Reprise of the Spirits

WARNING: THIS FANFIC IS RATED 'T' FOR VIOLENCE, BLOOD, CURSING, AND MORE VIOLENCE. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

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Junpei sighed as he looked at Izumi. There was still no change in her condition. He felt powerless. How many more of his friends would be hurt without him being able to do anything?

Patamon was now somehow sitting in Yougo's lap. Junpei still had no idea how the child digimon had actually managed that, but he wasn't in the mood to care. The TV was on, detailing a news reporter that was situated outside the hospital. They were talking about Izumi again.

The only consolation was that none of the reporters had said Izumi's name yet.

"Izumi's never going to be able to have a normal life, is she?" Yougo asked.

Junpei sighed, shaking his head. "In all honesty, none of us have had a normal life in the past two years," the boy answered. Seeing Yougo give him a look of confusion, he decided to elaborate. "It's because of how we met. I really think you'd be better off getting the actual story from Izumi."

Yougo turned her attention back to her daughter's sleeping form. "That can wait. She can tell me when she's ready."

Patamon looked up at Yougo, his eyes wide with uncertainty, as if he could feel something. He quickly jumped off of the woman and flew over towards the window.

Yougo got out of her seat and followed the small digimon.

Junpei, wanting to know what was wrong, went to look out the window and figure out what was wrong.

Izumi moaned and shivered in her sleep.

"What are those?" Yougo asked as she saw the four humanoid dragons with fire motif armor walk in front of the hospital.

"They're Fladramon," Patamon supplied. "But what could they possibly be doing here?"

"They aren't angels," Yougo stated suspiciously. "Do you think they're allies with them?"

"I don't know," Patamon answered.

"Shit," Junpei cursed as he got a look at the four approaching digimon. The news reporter on the TV started making comments about more monsters appearing.

One of the Fladramon approached the reporter. "The Chosen are in this building," The Fladramon stated. "Get out of my way."

"What do you mean by 'The Chosen'?" the news reporter asked, her voice containing a small amount of fear.

"Humans who can become Digimon," The Fladramon answered. "Now get out of my way." The digimon moved his arm towards the reporter and shoved her out of the way as he kept moving towards the hospital.

'I can't let them get in,' Junpei thought. 'Besides, I'm one of the people their after.' He then quickly ran out of the room, his necklace glowing light blue, which went unnoticed by anyone.

.o0o.

Meanwhile in the room shared by Kouichi and Kouji, the television was off, and Kouichi was trying to sleep, with little success. His eyes opened widely as he sat up in the bed.

Kouji turned his head.

"What's wrong?" the younger of the twins asked.

"A group of digimon is outside the hospital," Kouichi answered as he sat up and got out of the bed. "They're Fladramon."

Kouji had a look of confusion on his face. "What do you mean?" Kouji asked. "I've never encountered a Fladramon."

"I have," Kouichi replied darkly, looking at the table and grabbing his black necklace, placing it around his neck.

Kouji gulped. "How do you know this?"

"I don't know," Kouichi answered, his eyes narrowing. "But I'm not going to let them get into this hospital." Kouichi then walked to get out of the room.

Kouji watched his brother exit the room. "Stay alive," The youngest twin muttered tiredly, before grabbing the remote and turning on the TV.

If he had to be confined to the bed, he might as well cheer his brother on.

.o0o.

Kouichi met up with Junpei in the hallway. The warrior of darkness looked at the older boy. "You're going out there too?" Kouichi asked, somewhat surprised.

"Why are you surprised?" Junpei asked as they both ran down the hall. "I can't let you fight four digimon on your own."

Kouichi just shrugged. He figured Junpei would figure out how to evolve soon anyway, so it really didn't matter that much. Besides, both Kouichi and Kouji were surprised that Junpei didn't evolve during Izumi's battle with Pidmon. Not only that, but Kouichi had figured out what allowed him to evolve to battle Angemon, and knew that he could pull it off again.

He wanted to protect his brother and friends, after all.

The two chosen miraculously failed to encounter any hospital staff as they made it to the bottom floor of the hospital. The two children were out the door before any of the guards could stop them.

"What do you want?" Kouichi shouted as he and Junpei exited the hospital building and came face to face with the four fire type digimon.

The Fladramon that seemed to act as the leader looked the two of them over. "Where are the other two chosen in that building?" The news reporters were filming this exchange, which Kouichi and Junpei both realized instantly.

"What any normal person would be in the hospital for," Junpei answered with a sneer. "Now what do you want?"

Two of the Fladramon raised their fist, which exploded into orange fire. "Knuckle Fire!" They then thrust their fists forward, launching the fireballs towards the two children.

Dark light and blue lighting burst out from Kouichi and Junpei's chests respectively. "That's what I thought," Kouichi stated, before blue digicode surrounded him. "Spirit Evolution!" After a few seconds of being consumed in the Digicode, Kouichi had become Duskmon once again.

Junpei clenched his fists as he thought about protecting Izumi, Kouichi, Patamon, and Yougo. Blue digicode appeared around his and a bolt of electricity seemed to move around his eyes. "Spirit Evolution!"

.o0o.

Takuya and Tomoki were walking, still headed towards the hospital.

"I wonder if Izumi's okay," Tomoki said after a few seconds. "I mean she was hurt pretty badly."

"I'm sure she'll be fine," Takuya answered. "But I think she might want to rest a bit." 'God, that's the understatement of the century. But I don't want to make him think that Izumi's not going to be okay.' The boy thought. But something came to his mind...

How did he know that Izumi would be okay? Getting smashed into the ground from up in the air would be a relatively serious injury, no matter if you were a digimon when it happened. Takuya felt disgusted. All this time he had been thinking about how Izumi would be able to deal with the aftermath of the world finding out she could become a digimon, but he wasn't thinking about the possibility that she wouldn't be around to deal with the problem in the first place.

'I'm such an idiot,' Takuya thought. 'But wouldn't Junpei have said something if she was fatally injured?' The brown-haired child shook his head, trying to chase away those thoughts. It wouldn't help to think about things like that now. Right now he needed to get to the hospital to check up on Izumi, Kouji, and Kouichi.

"Is something wrong, Takuya?" Tomoki asked, noticing that the older chosen was silent, an intense look of concentration on his face as he walked. Takuya shook his head.

"Nothing's wrong," Takuya answered. "I'm just worried, that's all."

Tomoki turned his head to look forward, and then froze.

"Takuya!" he shouted, looking over at the two humanoid dragon digimon with fire-themed armor that were standing in front of them.

A name quickly came to the top of Takuya's mind. 'Fladramon.'

"I know," Takuya said. "What do you want?" he shouted.

"The death of the chosen," One of the dragons said, pulling his fist back. "Knuckle Fire!" Orange flame exploded, before the dragon thrust his arm forward and sent the ball of flame towards Takuya, which struck the boy in the chest.

It took Takuya a moment to realize that he had actually been hit, as he didn't feel the effect of the flames. Takuya saw that the two Fladramon were clearly shocked. Takuya looked down, and realized there was a burnt hole in the center of his shirt.

Takuya looked up again to see one of the Fladramon charging towards him, fist pulled back. As the armor digimon thrust his arm forward to hit Takuya, the human child dodged, causing the dragon's arm to smash into the ground. The Fladramon growled, clearly annoyed. Takuya hoped that there was some pain involved for the digimon, anything to make this fight easier was good for him. The Warrior of Flame looked around, seeing Tomoki busy running from fireballs being sent from the other Fladramon.

He then noticed a large rock that was resting on the ground. Takuya grabbed it and looked to see Fladramon heading towards him, once again ready to punch him, which would probably take off his head. Once the dragon digimon got close enough, Takuya dodged once again and threw the rock at Fladramon's eye, hoping against all odds that he'd actually hit the digimon where he intended.

As it turned out, Takuya was one lucky child. The Fladramon screamed in pain as the rock impacted against his eye, blood dripping out of it.

"You, little chosen bastard!" Fladramon screamed. "This is for my people!" Fire gathered around the digimon's hand, but this time it seemed more violent than it was before. "Knuckle Fire!" Fladramon shouted, firing off the ball of fire at Takuya's face. Takuya dodged, as he still wasn't confident about the whole 'immunity to fire' thing, and moved behind the dragon, trying to think of what to do.

Meanwhile Tomoki was still dodging fireball after fireball. He didn't want to take his chances with getting hit. After all, Takuya had the Spirits of Fire. It would make sense for him to be nearly immune to attacks, even if he wasn't evolved. But Tomoki was the Warrior of Ice, which was very much not immune to fire.

"Stay still, you brat!" the Fladramon that was attacking him yelled. He was mildly confused that the brat wouldn't evolve to fight, but he really didn't care that much, except that the brat didn't have the balls to fight or stand still. "If you aren't going to fight then just stand still and let me avenge my brothers you killed!"

"What are you talking about?" Tomoki shouted, before yelping and ducking another fireball aimed at his head.

"Don't play stupid with me, you chosen are all on the same side!" Fladramon yelled, throwing another fireball at Tomoki. Tomoki dodged, feeling like there was something that he needed to do. If this battle kept going on, innocent people would eventually gather around to watch it and get hurt. He had to do something!

Fladramon blinked as a very white light shot out from Tomoki's chest. Blue digicode appeared around him. "Spirit Evolution!" Tomoki shouted as the Digicode completely surrounded him. When the digicode subsided, Tomoki had become a small meter tall white bear wearing a green half-helmet and green boots. He carried a large gun that looked like a missile launcher on his shoulder. "Chakkumon!"

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"Blitzmon!" the digimon that had been Junpei shouted as the digicode surrounding him subsided. This digimon was a large humanoid digimon wearing dark blue metallic armor, the back of which was similar to a beetle shell. A large beetle-like horn appendage was sticking out of his forehead. He raised his fist and lightning shot out of the sky and gathered around his hand.

Blitzmon thrust his arm at an attacking Fladramon. "Thor Hammer!" The electricity sent the Fladramon flying back and landing into the street.

One of the Fladramon punched at Duskmon, who quickly dodged and brought out his swords. "Knuckle Fire!" A Fladramon shouted from behind the warrior of darkness, who threw the fireball at Duskmon's back.

Duskmon spun around and batted the fireball away with his sword, only to find a foot hitting him in the back. Duskmon looked around, and realized that he was fighting against three of the Fladramon.

"Fire Rocket!" Two of the Fladramon yelled as they were consumed by flames and charged at Duskmon, seemingly flying slightly over the ground, attempting to slam into him from opposite directions.

A look of awe appeared in Duskmon's eyes as he jumped into the air and the Fladramon slammed into each other. 'Idiots,' Duskmon thought as he saw the two Fladramon stagger around blindly. 'Can anything really be that stupid?'

"Fire Rocket!" Duskmon heard this coming from below him and shifted his body to avoid the projectile digimon.

A limb impacted in his back. Duskmon slammed into the ground face first. He groaned as he turned around and saw the lead Fladramon land on the ground, his tail swinging back and forth.

"I'm not as stupid as the others," The Fladramon boasted.

Duskmon growled, as he prepared to attack again. He had to get rid of the Fladramon. There was no way he could let the hospital come within any more danger.

"Lightning Blitz!" Blitzmon shouted as a bolt of lighting struck the lead Fladramon in the side, knocking him back. Duskmon didn't even bother looking over towards the attack's direction.

Duskmon jumped up into the air and landed on top of the Fladramon. The Fladramon gasped in pain and spit out blood. Duskmon raised his sword, ready to decapitate his opponent, when fire impacted against his chest and knocked him backwards. Duskmon turned and saw one of the other Fladramon standing in the direction where the fire had come from.

"Knuckle Fire!" Fire slammed into Duskmon's chest from below him, and the lead Fladramon jumped out of his lying position on the ground. Blitzmon was busy with the other two Fladramon, who had seemed to realize that he was a legitimate threat.

Duskmon charged, slashing his swords as he prepared to attack.

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"Snow Bomber!" Chakkumon shouted as snowballs shot out of his 'rocket launcher', which the Fladramon he was fighting quickly countered by sending balls of fire to melt each ball.

Chakkumon jumped up into the air and shifted into a crystalline icicle. "Icicle La La La!" Chakkumon shouted as he sped to the ground, which was a location that Fladramon quickly jumped away from.

Chakkumon impaled himself in the ground. "Knuckle Fire!" Fladramon shouted, sending balls of fire to collide with the small ice digimon, who went sprawling into a tree.

"Tomoki!" Takuya shouted, before he dodged another punch from the enraged Fladramon that he was fighting against.

Chakkumon jumped up, and pointed his snow launcher at Fladramon. "Snow Bomber!" Snowball after snowball shot out of the launcher, two of which impacted Fladramon in the chest, knocking him back.

"Fire Rocket!" Fladramon shouted, becoming consumed in flames that completely melted the remaining snowballs. The fireballs apparently evaporated the resulting water, as Fladramon didn't seem that affected by the water that should have formed from melted snow.

Chakkumon's eyes widened. 'Figures I evolve when it would be useless for me to do so!' The hybrid thought.

The flames disappeared from around the Fladramon. "I really love that trick," The Fladramon commented before jumping up into the air. "Now let me show you its other use! Fire Rocket!" The flames returned in full force as Fladramon sped towards Chakkumon's location on the ground.

Chakkumon couldn't dodge the attack in time and went sprawling around the ground when Fladramon slammed into him. Chakkumon screamed in pain. His entire body felt like it was being melted, which wasn't that far from the truth.

"Knuckle Fire!" Fladramon shouted, thrusting his arm forward towards Chakkumon.

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"Eroberung!" Duskmon shouted, his swords glowing red as he slashed at the two nearest Fladramon with both blades, making sure to attack a different Fladramon with each. A red arc of light shot out from the blades. One of the Fladramon was hit with the arc of dark energy, while the other one jumped out of the way, causing the attack to uplift part of the road.

'Damn!' Duskmon thought, although he noticed that the Fladramon that he hit was on the ground, bleeding from a large gash on his chest that obliterated the chest armor.

"Knuckle Fire!" The other Fladramon shouted, thrusting his arm forward and throwing the fireballs at Duskmon once again.

"Don't they know anything else?" Duskmon shouted as he jumped up to dodge the Fladramon's fireballs.

When Duskmon landed on the ground, he noticed that the Fladramon that he attacked before was still lying on the ground, unconscious. Duskmon's swords glowed red.

"Eroberung!" Duskmon shouted, slashing both of his swords at the downed Fladramon. The red beams that shot off from the swords cut the Fladramon in two, and the body became digicode. Duskmon quickly extended his hand, and the Digicode flowed into it. The influx of extra digicode had a rejuvenating effect on Duskmon, which even seemed visible as his muscles bulged, in addition to a rush of euphoria that on some level sickened him.

A look of shock appeared on Arbormon's face as he dissolved into digicode and the Spirit of Wood flowed into Duskmon's being.

Duskmon shook his head to dispel the memory.

Blitzmon thrust his arm forward at one of the two Fladramon that were attacking him, but the fire dragon dodged and jumped up into the air and spun around, causing his tail to smash into Blitzmon's face. Blitzmon growled as lighting gathered in his fist.

"Knuckle Fire!"

Blitzmon yelped in annoyance as he felt the fireballs impact against the back of his armor.

The Fladramon that was in front of Blitzmon jumped up and kicked him in the chest. The force of the impact sent Blitzmon crashing into the ground. The fire dragon then jumped up and landed on Blitzmon's chest, and pulled his arm back.

Duskmon saw this and turned towards the Fladramon and Blitzmon, the eyes on his body glowing red. "Geist Abend!" Duskmon shouted, shooting off five red beams at a single point on the armor digimon's back, which caused the armor digimon to scream in pain as the beams connected, throwing him off of the

second hybrid.

Blitzmon jumped up and kicked the other attacking Fladramon in the head, causing the dragon to spit out blood as he wobbled backwards. The lightning digimon raised his fist up into the air, and lighting struck it, gathering around as if the fist were acting as a lightning rod. "Thor Hammer!" he shouted, before thrusting that arm into the Fladramon's stomach. The explosion from the detonation of the lighting energy ripped the attacking Fladramon in half. The Fladramon's eyes went wide and blank before he dissolved into digicode, which quickly shot into the lead Fladramon.

This caused Blitzmon's eyes to widen. He definitely wasn't expecting that to happen. It wasn't even as if the other Fladramon made a movement to even absorb the data.

Blitzmon turned towards Duskmon. "What happened?" he shouted.

"I don't know!" Duskmon shouted back, before he was hit by a stronger attack by the lead Fladramon, whose muscles seemed to bulge out more, and fire seemed to be brighter.

"Fire Rocket!" The lead Fladramon shouted, fire surrounding his body as he slammed into Duskmon's chest and knocked the warrior of darkness to the ground.

"Mega Blaster!" A voice shouted from the air as a golden beam of thunder struck the other Fladramon in the chest. The force of the blast tore him apart and he dissolved into Digicode, which shot up into the sky. After the digicode disappeared, a large creature that looked like a giant magenta beetle with red shoulder muscles, and four arms coming out of his body landed on the ground and grabbed Blitzmon, before moving and quickly grabbing Duskmon and shooting off into the sky.

The lead Fladramon looked up at the retreating digimon. "Another chosen," Fladramon muttered before a portal appeared behind him. He looked at his remaining teammate, a look of sadness appearing on his face as he saw him dissolve into digicode. The last Fladramon raised his arm, and the digicode flowed into his body, the data mixing with his own. He then stepped through the portal. "I'm going to need to get stronger. Much stronger." The portal then closed, leaving a group of confused reporters behind.

.o0o.

Takuya knew that he was not in a good situation. Chakkumon was on the ground in pain, barely managing to maintain his evolution.

And Takuya was unarmed and un-evolved. For some reason, he couldn't get himself to evolve, despite his constant attempts at trying. He needed to help Tomoki fight.

And yet he couldn't do a thing.

He dodged another punch from the one-eyed Fladramon, taking a brief look on Chakkumon, who had managed to bring himself off of the ground, only to be kicked back down by the other Fladramon. Blue digicode surrounded Chakkumon, which quickly subsided and produced a very bruised Tomoki.

The Fladramon raised his arm up and fire began gathering around it. Takuya's eyes widened when he realized what would happen if that fire hit the younger boy.

"Flower Cannon!" A female voice shouted, and a green burst of energy slammed into the Fladramon preparing to finish off Tomoki. The Fladramon went flying into a tree, and fell unconscious.

The one eyed Fladramon looked around, only to have another burst of green energy slam into him.

Takuya looked around, and saw a humanoid shape swoop in near him. Then he felt a female arm grab him around his waist and dart towards Tomoki. The figure grabbed Tomoki and took off into the sky and flew away from the battlefield.

Takuya couldn't get a view of the figure's face, and in all honesty, after the way that she saved him, he really didn't care that much.

To be continued...

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Author's Notes:

This chapter was written pretty fast for me.

Before anyone asks, three of the Fladramon in this chapter are still alive, although only one of them returned to the Digital World. And I corrected an error in the previous chapter. When Patamon said "Two years", he was supposed to say "One year."

Review Responses:

Alforce Zero: As you can see, it was Chakkumon and Takuya vs. two Fladramon, although Takuya didn't evolve. (I have a very good plot related reason for that.) Junpei did evolve a few chapters before he was originally going to though.

Tamer Terra: You'll be getting your wish next chapter.

EDIT: 10/14: More corrections, especially on Duskmon's attacks. Also added the bit about the reporters not mentioning Izumi's name. The main reason is because I forgot about this, and only realized it while doing this revision. The Hospital staff do know her name though.