Welcome to the next chapter everyone!

In this chapter, Mountains and helping hands.

Also, I'm adding in a twist with our dear Royal Knights, let's just say we'll be seeing them soon.

I do NOT own Digimon, just my Oc's and story idea!

Off we go!


Chapter 5: Mountains vs Moles


It's been a few days since Erza and JP got their spirits, everyone is making progress! I'm still not sure if we're on the right track to the Forest Kingdom but Bokomon said there might a shortcut through the mountains. So, mountains here we come!

NIGHTTIME

Blake hums as he sat leaning against a tree trunk as he listened to the sounds of the wind through the trees while the fire crackles away, he looks over at the camp they made for the night. Everyone had eaten and managed to have a small wash in the river nearby, with the girls going first while the guys went on lookout duty, and then they swapped over.

Takuya, Zoe, JP, Daisuke, and Teresa were asleep on the ground on a bed of leaves with Bokomon and Neemon nearby while Erza was sleeping up in a tree with not a care in the world. He had found a comfy spot to sleep in at the base of a nearby tree.

It's been 3 days since they left the wind factory, progress towards the Forest Terminal was slow but at least they were covering ground. Blake hums opening up a holo-screen and typing a few things in making a radar appear, the line moves in a continuous circle but showed no signs of digimon nearby.

He set it to go off if any digimon got too close for comfort, he hums leaning back and going to sleep.

NEXT DAY

IN THE MOUNTAINS

"Are you sure this minecart can get you guys through the mountain?" Daisuke asked as she looked over the metal cart.

They were taking a shortcut through the mountains that Bokomon said would help them but along the way, JP found some Trailmon tracks and an old minecart, so Takuya suggested they use that to get to the other side quicker. Everyone was all for it but Erza said it could only hold 6 to 7 people at max, so Blake suggested they spirit evolve, and by that he meant himself, Erza, and Daisuke.

Daisuke was all for it, she didn't exactly trust the metal cart, plus she wanted to spend more time as a digimon.

"I'm sure we'll be fine, we'll meet you on the other side," Takuya said as he hops into the cart.

"Okay, if you guys need any help just spirit evolve and send a fireball up into the sky or something," Erza said waving her hand around as she pulls out her D-tector.

"Will do!" Teresa said as she got in.

Blake chuckles as he pulled out his D-tector and spirit evolves into WargreymonX, he moved his head from side to side before rolling his shoulders to get a few kinks out. He looks over as Erza became Xeniamon and Daisuke became Hikarimon, the angel sighs as she flexed her wings.

"Enjoy the ride guys," Hikarimon said with a wave as the minecart began moving away.

Once their friends were out of sight Hikarimon turns to her friends, she felt more at ease now. WargreymonX nods as he retracted his metal claws while Xeniamon dismissed her battle-ax, she did a few stretches as Hikarimon dismissed her own blade.

"So, ready for some running and fun?" Hikarimon asked with a smirk.

"Yeah, let's run wild for a bit," WargreymonX said making Xeniamon nod.

"Let's go then!" Hikarimon said as she tucks her wings close and took off running into the forest and rocky are of the mountains.

"Hey! No head starts!" WargreymonX yells giving chase making Xeniamon laugh as she began running.

The trio laughed as they ran enjoying the feeling of freedom as they weaved through trees and jumped over rocks, Hikarimon grins as she jumps up high and lands in a tree. She gave a teasing remark to Xeniamon which prompted a game of tag with their abilities, WargreymonX gave a small growl as Xeniamon lands on a bolder with a laugh.

'Let's see you laugh at this!' WargreymonX thought as he ran at the bolder, unseen by him his right hand began glowing white on his palm.

"Rah!" WargreymonX yelled as he thrusts his hand forward and strikes the bolder.

Only for both himself and Xeniamon to yell in shock as the moment his hand connected with the bolder a small explosion rang out in a flash of white light, smoke filled the air as Hikarimon looked on in shock. When the smoke clears it showed both of her friends were fine but there was a huge split and cracks in the bolder from where WargreymonX struck it.

"What just happened?!" Xeniamon asked jumping down.

"I-I dunno, I was just focused on bolder," WargreymonX said looking at his right hand in shock.

"Did you use a move?" Hikarimon asked walking over.

"No, not one, though I feel like I've used one?" WargreymonX said confused as he looks at the bolder.

"Hm," Xeniamon hums as she looks at the damage.

"Well, if you didn't use a move you already have...did you make a new one by accident?" Xeniamon asked looking over at her male friend.

"Is that even possible?" Hikarimon asked holding her hip.

"It might be, we are warriors of elements or certain things like I'm the warrior of energy, hang on, I wanna test something," WargreymonX said as he looks at the bolder.

Hikarimon and Xeniamon step back as WargreymonX held up his right arm, he clenched his hand into a fist and focused. His eyes narrowed for a moment, then to the girl's amazement, his fist began glowing a bluish-white before he yells and surged forward punching the bolder this time making small chunks go flying.

"That worked!" WargreymonX said pulling back with a smirk.

"What did you do?" Hikarimon asked making WargreymonX move away from the bolder.

"I focused my energy into my fist and pictured myself hitting the bolder with that energy," WargreymonX explains holding up his fist.

"Really? Hang on," Xeniamon said as she went over to the bolder and focused, she held up her right fist and focused.

A few seconds later her fist glows white as she shot forward hitting the bolder making larger cracks appear, the glow left her hand as she grins pulling back.

"Awesome! You know what this means?!" Xeniamon said excitedly.

"What?" Hikarimon asked holding her hips.

"We can make new moves! New attacks to keep our enemies on their toes," Xeniamon said fist-pumping the air.

"It will be hard but worth it," WargreymonX said pleased while Hikarimon nods flexing her wings as she looks up at the sky.

"We should get moving, we need to find a place to camp for when the night sets in, it's already evening time," Hikarimon said pointing at the sky.

"Right," Her friends said as the trio took off to find a nice place to rest up for the night.

LATER THAT NIGHT

It was the night the early hours of the night, the sun has not long set leaving the three warriors to sit around a campfire they made while eating some meat apples WargreymonX found. The three talked and had a laugh at some jokes, WargreymonX messed around with abilities and discovered he could control the fire making it dance around and getting Xeniamon excited about what other abilities they could do.

After eating Hikarimon lay on a tree branch as she settles down to sleep while Xeniamon lay on the ground with WargreymonX keeping watch, he would switch over with Hikarimon later.

However, this was not meant to be as Hikarimon was about to drift off to sleep a cold feeling washed over her. She gasped sitting up and flaring her wings out as she looks around, on the ground Xeniamon sat up with a growl while WargreymonX stood up looking around for the threat.

"Did you feel that?" Hikarimon asked jumping down.

"Yeah, something bad is happening," Xeniamon said tense.

Then the sky lit up making the trio look up in time to see a ball of fire explode into the air, Hikarimon's eyes widen as she remembers what she said to Takuya before the groups split up.

"The fireball, the others are in trouble! Hurry!" Hikarimon said spreading her wings and taking flight.

WargreymonX grabs Xeniamon and shot into the air following the angel, they followed the direction the fireball came from until they heard the sounds of yelling and fighting. Hikarimon flew over the side of the mountain to see a village built into the side where Agunimon, Sandamon, and Lobomon were fighting a gnome creature who was digging through the mountain while Yukimon and Kazemon were doing something in the distance.

She narrows her eyes as she held up her arm summoning a golden and red bow, she pulls the string back making a crystal white arrow appear that glowed with power.

"Holy Arrow!" Hikarimon yells firing her attack and also announcing her presence.

The gnome digimon yells as the arrow hit his hammer making him stumble and fall down a bit before digging into the mountain once more, Agunimon looks over relived at seeing his cousin.

"Hikarimon! Nice timing," Agunimon said making the angel nod as WargreymonX appears and drops Xeniamon down next to Sandamon.

"Ready to fight! So, whos our opponent?" Xeniamon asked getting right to the point.

"We're actually facing the warrior of Earth but evil, his name is Grumblemon," Agunimon said as Xeniamon pulled out twin ax's this time, steel silver with brown leather handles and the hazard marking on the blades.

"Earth eh? That explains the gnome appearance," Hikarimon said as she de-summons her bow and got her sword out.

"He's irritating," Lobomon said as Grumblemon appears.

"More spirits to take! This be fun!" Grumblemon said making WargreymonX sweatdrop.

"I see what you mean, his vocabulary is terrible," WargreymonX said before grinning as he shot forward his fist glowing as he decided to use his new move.

"Focus punch!" WargreymonX yelled swinging at Grumblemon who yells going back into his hole as WargreymonX hit where he once was creating a small crater in the mountain.

"Whoa! What was that?!" Sandamon asked as Grumblemon pops back up trying to swing at Agunimon who jumps away as Hikarimon flew down and swung at the evil warrior locking hammer to sword.

"We made a discovery! Tell ya later!" WargreymonX yelled as Grumblemon pushed Hikarimon back and went underground again.

"This is like a demented game of whack-a-mole!" Xeniamon said growling as she looks for where Grumblemon will appear next.

"Guys! The Numemon are safe!" Kazemon yelled as Bokomon and Neemon waved to them from some rope ladders.

"Thanks! Now to stop Grumblemon!" Agunimon yelled as he runs and jumps up a rope ladder with Sandamon and Lobomon and began climbing to higher ground while Hikarimon grabs Xeniamon's hand and flew up with WargreymonX as it began raining.

"Just great!" Sandamon said before noticing something.

Water and dirt were washing down the mountainside, it gave the warrior of thunder an idea.

"WargreymonX hit the mountainside!" Sandamon called over to the warrior of energy who looks at him.

"Why?" He asked as Grumblemon appears yelling as he went to swing at WargreymonX.

"Nevermind! Here goes nothing, Gaia Force Zero!" WargreymonX yelled his dramon killer gauntlets glowing red with fire as he condensed his Gaia Force attack and struck the mountain above Grumblemon.

WargreymonX pulls back as Grumblemon laughs at him.

"Nice short dorkus," Grumblemon said before gasping as the mountain began shaking, he looks up right as the rocks and ground above gave way and came rushing down the mountainside taking Grumblemon with it.

"Nice idea Sandamon," WargreymonX said giving the thunder warrior a wave before a glow got everyone's attention.

"What's that?" Yukimon asked as they saw a ton of fractal code inside the now exposed mountainside from WargreymonX's hit.

"Uh, oops!" WargreymonX said rubbing the back of his head, too bad mountains don't have property insurance to fix something like this.

"Oh no, Grumblemon!" Kazemon cried as Grumblemon reappears near the fractal code.

"Oh! Hehehe, look like I find what I wanted anyway!" Grumblemon said as he pushed out and lands on a rocky ledge below.

"Thank you, I never find without you! Now get rid of you!" Grumblemon said as he held up a totem.

"He has another spirit!" Hikarimon yelled worried as data surrounds Grumblemon.

"Execute! Spirit evolution! Gigasmon!" Grumblemon yelled as the data fades away to show a big golem-like beast in his place making everyone gasp or yell in shock.

"Whoa! Ugly!" Xeniamon yelled as Grumblemon jumps up spinning around.

"Quagmire Twister!" Gigasmon yelled as he spun around and went towards the flying warriors who dodged out of the way and hit the ladders sending Agunimon, Lobomon, Sandamon, along with Bokomon, and Neemon falling down.

"Frozen tundra!" Yukimon yelled as Kazemin swung her down letting Kazemon fly over and catch Sandamon.

Yukimon grabs the ground and creates thick chunks of ice for Agunimon and Lobomon to grab while Sandamon grabs Bokomon and Neemon, WargreymonX growls as he flew at Gigasmon.

He slams into Gigasmon, pulling his arm back and punching the evil warrior making a huge gash across his right cheek. Gigasmon growls before ducking a flying ax aimed at his head thanks to Xeniamon, Gigasmon grunts picking WargreymonX up and throwing him into the air.

"Quagmire Twister!" He yelled jumping up and spinning around before hitting the warrior of energy making him yell in pain as a fist slammed into his side.

'Not good!' WargreymonX thought as he felt an intense pain in his side.

He was sent into Xeniamon who caught him, he grunts holding his side as Hikarimon's wings glow preparing to attack. Gigasmon saw this and jumps into the air, his arms raised high.

"No, you don't! Techtonic slam!" He yelled coming back down and hitting the female angel making her scream in pain as her back and wings were struck full force.

"Hikarimon!" Xeniamon yelled as they began dropping.

"Cousin!" Agunimon yelled in worry at the sight.

Hikarimon passed out from the pain, Xeniamon thinking fast summons her polearm ax and lodges it into the mountain, she lands on it and held onto WargreymonX and Hikarimon. She looks up as Gigasmon became Grumblemon again, he taunts them but the warrior of Hazard was too busy trying to save her friends.

She could only watch on as Grumblemon went back to Gigasmon and claimed the mountain's fractal code making everything shake. Xeniamon yells as her ax came loose making her fall, the last thing she saw was the others falling and the mountain slowly vanishing before blacking out.

HOURS LATER

"Ugh," WargreymonX groans as he felt himself waking up.

Everything hurt! His vision fades in and out as the sleep slowly left him, along with the ability to block the pain in his side. He grunts blinking his eyes as he grew adjusted to the light levels, he began to notice it was morning time.

'Morning?' WargreymonX thought as he noticed he was laying down on a bed.

He blinks noticing his surroundings it was a nice room, large but modest, it looked like a place where meetings took place. He went to sit up only to hiss and hold his side, he looks down and noticed he was lacking his chest, shoulder, and arm armor but also his gauntlets. His chest was bandaged and he could smell something sweet coming from them, a healing ointment maybe?

"Ah, your awake," A voice said making WargreymonX look up.

The digimon that entered was female by their voice, she was tall around 2 heads taller than Agunimon currently but after learning from Bokomon that some mega-level digimon could alter their size he didn't know if this was her true height. Her armor gave off a knightly feel, she was mainly pink, dark pink, and yellow with a yellow shield on her right arm that had a blue gem in the middle of a pink cross and yellow ribbons coming from her armor. Her face couldn't be seen due to the helmet she had on.

"Who are you?" WargreymonX asked warily making the pink digimon hold up a hand and take her shield thing off.

"Relax, I'm not an enemy, my name is Crusadermon I'm a mega-level digimon and a Royal Knight," Crusadermon said giving a small bow of her head as she introduced herself.

"Ah, I'm currently WargreymonX the Warrior of Energy," WargreymonX said nodding in greeting as Crusadermon moves to check on his bandages.

"Your lucky you and your friends landed close to our village, otherwise these injuries would have become a serious problem," Crusadermon said taking the bandages off to show a bruise on WargreymonX's right side.

"My friends?" WargreymonX asked making Crusadermon gesture behind her.

WargreymonX looks over to see Hikarimon laying on her front with her wings resting on chairs and her back covered in bandages while Xeniamon was sleeping on another bed. She lacked her helmet showing off a red-skinned-humanoid reptile face of a young woman, she had a slight snout with her jaw and down the front of her throat being white. Her head had a short pixie-cut spiky hairstyle in white with two black stripes on her cheeks, her ears looked like normal human ears but the top of her ears resembled fins? Or bat wing tips? It was hard to tell at the moment, the right side of her head was also bandaged.

"Wha? Ah, right, Grumblemon," WargreymonX said as he remembers the fight.

"So you ran into the corrupted warrior, he did some damage to you," Crusadermon said getting up to grab some more bandages while putting a paste on them.

"We were doing fine until he digivolved into this huge golem-like beast and surprised us," WargreymonX said as he managed to sit up fully.

"Sounds like he digivolved to an ultimate level in power," Crusadermon said walking back over and re-wrapping his chest.

"Definitely, so...we landed near your village?" WargreymonX asked making the female digimon nod.

"Yes, my friend found you with two of the village defenders, your hazard friend over there took a nasty hit to the head but she still managed to give a wisecrack at Dynasmon," Crusadermon said amused making WargreymonX shake his head.

"Sounds like Xeniamon alright, she a tough human and digimon," WargreymonX said as he shifts letting Crusadermon tie the bandages off.

"Our healer took care of most of the damage but you still need to take it easy, this ointment should speed things up," Crusadermon said leaning back.

"So, the rumors of kids becoming digimon are true?" Crusadermon asked curiosity in her voice.

"Yep, I would show you but...you know," WargreymonX said gesturing to himself with a chuckle making Crusadermon nod.

"Maybe later, so, tell me! What is the human world like?" Crusadermon asked her ribbons twitching as she holds her legs looking a tidbit excited if the warrior was guessing right.

"Well," WargreymonX went to speak but got interrupted by the door to the building opening up, he looks over to see a big digimon walk in.

He was mainly white with golden decal and greyish-blue on his hands, his palms had gems in them, and he had two white curved horns on his head and two big wings on his back. He looked like a fighter and gave off a dragon feel. His red eyes look at him before moving to Crusadermon who sighs getting up from the chair.

"I'll be with you now, WargreymonX this is Dynasmon, my friend and fellow Royal Knight," Crusadermon introduced making WargreymonX nod in greeting which Dynasmon returned.

"Greetings," He said before going over to another side of the room.

WargreymonX lay down about to try and relax when his ears picked up the two knights' conversation, he hums trying not to be rude but he couldn't help but listen in.

"Any trace of them? Anything at all?" Crusadermon asked sounding worried.

"None, not even a footprint, it's like they just up and left," Dynasmon said with a heavy sigh sounding tired.

"Kote was talking about exploring the caves maybe he and Wiz went there?" Crusadermon asked making Dynasmon shake his head.

"We can try but I wouldn't get my hopes up," Dynasmon said making Crusadermon shake her head.

'Who are they on about? Is someone they know missing?' WargreymonX thought as he stares out of the window he was facing.

He sighs focusing on recovering faster, the sooner he did that the quicker he and his friends could return to their group, as the warrior of energy went into a meditative state the two Royal knights left the room to sort out a disturbance nearby their home.


Done!

So, who do you think Wiz and Kote are? Hmm, all that will be revealed later on!

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In the next chapter, the gang meets back up.

Until then, Ja Ne!