A/N: Chapter Three time! But before we get to the actual chapter, I have a few reviews to answer.
Earth Paw: The Impmon hybrid shall be explained in time. Kappa Ebisen intrigue me. I want to eat them but I know I wouldn't like them…the Japanese have some weird foods. Then again, lime flavored chips are kinda weird too.
Daughter Of Helba: Thank you. Kouichi does have some bad luck…especially now that Duskmon's after him.
GaliStar07: I've figured out I can't help myself when it comes to Naruto…And I don't think Kouichi would ever leave his little brother to pay his bill unless Kouji had wanted to pay it. Duskmon's coming, slowly but surely. Have to introduce someone to explain the situation first…Also, Duskmon is very busy. It's hard to get him to come on. He has all those late night talk shows to do, ya know? About it being weird…TT This is why I scare myself when I think.
Stephanie: Chapter shortness is one of my weak points. As for my writing technique…I don't pay attention in English class…maybe I should. I'll try better! J This chapter should be to your liking. It's a longie.
Thank everyone who reviewed! Keep the constructive comments coming!
"What the hell's a Digital Monster?" Aiko yelled at the boy.
"Quite a shard tongue their, I might have to cut it out later." The boy grinned. "But right now I have a duty to do." He held out his palm and a small sphere of fire appeared.
"Quick, get behind something!" Kouji yelled.
"There's nothing to get behind!" Aiko yelled back.
"Night of fire!" He threw the fireball towards the kids while smiling as impish as he could.
They scattered every which way, trying to avoid the fire. The two girls ended up behind a dumpster and the twins behind a bush.
"You can't hide 'cause Imp will find you!" The boy called out to them. Apparently his name was Imp.
At that moment both Akiko's and Aiko's cell phones began to ring. Both girls turned their heads towards the other with a look of fear in their eyes.
"There you are." Imp began running towards the dumpster.
"One, two, three!" The boys had found an abandoned trash can, which they hurled at Imp.
Imp was hit, and it slowed him down. But only so much so that the females could answer their phones.
"I'm kind of busy right now." Akiko whispered into hers when she opened it. Aiko had said nothing when she had answered hers. Yet, the same voice came out of both.
"A new danger approaches and is a threat to both the Digital World and the Human World." The voice was Ophanimon's. "You two must help be the guides that see through this time.
"Only by sacrificing something that belongs to you will the Digidestined of Light and the Digidestined of Darkness be able to conquer the evil. Do you want to help?"
"Yes!" Both girls cried.
"Thank you." Was Ophanimon's last words. A yellow light surrounded Aiko's phone while a purple light surrounded Akiko's.
"What's going on over there?" Kouichi had turned to see the two lights.
"You better be focusing more on what's happening here!" Imp readied another fireball. "Night of fire!" He threw the ball at them.
Kouichi jumped out of the way but the fire slightly scorched some of his shirtsleeve off. Kouji had been luck enough to escape untouched.
"Kouji-kun"
"Kouichi-kun!"
Both twins turned their heads to the two girls.
"Catch!" They yelled, throwing the D-Tectors towards the correct Digidestined.
When the boys caught their D-Tectors they noticed something. Small angel wings adorned the sides of Kouji's and small demi-wings were on the side of Kouichi's.
"Execute," Both boys began saying. "Spirit Evolution!"
After a moment of transforming, in the place of Kouji was the human spirit called Lobomon. In Kouichi's place was Lowemon.
"I don't know if I should call that weird or cool." Akiko tilted her head to the side.
"Shut up and help me cheer them on." Aiko snapped.
"Grrrrrr." Akiko shrunk away from Aiko.
"Can we really attack a human?" Lowemon asked.
"Can we really call him human?" Lobomon asked in return.
"Hurry up and attack! I have things to do!" Imp made another fire ball appear in his palm.
"No you don't!" Lowemon yelled, darkness gathering at his chest. "Shadow Meteor!" The energy of darkness raced at Imp.
"Wha! They're actually attacking me!" Imp's fire disappeared in his palm. "Duskmon!" He yelled as he was hit. The force of the attack pushed him from where he standing all the way to the building next to the lot. His body hit the building, and he bounced ever so slightly off of it, then dropped to the ground. He seemed to be unconscious.
"You did it!" Aiko cried and her and Akiko began running over to the two Digital Warriors.
"That was amazing!" Akiko said when they reached them. They had turned back into their human forms.
"But…how…" Kouichi was looking at his D-Tector.
"The girls not only gave up their cell phones, but a part of their souls as well." Ophanimon's voice emitted from their D-Tectors just as the wings on them contracted into the devices.
"We…gave up…a piece of…our souls?" Akiko asked nervously while clutching her chest.
"It was just a small part. They needed to be used so that the boys could Spirit Evolve in the Human World." Her voice stopped then.
"I don't get it." Aiko crossed her arms.
They were interrupted by loud sobbing. The whole group turned around.
Imp was curled up in a ball where he had fallen, holding himself while he cried.
"I don't want to go back." He cried, his body shaking. "Duskmon…TRAITOR!" His ears and tail had disappeared, signaling he wasn't going to fight any more.
The students walked over to him. Akiko bent down beside him and put a hand on him. Imp jerked his head towards her, his green eyes filled with tears.
"What about Duskmon?" Kouji asked in a harsh voice.
"Traitor…" Imp mumbled.
"What about Duskmon!" Kouji yelled his question this time.
"You're scaring him!" Aiko yelled back at him.
"Please, explain to us." Akiko said in a comforting voice.
Imp looked up at her, tears still flowing. "Explain what?" His voice was shaking.
"Why you're here…why you call this Duskmon person a traitor…anything…everything…" Akiko rubbed his back gently.
Imp's eyes softened and he sat up. His body was still shaking at he leaned his now bruised and cut body against the wall. "It's…a long story." He managed to say.
"We'll listen." Kouichi sat down next to Akiko. Aiko and Kouji followed his example.
His eyes softened more so. "It…started when I was four…or three…I can't remember…" Imp pulled his knees towards his body, no matter how much it hurt. He needed something to hug.
"I had…black hair back then…and brown eyes…" He recalled it very well. "I was playing at the park when they came…"
"They?" Akiko asked.
"The ones in army trucks." He hugged his legs closer to his body. Even though he was among people his own age, he felt like a little kid again.
"They came and took me away. Put me in one of the trucks. I was taken to my house. They opened the windows so I could see my parents in the living room. They had been given drugs to paralyze their bodies. I tried to go to them…" Tears came out again. "But they wouldn't let me. They tipped a candle over in the house, and set it on fire. They made me watch my parents being burned down along with my house. It was to show me that I had nothing to go back to. So that I had no reason to try and escape.
"After that, they put me in the back of the truck that looked like a moving one…except with the army's symbol on it. I didn't have any idea where I was going…I could only cry for the whole time. They do that to every test subject. Take them from their homes and kill their family."
"Why didn't they take kids from orphanages?" Aiko asked.
"Paper work. It's best just to make sure there's no trace of them left. Not even their name." His body began shaking violently.
"When we got there…to that place…I was first injected with medicine…I don't know what it was…But it was to help process me…Then I was put into a cell. The next morning they made me do all kinds of things. Like write 'hat' over and over. Then I ran, and drank, and ate. They recorded the way I did everything. Then I was put back into the cell…
"The next day they led me into a room that was like an operating room. They put a gas mask on me, and that's all I remember after they put it on me. But when I woke up back in my cell, I had ears…and a tail. There was also a voice in my head. It didn't sound like my voice. It was Impmon's." He stopped to sob for minute.
Akiko took out her handkerchief and handed it to him. He wiped his eyes with it gratefully. When he tried to hand it back, she let him keep it.
"It's horrible. Digimon's souls come in the form of a Digital Code…and when that code is put into your body…that soul stays there. Even if the human goes into the Digimon's form…its soul stay hidden.
"For the next nine or ten years they trained my body to accept the Digimon inside of me. They trained my fighting skills so that I would be ready for combat when the time came. When Lucemon tried to take over the Human World, we were assembled…all the test subjects. But you, the Digidestineds, defeated him. They were enraged. Until He came…
"Duskmon came…but in the form as a statue. They needed someone to be his vessel." Kouichi shivered. He knew what it was like to be Duskmon, and he didn't like it. Imp continued. "So they took a boy…about eleven at the time…and suppressed all his memories, his heart, and his soul. They let Duskmon enter his body.
"When they discovered that Duskmon was powerful…they let him command as many of us as he wanted. I was among them. But Duskmon wasn't as powerful as he was before. He needed an extra boost. The Digidestined of Darkness." He gave a helpless look at Kouichi.
"For years they tried to track down him…Even with their technology to actually get into the Digital World, they couldn't find him. But now, three years later, Duskmon found him. Here, in Tokyo. He sent us out to get you…" He looked up at Kouichi again, still not daring to speak his name.
"He told us…that you wouldn't attack. So I was sent to…collect you. There are others that will come after you…and they're much stronger…" Imp finished.
"That's…horrible…" Akiko muttered.
"Why does the government know about the Digital World?" Kouji asked.
Imp shook his head while he shrugged. "We weren't told anything besides what I've told you." "I didn't understand any of that." Aiko whispered to Akiko.
"I don't either." Akiko whispered back.
"I don't want to go back there…they'll refine me…" Imp pulled legs to his chest in such a tight manner that he could hardly breathe.
"Refined?" Kouichi asked.
"They'll try and take Impmon out of me…and put a new Digimon in." He began shaking. "No one has ever survived refinement."
"Then stay with us." Akiko put her hand on top of his.
He looked up at her with tears in his eyes.
"How do we know he won't betray us?" Kouji asked.
"Those tears…they're real." Akiko replied. "I'll take him in if no one else will. But I can't go home with a thirteen year old boy."
"I can go like this!" In a puff of violet smoke Imp transformed into his Impmon form.
"You look like a stuffed animal." Aiko commented.
"That'll be perfect!" Akiko clasped her hands together.
Imp smiled and threw himself at Akiko. She was surprised when he hugged her…no, when he clinged to her.
…To Be Continued…