Reprise of the Spirits

COVERING MY BUTTOCKS WARNING OF DOOM: This piece of fanfiction is rated "T" for violence, blood, and some language that soccer moms might not find appropriate.

VI:

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Takuya was jolted as the digimon who had grabbed him suddenly landed in the middle of an alleyway, before dropping both Tomoki and him on the ground. Takuya turned around.

"Are you alright?" The female digimon asked. Takuya blinked for a moment.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Takuya answered dumbly.

The digimon laughed. "You remind me a lot about an old friend of mine, Yagami Taichi."

Tomoki blinked. "How so?" he asked, massaging one of the bruises on his arm.

The digimon turned towards Tomoki. "Only your friend or Taichi would be stupid enough to fight against a digimon without evolving." Then something occurred to the digimon and she blinked, before looking over at Takuya. "Then again, it might not have been as stupid for you."

Takuya blinked, not knowing how to answer that. The digimon was suddenly consumed in Digicode, and both Takuya and Tomoki's eyes widened, fearing the worst.

They were about to be pleasantly surprised.

When the blue digicode subsided, a girl with long brown hair was standing in the digimon's place. She had brown eyes, and looked to be around fourteen years old. She was wearing a bright pink shirt and miniskirt, along with matching sandals. At both boys' shocked expressions, the girl laughed.

"Weren't expecting any other Chosen Children to exist, were you?" The girl questioned in a voice quite similar to a titter. Takuya nodded dumbly. "My name is Tachikawa Mimi."

"Himi Tomoki," Tomoki said. The young boy turned to Takuya and noticed a dumb look on the older boy's face. Tomoki frowned for a moment, and then pinched the older boy.

Takuya yelped and looked down at Tomoki. "Why'd you do that!"

"You looked like Junpei did when he looked over at Izumi during the earlier parts of our trip to the Digital World," Tomoki said smugly and simply.

"Oh." Takuya turned back towards Mimi. "Name's Kanbara Takuya."

"It's a pleasure to meet both of you." Mimi answered with a smile. "So while we're waiting for Koushiro to get here, why don't we get to know each other better?" She paused, thinking of a question to ask them.

Takuya wondered who this Koushiro was, and felt his teeth clench slightly. "So, who exactly is the leader of your group, Takuya-kun?" Mimi asked.

"Well, I was…" Takuya answered, trailing off.

"That's what I thought," Mimi replied. Tomoki was confused.

"Why would you think that?" the younger boy asked.

"Our leader also wore goggles and had spirits with the element of fire," Mimi answered, a frown gracing her face.

Takuya noticed this. "Is something wrong, Tachikawa-san?" Takuya asked. Before Mimi could actually answer, the group was interrupted as a giant magenta beetle that was carrying Kouichi and Junpei landed on the ground, looking rather beaten and exhausted.

Mimi looked over at the giant beetle digimon as Kouichi and Junpei slid down to the ground. "Could you make anymore noise, Koushiro?" Mimi asked as the beetle was consumed in Digicode and reverted to a boy around fourteen years of age with short reddish-brown hair. The boy, Koushiro, just shook his head. He was wearing a brown open shirt with a green t-shirt underneath it and brown shorts, along with sneakers.

"I think now isn't the time for jokes, Mimi-san." Koushiro answered.

Mimi pouted. "I thought I told you to drop the honorific."

Koushiro just shook his head, before turning towards Kouichi and Junpei, who had moved towards Takuya and Tomoki. "Now, I bet you two have a few questions to ask, but I think that it would be better if we explain everything first."

Mimi turned to the others, her face taking on a serious look. "We know about the digimon attacks over the last few days."

"Unfortunately the people behind the first two attacks aren't digimon. Well, not fully, at least." Koushiro added, shaking his head.

Kouichi's face took on a look of recognition. "You mean…"

"Yes." Koushiro answered. "The majority of the angel digimon are acting under the orders of a chosen child named Yagami Hikari. Two other chosen, two brothers named Ishida Yamato and Takaishi Takeru are also working for her."

"I think you guys know the latter two as Were Garurumon and Angemon." Mimi said.

Takuya gulped, while Kouichi's eyes narrowed.

"The three of them were on the same side as the two of us were four years ago when we were summoned into the Digital World." Koushiro explained. "Our mission was simple: stop a tyrant named Black War Greymon from taking over the Digital World. We fought against him numerous times, and our leader, Yagami Taichi, eventually gained the power of Hyper Spirit Evolution and evolved to War Greymon."

"But it wasn't enough." Mimi added sadly, while at the same time fidgeting. "Black War Greymon eventually defeated Taichi and killed him. At that point Hikari snapped and used the same spirits that Taichi had used to Hyper Spirit Evolve to Holy Dramon and finished Black War Greymon off."

Takuya's face went pale as he thought about what he would have to fight against if Hikari chose to fight against them. Koushiro noticed his worry.

"You don't have to worry about that." Koushiro said in a manner that made Takuya think that the older boy was reading his mind. "Hikari can't Hyper Spirit Evolve anymore. She doesn't have all the spirits that would be required for her form, and after evolving to that form once, the required spirits can't be changed."

"What do you mean?" Junpei asked.

"What Koushiro means is that Hikari can't Hyper Spirit Evolve because Koushiro and I have four of the Spirits that Hikari would need for Hyper Spirit Evolution." Mimi answered.

"And that Takeru and Yamato don't have any of the spirits used in the evolution in the first place." Koushiro added.

"But why did they attack Kouichi and Izumi?" Takuya asked.

"Hikari ordered Takeru to attack Kouichi because his evolution utilizes the element of darkness, and her perception has been skewered to the point where light is good, and dark is evil. As for attacking Izumi, she simply had the child form of Seraphimon. She assumed that Kouichi had 'brainwashed' him and the other two child level angel digimon, which is why they are 'saving' them." Koushiro answered bitterly.

After a moment of taking in the information that they had been given, something occurred to Junpei. 'Something isn't adding up here.' "Who has the last set of spirits that this Hikari needs for Hyper Spirit Evolution. I assume that she used both of your spirits, her own, and her brother's, but that leaves one set empty."

"That last set of spirits belongs to another chosen named Takenouchi Sora, who went missing shortly after Taichi's death." Mimi answered. "She may be part of Hikari's army, or she may not be, although if you see a female Fuugamon, Birdramon, or Garudamon in Hikari's ranks, they might be her."

"And there is another member of our group named Kido Jyou, who's currently watching things in the Digital World while we're here informing you of everything." Koushiro answered.

"So why aren't you two fighting alongside her?" Tomoki asked. Mimi frowned.

"We aren't fighting with her because she and the others on her team have gone nuts." Koushiro answered before Mimi could say anything. "You saw what Takeru did while looking for Kouichi, and before you ask, we know that from the twenty-four seven news coverage that's been on every news station in Japan."

"Not only that, but they also think that they're the only force of good left in all the world." Mimi answered. "Hikari's of the impression that if you're not helping her, you're evil."

Koushiro pulled out a magenta and blue digivice. "I think you four should get back to the hospital soon." Koushiro said. "Izumi should be waking up soon."

"How do you know that!" Junpei shouted.

Koushiro turned his attention to the other boy. "Because I saw the attack that hurt her on the news. An injury that I've suffered from before."

Mimi pointed outside the alleyway. "The back entrance of the hospital is that way." She said, before turning back to the group. "We'll stay in touch with you." She added.

Takuya nodded, before he and the others set out of the alleyway. Before they left, Mimi put a hand on Takuya's shoulder. Takuya turned his head to look at the older girl. "Your friends are alright." She said. Takuya blinked as Mimi removed her hand from his shoulder. Takuya nodded, before running off to catch up to his friends.

Koushiro looked over at them as they left. "Do you think they have a chance at stopping her?" he asked.

Mimi nodded. "They stopped Lucemon."

"After he destroyed the Digital World." Koushiro pointed out.

Mimi huffed in annoyance. "They killed Lucemon. If they can handle him, they can handle anyone."

.o0o.

Izumi opened her eyes and looked around. She was in the air and flying, green plains speeding by her. 'How did I end up here?' she asked herself. The last thing that she remembered was smashing into the ground during the battle against Pidmon.

Izumi's eyes widened. "Patamon!" the girl shouted, trying to turn around to look for the small child digimon, but he was nowhere in sight.

You don't have to worry about him. a soft feminine voice said. Izumi spun around, looking for the source of the voice. Patamon is fine.

"Who are you?" Izumi shouted.

The voice laughed. I'm part of you.

"Yeah, right." Izumi remarked dryly. "I'm sure I'd know about a strange voice if it was a part of me."

I am the warrior inside of you. the voice continued. It was I who allowed you to evolve to protect Patamon and your mother.

"If you're the warrior inside of me, why haven't I heard from you while I was in the Digital World?" Izumi asked, confident that she'd trapped this voice in its own lie.

While you were in the Digital World, you had access to the physical Spirits of Wind. This time around, you had to use the power inside of yourself in order to fight. As did Kouichi.

Izumi still didn't know what this voice was talking about.

Kouichi himself had a dream similar to this, only much more messed up. And erratic.

'I have to assume that this is fake.' Izumi thought.

I'M NOT FAKE!

Izumi flew backwards at that statement. "Okay, okay! You're not fake, I got it." the young girl said worriedly, her lilac fingerless metal-gloved hand coming up into her vision as she did so.

'Fingerless metal-gloved hand?' Izumi thought with confusion, before realizing that there was no need to be confused. She was flying, so she had to be in a digimon form.

But that didn't explain why she was wearing a fingerless glove.

I've been with you since you were still in your mother's womb.

"I thought you were me." Izumi remarked offhandedly, before noticing that she was almost over a lake.

Part of you. the voice corrected. That doesn't mean that you and I are the same parts of consciousness.

Izumi flew down to the edge of the lake and landed. The younger girl walked over to the edge, and looked down.

The face that was reflected on the water was covered in a bird-head-shaped mask, which was dark purple over the mouth area and light purple in the other areas. Long rainbow feathers were coming out of the top of the helmet, and extended down to where Izumi assumed her lower back was, as she couldn't see that part of her in the reflection. Two green leaf-like pieces of armor were over her arms, with golden metal wings on the side of it.

Izumi recognized the general shape of that face, as she had seen it before when Baromon showed them the battle against Lucemon.

Have you figured it out yet? The voice asked.

Izumi turned away from her reflection. "Yes, I have."

.o0o.

Takuya looked around from the corner of an alley, checking out for any stray reporters who would recognize him. To be totally honest, he wouldn't normally have bothered, but with the recent battles having passed, the four children had decided to split up to avoid dragging any extra attention to them, which Junpei and Kouichi would definitely manage to do.

After a few seconds of watching the passing citizens of Tokyo, Takuya figured that it was probably safe for him to start heading towards the hospital. Takuya stepped out of the alleyway, only to have someone bump into his side.

Takuya grimaced as his body suddenly decided that it was being electrocuted. This feeling only lasted for a few seconds at most. The brown haired boy turned towards the direction that he felt the impact from.

All Takuya noticed was that an older girl with shoulder length reddish-brown hair was running away from him. The boy thought about giving chase, but ultimately decided against it, and began heading towards the hospital.

He had to check on Kouji and Izumi, after all. Besides, why would a girl give him a mild electric shock anyway?

.o0o.

Izumi groaned in pain as she opened her eyes. She assumed she would have been on some kind of painkiller or something like that. She certainly knew that she could use it after that strange dream/pseudo-conversation with her 'inner warrior'.

'Vague bitch.' Izumi thought, not even caring that she was referring to someone that was part of her. She blinked as an image came into focus. Her mother was staring up at her face, with Patamon in her arms.

'What happened to me again?' Izumi questioned inside her head, before moaning in pain.

"Izumi!" Patamon shouted, jumping out of Yougo's arms, staying over the young girl's body by flapping his ears. "Are you alright?" the small digimon exclaimed a mixed look of worry and relief on his face.

"I think I'll be okay," Izumi managed to croak out. She once again wondered why she didn't have morphine or some other type of painkiller in her system. "I think whatever painkillers I'm supposed to be on ran out though." Izumi turned her head to look at the I.V. tube that was full of some kind of liquid.

She missed Yougo's look of confusion.

'That's strange.' Izumi thought. She turned her attention back to her mother. "How long was I out?" Izumi asked.

"Only a few hours." Yougo answered her daughter.

Izumi's face took on a look of shock. "Then why do I have a tube in my arm?" she asked groggily.

"For the painkillers." Patamon stated simply.

Yougo shook her head.

Izumi groaned. "Great." The blonde-haired girl stared at the ceiling for a moment before she decided on the question that she wanted to ask. "Anything interesting happen while I was out?"

Yougo answered her question, telling Izumi about the reporters who managed to catch Izumi evolving on tape, and the battle with Pidmon. She also told her daughter about the attack on the hospital that Kouichi and Junpei fought against.

Izumi sighed, realizing that there were a lot of things that she had to explain to her mother. Izumi then caught sight of the television, and gasped when she saw Takuya get hit by a blue humanoid dragon digimon's fire attack. "Can you make the television louder?"

Yougo frowned and turned to the television, and froze as she saw Tomoki evolve to Chakkumon, before seeing both him and a very human Takuya fighting off against another group of the attackers from before.

Patamon had a look of confusion on his face as he saw Yougo turn up the sound on the television and watched the news clips with interest.

Izumi frowned as she saw Takuya and Tomoki get grabbed by a female flower-themed digimon. 'Just great.' the girl thought. Before Izumi could say anything else, Junpei and Tomoki ran into the room.

Junpei paused when she turned to look over at both of the boys.

"Hey." Izumi said after a few seconds.

Junpei had a look of elation on his face. "You're okay!"

Izumi didn't even manage to blink as Junpei ran over to her bed and wrapped his arms around her in a tight hug. The girl blushed. "Junpei…" she said, blushing.

Tomoki shook his head.

Yougo coughed.

Junpei broke away from Izumi, blushing as well.

Izumi looked over at Tomoki, her blush fading a bit. "What happened with that strange flower-girl digimon?"

"Besides saving me and Takuya and turning out to be part of a group of other chosen with much more information about what's going on than we have, not much." Tomoki commented offhandedly. "Oh, and she can make Takuya act like Junpei."

Izumi laughed, while Junpei looked annoyed at Tomoki.

Yougo wanted to know what her daughter had gotten herself into.

.o0o.

Various emotions were going through Kanbara Yuriko's head, but anger wasn't one of them. Shock? Yes. Disappointment? Yes. Worry? Definitely. But anger wasn't one of them.

How could she be angry with her son for being caught by news reporters battling monsters? She was too busy worrying if he was even still alive.

Shinya looked over at his mother from the couch near the T.V. that both he and his mother were sitting on. "Mom? Aren't you going to call the police?"

.o0o.

"So that Angemon was human?" Kouji asked, looking over at both Takuya and Kouichi, who were seated in chairs on the side of the bed.

"Yeah." Kouichi muttered sadly. "The kid's supposed to be our age. The name's also familiar."

Takuya was being uncharacteristically quiet.

"Is something wrong?" Kouji asked, wishing that his ribs weren't broken.

"I hate this." Takuya answered quietly. "I feel so useless!" The brown haired boy clutched his fist for emphasis.

Kouji thought that he saw a spark of flame around Takuya's hands, but it was gone before he could confirm if it was even there or not.

Anyway, Kouji completely agreed with Takuya. From what he heard, both he and Takuya were currently the weakest links of the team.

Takuya turned to Kouichi. "Is this how you and the others felt when Kouji and I became Magna Garurumon and Kaiser Greymon?"

Kouichi nodded, before rubbing his head.

Kouji's eyes narrowed. "Are you alright?"

Kouichi shook his head. "I feel a little light-headed." the boy answered. "Maybe I wasn't as well as I thought. Or it could be from that Fladramon data I scanned during the battle."

Takuya looked shocked, but Kouji's reaction was the same. The younger of the twins was watching the news at the same time the attack was going on outside, and saw that event itself.

Takuya's shock left him. "I guess you won't be getting out of here tonight then." The boy stated.

"Guess not." Kouichi replied, deciding to move over to his bed. "You might want to check on Izumi."

Takuya nodded before he got out of the chair that he was sitting in. "I'll come back the next chance that I get." the boy said as he walked out of the room.

As Takuya started on his way to Izumi's room, he clutched his side and grimaced in pain.

.o0o.

Hikari turned away from her scrying crystal. Things were not going well. It was about time that she took care of things herself.

Hikari stood up out of her 'throne', a single blue strip of digicode surrounding one of her hands as she used the other to pull out a light pink and white digivice. The girl quickly brought her hand and the digivice together. "Spirit Evolution."

.o0o.

Izumi lied back down in her hospital bed, exhausted. She knew that she wasn't completely recovered from her battle with Pidmon. She turned to her mother.

"Why isn't dad here?" Izumi asked.

"Someone had to stay and watch the restaurant." Yougo replied. The woman would have said something else, but she noticed that Izumi had fallen asleep.

.o0o.

Takuya sighed as he hung up his cell phone again. He had been trying to call his parents to tell them about Tomoki's situation since they had left the hospital, but his parents and Shinya still weren't home, and he wanted to know why.

Suddenly, something that seemed to be a tear in the air materialized across the street. A tall woman in a very skimpy gold platemail-like outfit with four wings stepped out of the tear, before said tear vanished. Both Takuya and Tomoki instantly knew that she was a digimon, and were able to see the sharp sword holstered at her back, in addition to the small dagger at her side. A red scarp was wrapped around the digimon's face, and some cloth was on her body in the same place it was on Angemon.

Takuya thought the cloth was clearly there to increase the sex appeal of the angel digimon, not distract from it. He turned towards Tomoki. "Ready for a fight?" the older boy asked.

Tomoki turned to the boy that he looked up to as an older brother, and froze as he saw fire dance in the older boy's eyes. Tomoki nodded as he answered the question, the blue digicode already materializing around him.

Tomoki quickly evolved into Chakkumon, and lifted his snowball launcher.

Blue digicode appeared around Takuya's body. "Spirit Evolution!" Takuya shouted, his necklace with the symbol of Fire glowing red before the digicode consumed him. When the digicode subsided, Takuya had become an adult male, with red, white, and flame-decorated on his body and around his black pants. The gloves had gray pieces attached with holes in them attached. "Agnimon!"

The female angel digimon turned around, and both Agnimon and Chakkumon knew who she was, as if on instinct almost. The angel digimon was D'arcmon.

D'arcmon turned towards the two newly evolved digimon and drew her sword.

Agnimon and Chakkumon looked at the female digimon, preparing as much as they could for this fight.

D'arcmon charged, her sword raised up to strike.

To be Continued…

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Author's notes:

First off, I would like to announce that I have pre-reader for both this story and Eternal Conflict now, so the quality in regard to grammar errors and mistakes should be higher now. So thank shadowblack for his help with this chapter.

In this universe, a female Fuugamon is being used for Sora's H-Spirit evolution. Garudamon is her Double Spirit form. Which means that Yamato was using two spirits when he stopped Kouichi from killing Takeru in Chapter II.

And any spacing in a digimon's name like with Black War Greymon is due to how it is translated on the Digimon list that I use. As far as I can tell, the lack of spaces is an America/Dub thing.

Also readers should expect a delay after Chapter VII is completed and posted. In between school, college essays, writing an original short story, reviving Harry Potter and the Digital Plane with another author co-writing it, I simply won't have a lot of time.

Not to mention that I'm planning on finishing the next six chapters after VII. before I start posting them, which should give standard once a week updates until the story's completion at the end of Chapter XIII.

Review Responses:

Aestivate: Yeah, the season 01 kids exist and play an (obviously) important role. And Katou-san is Katou Juri, but she's the only Tamer's character who will appear, and even then it's only a small cameo or two. As for Daisuke, Miyako, Iori, and Ken, if they appear, they get the same deal. The Frontier kids are getting their asses kicked as it is.

Takuya: The Fladramon were actually a group of Fladramon. None of them were Daisuke. Either way, that list only shows that he isn't dead, but like I answered Aestivate above, he isn't important either.

coughkouichicough: Hikari and Takeru are alternate versions of the characters from Adventure 01. Needless to say if Canon Hikari and Takeru met with RotS Hikari and Takeru, they would not be amused, to say the least.