugh.

Meanwhile, the group was able to find another safe area and decided to rest there for the night.

"Man, we really owe you two." Hai Ping said, turning to the warriors of light and wind.

"It was no big deal!" Izumi smiled.

"Yeah" Kouji added, leaning back against a tree and slowly closed his eyes.

"Uh-huh..." Takuya mumbled. "But we shouldn't have retreated! We could've handled all of them!"

"And there he goes again..." Izumi sighed, shaking her head and sitting down beside Kouji. "Last time you said that was -" she stopped and turned to Kouichi who blinked at her. "Go on." The girl turned to Kouji who just nodded.

"Was when Duskmon... almost got us..."

"Dusk who?" Hai Ping and Lyrrem asked at the same time.

Natsumi turned to Iruki who gave a 'don't-look-at-me' glare.

"Oh c'mon, please? Tell them!"

The assassin just turned her head to the other direction, ignoring her friend's pleading puppy-dog eyes. "Give me a good reason."

"Because it's affecting the frontier group a lot."

Iruki sighed and turned to the clueless people.

"Kouichi was once their enemy, when he was under the control of Kerpymon who was engulfed by an evil spirit. Kouichi somehow got to the digiworld by accident, yet he inherited the good and real hybrids of dark which are Loemon and Kaiserloemon." She paused for a while, letting this register in the heads of the confused people.

"Moving on, Duskmon is the H-hybrid of dark on the evil side and this was handed to Kouichi since he had felt loneliness and hatred, as well as confusion when he got to the digiworld. When the frontier digidestined met him, as Duskmon, for the first time, Takuya wanted to fight him because he believed they'd win, but Kouji disagreed, saying it was better to retreat."

"Don't stop!" Lyrrem yelled. "I wanna hear more!

"Argh! Fine!" Iruki took a deep breath. "They ended up fighting and Takuya was about to be killed but Kouji blocked the attack and well, he's still alive, so there! END of story, END of conversation! GOOD NIGHT!" And with that, Iruki immediately grabbed her backpack and lied down on it, despite the guns inside it, she was able to sleep. Everyone blinked and sweatdropped. Hai Ping turned to Takuya who grinned at her. "Yes?"

"I wish Kouji didn't block the attack..."

"Wha-! Why?" he asked, his jaw dropping.

"Nothing." And she, too lied down.

"Busted..." Junpei teased.

The frontier gogglehead made a face and smirked. "What about you and Frillion? I don't see her 'liking' you one bit!"

Junpei flushed and grumbled. "Shut up Takuya..."

The next thing Takuya heard the chocolate lover boy say was 'Frillion' and Takuya just snickered at him and turned to Hai Ping who was fast asleep. 'Why does she hate me so much?' He looked up at his best friend and the blonde girl beside him.

"Uh... what's up with you two?"

The two stopped their conversation and turned to the warrior of fire.

"Nothing. Why?" Kouji asked.

"You tow have been close lately and well..."

Izumi giggled and whispered. "Should we tell him?" Kouji nodded as the girl smiled. "Well, let's just say we're 'together' now."

Takuya's eyes widened and gave an 'are you serious' look.

Kouji smirked and gave a nod. "We're serious."

"Finally! I'm sick and tired of you two 'pretending' to be one!"

"Go to sleep man! Or I'll make you sleep." Kouji said, eyeing him.

"Okay, okay..."

Later on, the sun was about to rise and Calumon got up, shaking Juri. The girl stirred and rubbed her eyes. "Yes?"

"Let's go gather food!"

The two walked to the nearby trees, grabbing a few apples and other kinds of fruits.

When they came back, everyone was already up. Some stretched their arms and legs while some chatted with whomever was near them.

"Okay guys and girls! We're going to eat and make sure you fill your stomachs because we'll never know how long our journey will be." Takato announced as they all sat down and ate..

Iruki gave a piece of her apple to her pet while the Tamers and Natsumi did the same to their digimons.

"Hey, your dog can talk right?" Aikawa asked, talking a bite from his apple.

Iruki nodded. "He's the best dog I've had!"

Kiri wagged his tail and barked. "I'm also part wolf!"

"Hmm... I need twelve bottles of holy water..." Kasumi said, getting up and walking to the nearest stream. "Be right back!"

"Hang on! I'm coming with you!" Domon and Kenta said, running after her.

"Hey, she might run out of bottles and I've got tons of them!" Yuri said and pulled Kuroshin with her. "Let's go!"

"Yuri! I want to stay with Hakkai and Hatori!"

"Sheesh! It's not like they're going to disappear!"

Juri got up again. "I'll go get some more food for us."

"Hold on! You could use a hand!" Izumi said following her. "Kouji, you stay here and rest okay?"

"But -"

"No buts Minamoto." Izumi grinned and Pulled Hai Ping. "C'mon, let's go, I've got something to tell you!"

Hai Ping raised a brow. "Uh... okay..." She turned to Takuya. "STAY!"

"But demons might attack!" Takuya reasoned.

"Geez! Just because we're girls doesn't mean we can't take care of ourselves."

Gojyo smiled. "in any case, I'm going with you ladies."

Takuya, Takato and Kouji glared at the redhead. "What?"

"Me too!" Goku said, jumping around like a little monkey.

"Take me with you!" Frillion yelled, running away from Junpei.

"Alright. Let's go!" Juri beamed.

"Don't worry Kouji, I'm not letting him get to close to me." Izumi assured him.

Although he wanted to argue, he just trusted her for it. "Oh, alright..."

"Maybe you should convince him." Hai Ping nudged.

Gojyo placed an arm around Izumi. "See ya, I'm off with the ladies."

WHAM!"

They all looked at Kouji, but he was still in the same place, so they turned back to Gojyo, who was once again holding onto his bleeding nose.

"I'm taken Mr. Sha Gojyo." Izumi smirked and then waved to Kouji as she followed the other girls.

"Here's a new saying; like boyfriend, like girlfriend!" Tomoki joked as the rest followed with a laugh.

Meanwhile,

"Do you understand, Calamarimon, Grumblemon and Petaldramon?"

"Yes sir."

"Good." He turned to another human. "Now you will see Kiyo, digimons can also be useful at times."

"If you say so, master."

"Um, guys...?" Kasumi called out to the two males, fighting over a bottle.

"I'll fill it with water!" Domon yelled.

"No! I will!" Kenta fought back, tugging harder.

"Guys!"

They stopped and turned to the girl. "Yes?"

"I'll do it." She snatched the empty bottle and filled it with water, raised it up in the air, and cried : "Aqua Benedicta!"

"For real!" Hai Ping asked, grabbing onto Izumi's shoulders.

"Yes, I told him and well... he feels the same way."

"Congratulations Izumi!" Juri exclaimed.

However, their conversation had to stop since a digimon appeared.

"Oh no..." Izumi muttered. "Petaldramon!"

Petaldramon turned to them and used his vines to grab all of them. "I've been sent by my master to capture you!"

"Let go!" Juri yelled. "Takato!"

"Oi! You stupid beast! Drops us NOW!" Gojyo demanded.

" I can't transform!" Frillion and Hai Ping both yelled.

"Nor can I digivolve!" Izumi added, trying to reach for her D-tector, but no avail. "His grip is too tight!"

"Kso! You can't treat us like this!" Goku said, trying to break free.

"Where's that gogglehead when you need him!" Hai Ping yelled.

"Takato! Ruki! Anyone! Help us!" Juri screamed.

Petaldramon's grip tightened and soon they all had difficulty breathing until, one by one, they passed out.

'Kouji...' Izumi thought.

"Ah-choo!"

A sneeze from Takato, followed by Takuya, Ruki and Kouji, attracted everyone's attention.

"Hey, have you guys caught a cold?" Natsumi asked.

"Err... No..." They answered.

Kouji looked up and then locked eyes with Takuya. They both nodded and digivolved to B-hybrid form.

"Execute! Spirit evolution!

"Burning Greymon!"

"Kendogarurumon!"

The two immediately headed to where Juri and the others went.

"Hey! Where do those two think they're going?" Ryo asked as Ruki and Takato sneezed again.

"Usually when you sneeze for no reason, it means that someone is either talking about you or thinking about you." Iruki said.

"Or calling for our help..." Ruki said slowly.

Silence followed as realization dawned on them.

"We've got to go help them! Junpei said, starting to run in the direction Kouji and Takuya took off.

"Ack!" Domon yelled, feeling a bit paralyzed.

Grumblemon laughed at them. Kasumi, Yuri, Kuroshin, Kenta and Domon couldn't move because of the spell Grumblemon used. "This is also the one I used when that brat got his digispirit."

"Who?" they asked.

"None of your business!" he yelled, remembering how the wolf digimon had defeated him. "Now, I shall take you to my master."

He turned around to see Calamarimon appear to them.

"Good work, now, you need to stop 2 pesky digimons heading towards Petaldramon." She sneered, grabbing hold of the paralyzed teens.

"Namely?"

The squid digimon grinned. "Burning Greymon and your nemesis, Kendogarurumon."

Frillion opened her eyes, only to find herself and her friends, still within the digimon's wrath. "Let us go you - oversized chameleon!"

Hai Ping started cursing a lot of b-words and kicking the digimon's body, but it didn't seem to mind.

"It's no use, we're helpless." Juri whispered.

Gojyo gritted his teeth. "There's no way I'm letting these damsels down!" he tried once more to break free, but failed to do so.

Goku even tried biting the digimon, but also failed to break free.

"Why must we always be in trouble!" the baka saru yelled.

Izumi turned to the digimon. "But Duskmon killed you, how are you still able to live?"

"You'll know soon enough."

"Argh! Where did they go? I swear, if something happens to Hai Ping, I'll..." Takuya/Burning Greymon stopped short and looked down.

"You'll what?" Kouji/Kendogarurumon turned to his best friend.

"F-forget I said anything..."Takuya said, turning away.

"Whatever..." Kouji smirked. "I think I see them... Isn't that Petaldramon!"

"Looks like him. But didn't Duskmon finish him off?"

"He did."

"Then how is it possible for him to be standing there!"

"You'll soon find out!" a familiar voice behind them said.

But before either of them could turn around, they were attacked from behind. The force of the attack knocked them into the clearing, right in front of Petaldramon.

"Well, well, well... look who just dropped by..." Petaldramon said, watching the two digimon revert back to human form.

"Kouji..." Izumi whispered.

The two teens struggled to get up, but were paralyzed by Grumblemon's spell.

"What should we do with these two?" Calamarimon asked, appearing with the other hostages. "Should we take them with us?"

"How about we leave them here, so we can see them suffer knowing that they can't do anything to help the ones close to their heart." Grumblemon grinned.

"Good idea."

"Yeah, we can torture them later on."

The three evil digimons were leaving with the 11 hostages, when the rest of the Tamers and frontier group arrived with Iruki, Natsumi, etc.

"Oh no! We're too late!" Tomoki exclaimed.

"Damn!" Natsumi muttered.

"Kouji!" Izumi cried helplessly.

"Izumi!" Kouji yelled. "Bring them back!"

"Hai Ping, no matter what, I promise I'll come to rescue you!" Takuya shouted.

Hai Ping opened her mouth to say something, but was silenced by Calamarimon, who clamped one of her tentacles over Hai Ping's mouth.

Grumblemon then cast another one of his spells, rendering everyone paralyzed.

Takuya and the others watched helplessly as Hai Ping was dragged away with the other hostages.

An Hour Later...

"Damn this! I still can't move!"

"Cool it Takuya. The spell will wear off soon."

"How can I 'cool it' when Hai Ping and the rest are, hell knows where, while we're stuck here doing nothing!"

"That's only because we can't move:

"That's - Hey I think it's wearing off!"

"I told you.."

"Okay let's move!" Takuya yelled taking his D-tector out. Kouji nodded and got his own digivice out as well, followed by Junpei, Tomoki and Kouichi, the Tamer's card slashing routine, while everyone else just followed.

Elsewhere...

"What the hell do you want from us!" Hai Ping yelled at the three digimons.

"Just shut up and wait..." Calamarimon scolded. "humans..."

Izumi turned to them with glaring eyes. "What did you do to Kouji and the others? And how can the three of you still be alive!"

They grinned evilly. "Our master revived us and we're in full control of our spirits."

"And much stronger too." Grumblemon added.

"Izumi, who the f hell are these guys?" Hai Ping asked.

Juri, Gojyo, Goku all turned to her, as well as Kasumi, Domon, Kenta, Frillion, Kuroshin and Yuri.

"They are also part of the ancient ten..." she sighed. "We defeated them a long time ago and I don't know they were revived."

"Well, history will not repeat itself because we're stronger than ever before!" Grumblemon announced.

But before any of the hostages could argue, a grenade was thrown at them. Petaldramon took it with his tongue and swallowed it, making the humans either panic or stare.

"You idiot!" they yelled.

BOOM!

The hostages dropped to the ground and looked up to see a black and smoking Petaldramon.

"Although you guys are dumber than usual."

They all turned to see Natsumi and co.

"Told ya being an assassin is cool!" Iruki smirked at the grumbling Mikagami. "It was just a grenade..."

"You brats!"

"Let's move!" Aikawa and Jenrya yelled, as they ran in another direction followed by a raging Petaldramon. The digimon didn't bother counting them, so he didn't notice that the frontier group and half of the Tamers weren't with them. Iruki took out a device. "Okay Tamers! Lure Grumblemon away."

Calamarimon and Grumblemon took hold of the hostages. "Let them be..."

"Hey big nose!" Hirokazu called.

"What!" Grumblemon had veins popping out of his head.

"Bet you can't catch us!" Ryo taunted.

"Grumblemon, don't... mind them... never mind..." Calamarimon sighed as her fellow digimon went after them. "Idiot..."

"Nice to see you again."

"The squid digimon turned around to see her former rival, Zephyrmon, standing behind her along with the rest of the ancient ten. Calamarimon backed away with the hostages. "Stay back!" she yelled.

"If you hurt Hai Ping..." Takuya/Burning Greymon threatened.

"Or Frillion..." Junpei/Metalkabuterimon added.

"Whatever, let's just get on with the plan!" Kaiserloemon yelled.

"Ready when you are!" Tomoki/Korikakumon cried, "Avalanche Axes!"

The axes hit Calamarimon. "Why you -" BAM!

Burning Greymon tackled her to a huge tree. "Now guys!'

Kendogarurumon took one end of a vine and Kaiserloemon took the other as they circled it around the squid digimon, tying her in a vice-like grip to the tree.

"We'll be having roast squid for dinner!" Metalkabuterimon grinned as he threw her an electrifying attack, followed by a refreshing blizzard, courtesy of Korikakumon, and of course, Zephyrmon's Plasma Pods, which supported the combined attacks of Ebony Black, Howling Laser, and Pyro Tornado.

Calamarimon let out a puff of smoke and fainted, reverting back to her H-hybrid form, Ranamon.

"Zephyrmon slide digivolve to Kazemon!" She captured her digicode, including the human form as well. "I don't know how you and the others were revived, but for now you shall be purified." And she dedigivolved back to Izumi followed by everyone else.

"Hai Ping!" Takuya glomped her. "I'm so glad you're alright!"

"Ack! Let go you freakin' gogglehead!"

Junpei walked over to Frillion and grinned. "Don't I get a reward?"

Frillion groaned inwardly. "Reward? Here!" she transformed into a giant snake and swished the boy with her tail. "There's your reward!"

Tomoki laughed at them as Takuya was being scolded by an angered Hai Ping. "Guess she doesn't like PDA..."

Kouichi turned to his twin, who kept glancing at Izumi. An idea popped into his evil mind and he pushed Kouji. "Go!"

Kouichi! Don't -" He stopped to see Izumi in front of him by a few inches. "Um..."

Izumi smiled. "Thanks for coming to my rescue..." she laughed. "Again."

Kouji turned away. "No problem..." His older brother sighed. "You an do better than that otou-tou little brother . Kouji elbowed him. "Shut up!"

"Why the hell do we have to handle this big guy!" Aya yelled.

Petaldramon kept chasing them and they could only run into narrow spaces; which is in between trees, in order to defend themselves from the digimon.

"C'mon Orihara! Think!" Mikagami ordered.

Iruki glared at him. "Hey I already did the thinking of how to spilt them up and get their attention! Why don't you think unless you don't have a brain!"

"Why you -"

"Cool it!" Aikawa interrupted as the two just glared at each other an looked away.

Natsumi kept running, thinking of how they could stop the chameleon but; "Hey, why did it suddenly turn quiet..?"

They stopped and looked behind, only to see no one following.

"I guess he chickened out." Nuriko said, leaning on a tree.

"No, Petaldramon isn't the type to retreat so soon..." Natsumi placed a finger below her chin.

"She's right, he could've been ordered to stop and go back," Iruki added. "and I have this feeling we have a bigger enemy."

The rest of the group also had the same scene, Grumblemon was long gone, and they didn't know why.

"I think we'd better go back..." Ryo suggested and they all did.

Once the group was reunited...

"You killed Calamarimon!"

"Not really killed, we just captured her data." Izumi explained.

"So somewhere out there is her digi egg.." Tomoki added.

"And a bigger problem..." Iruki said.

"Huh?" everyone turned to her.

"It's just that, I don't think that Petaldramon and Grumblemon would just disappear like that." Iruki explained.

"Okay, go on..."

"So, I think that there's a more powerful force at work here." Iruki finished.

"I think I see your point." Ruki said. "You think that those two digimon are just pawns in a bigger plan."

"Exactly."

"But who? Who would want to get rid of us so badly?" Jenrya asked.

An Image suddenly flashed within the 11 students minds. An image of an oh-too-familiar person.

"Do you think..?" Natsumi turned to the others,.

"Nah... not possible..." Frillion and Aya said at the same time.

"Or could it?"

Okay! That's the end of chapter 3! Chapter 4 may take a while though... Anyway, Don't forget to review! And Aya, when's Iruki coming back anyway? She needs to review! looks for master Hahahahaha!