Destined Tamer

This story is cowriten by Drager and Demino. We do not own digimon.

Chapter 4

Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, Taichi groaned as he felt Agumon lying across his leg, the loss of blood flowing into it making it all cold and numb. "Hey buddy, wake up will ya?"

Yawning in response, Agumon grunted as he rolled off Tai's leg, staring out through the open doorway as he slowly began to frown and wake up. "Tai, we got company, Renamon's here." His words true as the humanoid fox like digimon stood calmly outside the building, Rika next to her in a trench coat. "Ah, I don't think they're here to chat."

Smirking darkly, Renamon began to walk forward, her hands lifting up into a battle ready stance. "How right you are, this time Agumon, we really will fight!"

"Come on," Tai said, "I just woke up."

"So what," Renamon said.

"Are there any rules?" Tai ask.

"What are you afraid," Rika mock.

Renamon ran at Agumon. Agumon slid to the right and release his pepper breath. Renamon jump from the attack. The moment her first foot thought the ground, two claws wrap around her neck. Then Agumon push off the fox digimon. As he jumped away, Agumon release another pepper breath. Renamon use her arms to roll from the attack. Renamon got to her feet and look at Agumon.

"Not bad." Moving forward as her attack formed, she sent a shower of gem stones flying towards Agumon. "Now let's see how you handle an all out battle."

Moving from side to side to avoid the attack, Agumon growled as he spotted Renamon diving down from above, her foot connecting with his chin harshly, the force of it sending him flying backward. "Pepper Breath!"

Taking a hit right to her chest, Renamon stepped back as she hissed, part of her fur getting burnt before she could swat out the fire. "You, Diamond Storm!" A shower of gem stones moving towards Agumon serving as an outlet for her new anger. "I shall delete you!"

"Calm down," Agumon yelled as he ran away. With two shards in his back Agumon turn to Renamon. "You attack me and you're the one who's mad. What is wrong with you?" He ran at the fox digimon.

"You may be built a little stronger than me," Renamon said as she hop away, "You're no where as fast as me."

"I don't need to be," Agumon said, "When you use your attack, you hang in the air. You're open for an attack."

"I'll just need to use a different attack," Renamon said, "Rika." Her partner nodded and take out her d-arc.

"Hey that's not fair," Tai yelled.

"There are no rules," Renamon said as she grabbed Tai. "I can do this." Renamon said as she pull out Tai's digivice. Then she jumped over next to Rika.

"Hey, give that back!" Growling as Renamon simply tossed it away in response, Agumon began running forward as fire built up in his mouth. "Pepper Breath!"

Grinning at the sight of it, Rika grabbed one of her cards and ran it through her D-arc. "Card Slash, Agumon!"

Feeling the card's effect take hold as she avoid the fireball, Renamon laughed as she too felt fire well up inside her mouth. "Pepper Breath!"

Trying to slow down his frontal attack, Agumon barely had time to move before he was flung backwards by a copy of his own attack.

Then Renamon was flying by over him, her mouth split into a wide grin as she pulled back one arm. "Time to finish it, Power Paw!" letting lose with several ghost fire covered punches and kicks, the fox like digimon laughed as she sent Agumon flying down into a bed of rose. "It's over!"

Of to the side, Rika felt herself grow a little cold at the savage way her partner acted towards Agumon, no sign of a merciful and quick defeat from her this time around. "Renamon, stop dragging it out and get it over with."

Looking back over her shoulder, Renamon shrugged as she walked up towards the badly beat up Agumon. "It's over, Diamond Storm!"

"No!" Turning her head at the yell, Renamon barely had time to yell out as she felt Tai slam into her, the force sending them crashing down into the roses, the fox like digimon's attack firing off to hit a tree rather then Agumon. "I won't let you kill Agumon!"

Screaming as she pushed him off, Renamon gawked as she saw Agumon had recovered and where standing up again. "You, Diamond!"

"Pepper Breath!" Spitting out the ball of Fire and hitting Renamon right in the head with it, had the small dino like digimon grin as he began to move towards his. "Tai, we have to get out of here, without the digivice I can't evolve."

Tai nodded and the two ran away. "Rika find his digivice," Renamon said, "They're try to get it. I'm going to hunt spike hair down."

"Great," Rika said, "She's ordering me around like she's in charge."

Facing Rika, Agumon growled as he began to walk forward, his eyes focused on her entirely. "Why, why are you two doing this?"

Turning to stare at him, Rika simply snorted as she began to move in the direction Renamon had tossed the digivice. "I'm doing it to be the best, besides; it not like it will help you."

Moving forward a bit faster, Agumon allowed a fireball to form in his mouth. "Pepper Breath!" The fire ball going past Rika at a safe distance, but still causing her to fall over from the shock at getting attack by another tamers digimon again. "Tai's my best friend, and I believe in him, just as he believes in me. And I won't lose to the likes of you and your partner."

Rushing past Rika as she tried to sit up, Agumon tore into the bushes, sniffing the air as he began ti pick up the smell of the digivice. "Tai, hold out, I'll find the digivice, just you wait and see."

At the same time, Renamon had made a perfect leap to land right in front of Tai, her hands held out in an offensive stance. "Give it up, you and your partner may have been able to beat other digimons, but against me you won't win."

Stomping forward, she lifted up her paw to grab Tai, when she saw him toss something at her, her reflexes allowing her to suck it. "What the? Are you crazy? You're a human; you don't stand a chance against me."

Looking up, she spotted Tai as he grinned at her as he began running away from her. "We can beat you, we took down Etemon, and we'll take you down as well."

Grabbing the digivice, Agumon smiled widely as he turned around, watching as Rika glared at him, her trench coat having fallen off doing her fall. "Looks like things just got better for Tai and me." Running off, he grinned as he heard Rika let out a small curse. "Tai, I got it, I got the digivice"

Left behind in the bushes, Rika looked down at her D-arc as she slowly pulled out her

blue card, staring at it with a frown. "Renamon." Then she shook her head as she looked up sharply. "Renamon Evolve!" Slashing the blue card as she began to run forward as well, she still felt a growing doubt about it all.

Stopping in mid chase, the fox like digimon smirked as she felt the power flowing into her. "Renamon Evolves too." Her body shuddering as she felt her data shift around and reshape, her tail splitting into nine as she body became more fox like, her legs and arm reforming as she became a four legged digimon instead of a two legged one, ghostly fire forming on her tail tips and heels, the final touch coming from a ribbon like pole forming around her neck. "Kyubimon!"

"Great," Tai said. He watch the large fox slowly move toward him.

Tai step back a little before turning to run, she smiled as Tai ran away. "I like prey that runs."

"Come there must be something to help," Tai moan as he reach into his pocket. "Great just some playing cards." The load step pounded closer. "I hope Agumon found my digivice." He pulled the a card cover in blue from his pocket. Tai charge through some bush only to see Agumon too later. The partners roll one the grass the blue card hitting his digivice.

As the card hit the digivice, a high pitched sound began to emit, the sound making both Tai and Agumon winched as several different colored lights shot out from the digivice. "Unknown Data, unknown data, Data accepted, executing program, Evolution!" The information running across the digivices screen while the loud noise toned down to more bearable level just as Kyubimon tore through the bushes.

The nine tailed fox digimon smirked as she rushed towards them. "Found you, Dragon..." Then she stopped talking as an even higher pitched sound rang out, making her winched as several bright light beams shot out from the digivice, two of them missing her while one impacted a tree and a bush, with the last one hitting Agumon in the head, her eyes turning to see what had nearly hit her. "The blue card!"

On the ground, Agumon let out a loud cry as his body began to float upwards, his eyes glowing as his power grew. "Agumon evolves too-" His body growing to much larger size, thought only half as big as his Greymon form, gaining a more dragon like outlook as two horns pointing backwards grew from his head with a smaller one on top of his mouth, four fingered hands with curved claws and a white and blue colored scheme forming a v on his chest completed the evolution. "-V-dramon Zero!"

Tai's eyes widen as he le looks at his partner's new champion form. He looked down at his digivice resting next to another device like Rika and Takato's. Then he yelled, "Show that fox Grey...V-dramon Zero."

"V-Breath Arrow," V-Dramon Zero yelled. Kyubimon jump from the flaming blue and heat 'v' shape arrow.

"Well done spike hair. This won't be as easy I thought it would be," Kyubimon said.

"Pay back for stealing my digivice."

"Renamon." Came the cry from Rika as she pushed her way through the bushes, her face darkening as she spotted the new device in Tai's hands. "A D-arc." Then she watched V-Dramon Zero and let out a soft curse as she regarded Renamon. "We can still take them; they're not used to fight with a D-arc."

Pulling out a card, she grinned as she held it out before her. "Round 2, goggle head, Card Slash!" her mouth gaining a dark grin as she scanned the card. "Nova Flame!"

Glowing with power,

V-Dramon Zero turned in time to see Renamon spit out a massive fire ball, a perfect copy of one of his other champion forms attacks. "Copy Cat, V Breath Arrow!" Countering it with his own long distance attack.

As each attack met, the V arrow cut right through the Nova Flame and crashed right into the stomach of Kyuubimon who was flung backwards, while the Nova Flame impacted V-Dramon Zero head on, pushing him backwards while giving him several burns.

V-Dramon Zero step forward and roar. Kyuubimon spread her tails. The two digimon charge each other. As the gap between then rapidly vanish, a fog spawn between them.

Rika watch the fog surround her digimons and come to her. She slipped on her sun glasses. "This is easy," she said, "Normally we run around to find them."

"We'll finish this later," Kyuubimon said. She looked around the foggy land.

"Been a while since we last met, eh brat?" Questioned the voice of Metal-Etemon as a massive form arose from the fog, a faint glow coming from it as it seemed to awake. "A bit sorry I can't be here in person, but I trust you'll like my stand in."

Roaring as he ripped part of the fog out of his way, Skullgreymon began to walk forward, his skull like head moving to spot the foolish creatures and digimons he could sense. "What do you think boy, the battle of the Greymon's all over again."

Screaming out in rage and anger, Skullgreymon charged forward as he spotted both Kyubimon and V-dramon Zero, his hands easily battering the few tree in his way over, revealing an extra large tv screen planted in the center of the fog area, Metal-Etemon face all over the screen. "At least I can have a live feed of your defeat boy, now go my slave, and destroy him."

Lashing out, Skullgreymon watched as Kyubimon jumped back, landing on the ground while V-dramon Zero backed off as well, the two champion digimons watching the undead digimon as he screamed in anger as he kneeled down, the missile on his back starting to power up. "Dark Shot!"

V-dramon Zero pushed Kybuimon from the path of the missile. "Get off me," Kybuimon grunted as they hit the ground.

"We need to spread out," V-dramon Zero said as he clime to his feet, "so he can only attack one of us at a time." Kybuimon just nod and the dragon ran off.

"What are you waiting for?" Rika yelled, "Make him digivolve."

"I've tried," Tai said, "My digivice isn't working." They watch Skullgreymon swing at V-dramon Zero. He was unable to dodge the attack and the bone digimon slammed him into some trees.

"You have any ideas on how to stop him?" Tai ask, "He's not even reacting to our attacks."

Snapping his jaws down towards V-Dramon Zero, Skullgreymon roared out as he failed to capture the blue and white dragon, his red eyes refocusing as his fish missile impacted somewhere off into the distance, a massive fireball lighting up the air.

Looking towards it, Tai hissed as all sense of keeping the fight out of sight had just gotten blown up. "We have to stop him, those things can kill someone." Turning back to the battle, he watched as Kyubimon were chased by the skeleton digimon. "V-dramon Zero, aim for his head!"

Firing off another V shaped arrow, Zero cursed as it didn't even hurt the large bone digimon; rather, it seemed to make him even angrier. "Tai, it's not working."

Off to the side, Rika narrowed her eyes as she watched the fight. "I need a blue card, it's the only way to evolve Kyubimon again." Gazing down at her deck, she also cursed as she failed to find any blue card what so ever. "Hey, you have any blue cards?"

Tai, not answering, watched as another fish shaped missile were fired off into the forestry parts of the area, V-dramon Zero stumbling as he ducked. "That missile, if we could get it to explode while it's on his back."

Snapping her head up to see another one forming on the skeleton digimon's back at Tai comment, she nodded as she turned to face Kyubimon. "Hey, aim for the missile, if we can destroy it-"

"-It may destroy him as well." Tai finished as he watched V-Dramon zero jumped for his life as a tree were ripped up and thrown at him by Skullgreymon. "Okay!"

"I'm getting hammer," V-dramon Zero yelled, "It must not like my face."

"Looks like it's up to me," Kyubimon said. Just then the bone tail slammed into her face.

"Have any cards?" Tai ask.

"I'm looking," Rika said.

Laughing at the sight, Metal-Etemon watched as Skullgreymon tore up another tree and tired to flatten both Kyubimon and V-dramon Zero with it. "Looks like the good guys are having a little trouble, it's just too bad it didn't become the battle of the Greymon take two, but who am I to complain."

Snapping out one hand dramatically, he started laughing as he saw the desperation in Tai and Rika's

eyes, a sick grin forming on his face as he sat back down in his new throne. "Look at them, trying so hard to win, but to no use. It'll be over soon, nothing can save them now, nothing."

The skull Greymon glare at the two digimons pined under the tree, then is stopped. Kyubimon and V-dramon Zero could only watch as the bone digimon fell to the ground. They watched as it reverted to a Koromon.

"It looks like it drain it self out," Tai said just then the fog fade around them taking the Koromon with it. "Alright," he called to his approaching partner, "You can dedigivolve."

Grinning at first, V-dramon zero slowly gained a scared expression as several seconds passed. "Tai, I can't, 'm trying too, but I can't."

Stepping forward, Kyubimon and Rika watched the blue dragon type digimon before smirking. "Just like Takato, alright Skullgreymon's gone so no more alliance." Facing Tai, she glanced from him to V-Dramon Zero and then over to Kyubimon, then frowned as the distant sound of police sirens reached them. "Dammit, we should get out of here before they show up, Kyubimon return to Renamon."

Doing as she was told, the nine tailed fox quickly became a humanoid one tailed fox lady, standing tall behind Rika. "You had better leave as well, Guilmon should be safe in his hideout, but you had better move somewhere else until it's safe to return here."

Fading away after her warning, Renamon gave one last hard look at V-dramon Zero. "Next time, we finish this, understood?"

"Next time we'll have rules," V-dramon Zero said, "Unless you're too afraid to fight me with them."

"Let's just go," Tai said, "I got want to be here when the cops get here."

Tai and V-dramon Zero ran until the came into a clearing where Takato and Guilmon was. "What happen?" Takato ask.

"A lot," Tai said breathing heavily, "Do you know of a find place and we'll tell you."

"I do," Takato said. They follow Takato until he came to a large tube.

"Nice," Tai said, "I wonder if my world has a tunnel like this?"

"So what's with the new form?" Takato ask.

"I don't know that myself," Tai said rubbing the back of his head, "But since we're need to wait for the cops to leave I guess I'll start from the beginning. That fox digimon her partner came to fight us."

"That's sound like Rika and Renamon," Takato said.

"During the fight Renamon took my digivice and gave it to her partner," Tai said.

"How did you get it back?" Takato ask.

"She kind of threw it away, but we found it." Looking back at V-Dramon Zero, Tai sighed as he turned back to face Takato. "I kind of found this blue card thing, and, well it landed on my digivice when i tried to get it back, V-Dramon Zero here was the result and this as well." Holding out the D-arc he had gotten as well, he stared down at the screen, puzzled. "Don't know how it works though."

"You got a d-arc just like us," Takato said as he pulled out his own. "That means that you can use cards."

"What suck is my Digivice no longer works," Tai said, "I can't bring out Metal Greymon."

"But any way I brought you some food," Takato said, "Also I talk to my partners. I told them that one of my friends parents are going out of city for a while and they agree to let you stay with us. I'm sure you want to stay in a real room. So what do you say?"

Turning his head, Takato stared up at V-dramon Zero. "You should stay with Guilmon, wouldn't want to show Hypnos where we live."

"I'm fine with it." Tai spoke out as he turned to stare up at his partner. "What about you, if you don't want to, I'll stay here as well."

Giving a small shrug, V-dramon Zero simply sighed as he looked down at his partner. "No problem, but, what if Etemon decides to attack you?"

"There is not much that we can do if he attack right now," Tai said, "Beside Takato been doing it for a while so it should be fine. When Takato goes to school, I'll spend time with you."

"I guess I don't mind," V-dramon Zero said.

"Great," Tai said, "I think I should come over tomorrow. We don't want it to look rushed."

"How about I show you around," Takato said, "I'm sure it'll come in handy. I'll introduce you to my parents."

"Great." Looking back over his shoulder, Tai waved at V-dramon Zero. "I'll be back as soon as I can tomorrow."

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Glaring down at the whimpering Koromon, Metal-Etemon snarled as he hammered one fist down onto a small control station, denting it completely out of shape. "You failed, even as the powerful Skullgreymon, you failed." Glaring death at the small, pink in-training digimon, he slowly smiled as he snapping one fist up in triumph. "But you'll get another chance, with project Copy Tai!"

Laughing loudly as he spun around to stare up at a Screen, Metal-Etemon watched as a digital image of Tai formed on the screen. "Of course, we still need some data on him, but when we have that, you'll be the one to be partnered with my greatest soldier, Dark Tai."

"I just need to out number them so I can get that data," Metal-Etemon said.