MK25:hello again. welcome to my fic, tLoD. Time for some action!
Grady:To the extreme!
MK25:Did you really have to quote X-play?
Grady:Yes.
MK25:whatever. anyways, the moment you've all been waiting for, the first battle. A few things to mention. In the battle, the two fighting are facing there back at Primary Village(you did know that they were at Primary Village, right?). Right now, the music I'm listening to is giving me ideas for to fight. God, I love this song. Also, in case you forgot, Will, Chris, Karina, Gavin, and Luna were shown that they had crystals and now they wear them around their as well. And lastly, thank you stratigist for bringing it up, I had a few mistakes in my last chapter with the word are, and I did notice this.
Grady:And you think i'm crazy? you just told everyone you like the Me-
MK25:Zip it, and get to the disclaimer.
Grady:Fine. Today's disclaimer says...

Disclaimer:I don't own digimon or LoD copyrights. however, I do own a copy of LoD and the characters Grady(Grady:YOU DON'T OWN ME!), Luna, Gavin, Will, Chris, Karina, and Luci. Also, I'm running out of ideas for the others digimon so I may create a few new digimon, which I own.

Grady:...that! was that the reason why you made this fic, cause you had a copy of LoD?
MK25:no, it just came to me like all my ideas do, in my dreams.
Grady:yet you have a lack of originality though. Bravo!
MK25:Shut up before I get the hammer! Now, what was I gonna say... oh yeah! Lights, keyboard, ACTION!

Chapter 4:The first battle

Various amounts of Flymon, Snimon, Stingmon(a/n:sorry, Wormmon fans.), and Honeybeemon were closing in on the 5 digidestined and 2 humanoid digimon(a/n:Grady and Luci). Grady and Luci were already in a fighting stance and the others ran for cover. As they neared one hundred yards, Luci flew over to them and went on the offensive with Grady right behind. "Dark strike!" Luci shouted these words and disappeared to end up behind the pack to get a good amount of enemies. 15 fell after her attack, and Grady started a shocking attack. "Atomic thunder ray!" Grady shouted these words and a thunderstorm came and hit Grady with a powerful bolt. Grady absorbed the lightning and channeled it out of his hands as arcs of electricity aimed at various Stingmon and Flymon. one of the bolts barely missed Luci, but she didn't notice much. after the attack, approxamitely 30 digimon burst into data.

Meanwhile, the others watched in amazement as the two took down digimon after digimon. They then noticed that many of the digimon hiding decided to come out and help them. But, as a Harpymon, Meramon, and Gotsumon passed by, Will's, Gavin's, and Chris's crystals began to glow, showing that it has chosen a partner. "I guess those guys are our partners." Said Chris in a calm voice. Luna, however, was outraged by this.
"How come you guys get partners before us! I can't believe this!" Luna nearly screamed before Karina stopped her.
"Lun, I'm sure our time will come."
"You think so?"
"I know so!" Karina said this and Luna immedeitly calmed down and shut up.

"Luci, about 150 more coming in a 3:00 and 9:00." Grady informed Luci that more digimon were coming in at their left and right.
"Crap, we're surronded." Luci growled.
"No we're not! help is on the way!" Grady pointed back to Primary Village and saw that many rookie and champion digimon were running or flying toward them.
"How far are the attackers?"
"They're retreating!" The new attackers immedeitly ran see how many digimon were coming to help the two. Seeing this, Grady fell to the ground and morphed back into a human boy with Elecmon standing by his side with Luci doing the same and returning to herself Cerberumon.

"What a rush," Elecmon started. "I've never felt anything like it! I mean, joining with a human! It was amazing!"
Grady got up to a sitting position and told Elecmon that he was sure that they would feel that rush many more times before the others ran over to them.

"That battle was awesome!" Gavin said enthusiasticly to Grady. "I can't wait to feel what that's like.""Well, It'll drain ya if it doesn't hurt ya, you know?" Grady turned to Luci as he finished what he had to say.
"Yes, but during the fight, I felt three new strengths being unlocked."
"So did I, Luci! do you think that it could be that-" Grady was trying to finish when his buddy interupted him.
"We found our partners? Yeah. Me, Chris, and Will found that our crystals glowed as three certain digimon passed by to help you out."
"Let me geuss," Cerberumon started. "One was a humaniod bird, another looked like a human torch, and the last one was completely made out of rocks, right?"
"How did you know?" Will inquiried the three headed dog digimon.
"He's been here all his life." Chris answered Will's question. "He knows much more about this world than any of us. He's probably even been in many battles before we came."
"You are correct, I have had many travels and have seen many things before you have come. Also, I should introduce them to you. Your new partners are also friends of mine."
"How lucky we are." Luci said rubbing the fur Cerberumon's head in all sorts of directions playfully. At least it was nice to know for them that she had some happiness.
"Yes. Anyway, I would like you to meet Harpymon, Meramon and Gotsumon."

"You said something about us, Cerberumon?" Meramon overheard this and came over, the ground crackling as he walked.
"Yes, I did. Apparently, You, Harpymon, and Gotsumon have partners like I do." Cerberumon told his firey friend.
"Ah, this is good to know. after seeing how formidable you are in battle, we all have been waiting for the chance to travel with you, And it seems that fortune has shined upon us."
"That's right, Meramon," Harpymon flew in from above them to land in front of the new digidestined. "I'm sorry for eavesdropping but I couldn't resist."
"Well, I think you got the dropping part down." Luna said with a nervous grin after seeing Harpymon's talons.
"She's right Harpymon," a voice said. The source of the voice jumped of Harpymon to reveal a Gotsumon. "You kind of need to stop doing that. It get's kind of dizzy."
"That's just about all I hear from you when you ride on my back. Nag, Nag, Nag!"
"Enough, you two. let's at least go greet our new partners." While Meramon said this, the crystals of the three boys rose out of their pockets and pointed to their new partners. Gavin's pointed toward Meramon, Will's toward Harpymon, and Chris's toward Gotsumon. They walked up to the crystals first to grab them and then to their new companions.

Gavin and Meramon introduced themselves and then got into a conversation about Meramon's flames. Will and Harpymon introduced themselves and then decided to get to know a little more about each other. Chris and Gotsumon just said their names and nothing more.

"I think Chris and Gotsumon are going to get along just fine." Grady commented. "Well, at least we'll get some resting time, cause I'm beat from that battle."
Meramon took notice of Grady's actions. "Can you excuse me, for one moment?"
"Sure." Gavin replied happily.
"Thanks." Meramon said as he walked over to Grady. When he got there, he had a few things to say to Grady.

"Hey!" Meramon said.
Grady got back up from his laying position.
"Grady, am I right?"
Grady nodded.
"Well, the reason I came over is that, I wanted you have these." Meramon said as he pulled a clearly used, but intact pair of goggles.
"Why?" Grady simply inquiried the humaniod flame.
"No team is complete without a leader, And this is how we know who the digidestined. You seem like the perfect candidate."
Grady was given these goggles and, surprizingly, they weren't that hot at all. "Thank you, Meramon."
Meramon started to walk away when he turned his head back to Grady. "Just, don't let it get to your head." He said these final words and walked back to Gavin.

"What was that about?" Gavin asked his new friend.
"I was just dubbing him leader."
"Why? anyone else could of made a good leader. Why him?"
"It's hard to explain." Meramon said while looking at Grady put on his new goggles.

He then noticed that the sun was setting. He then procesded to shout to the group "I think we should set up camp here!"
"Why!" Luci hollered back to Meramon.
"It's dangerous to be traveling at night! Besides, everyone could use a good night's rest so that they'll be alert for tomorrow."
"I go get us some food." Cerberumon told his partner this and ran off into the woods.

Somewhere in the digital world, A dark figure was watching their every. "So, they managed to pass the first test. No matter, they will soon meet the same fate as the ones before them." The evil figure then proceeded to laugh maniaclly.

Grady:Scary. MK25:Watch Scream, then you'll know scary. Anyway, so that you people won't keep saying "What are you talking about when you said that." If I remember correctly, my thing for her said that her clothing choice seemed to know no happiness, am I wrong?
Grady:No.
Mk25:Okay then. now, a couple more things. I don't mind my stories not getting reviews or that they do get reviews. I just at least want people to read this story.
Grady:what else?
MK25:I can't think of Digimon for Luna and Karina, so if you have ideas contact me at my email address. I'd love to put it in this, but it keeps getting edited out. so, just click the link Maniakkid25 at the top of the page and click the link that says eMail