Children of the Legend

Kari Minamoto

Author's Note: I can't believe how many reviews I have! It gives me the motivation to continue this fic. Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter. I hope everyone who read it enjoyed it. I would also like to know if anyone knows why pages of fics are disappearing. Also I've been busy with finals since April break, and will be until I'm out of school. Sorry for the delay, here is the next installment of Children of the Legend. (Below note not to bash Yankee fans, I'm a Boston fan, always have been and always will be. Note is at the end.)

Disclaimer: I do not own digimon at all.

Chapter 8- Shadows of the Future

"Koichi!" said his mother Tomoko, "Hurry up and get ready for school or you'll be late. I'm leaving for work now."

Koichi grumbled the answer yes and went to get ready for school.

His room was small but still cozy. It was messy, the opposite of Koji's, but neither twin really cared. It also had a cot in the room for when Koji stayed over night.

Koichi put on jeans and a black shirt and left the house for school. Before leaving he grabbed a pop-tart and his black jacket.

As he was walking to school he realized how tired he really was. Koichi knew that he had not been getting enough sleep for the past few nights, but he did not know what to do about it.

He knew it was not exactly normal to keep having this repetitive dream. Every night he had it and it was constantly waking him up.

Koichi always remembered the dream as soon as he woke up, but as time passed during the night, the details seemed to fall between his fingers like water.

All he could remember was a shadowed figure, as far a Koichi could tell, he looked like a vampire. He also remembered an evil laugh that would send as chill down anyone's spine.

As he was thinking about this, he suddenly realized that he was in front of his school. Koichi had been so deep in his thoughts that his feet went to school without consciously knowing that he was going there.

'I guess it's time for school,' Koichi said to himself and headed up the steps to class.

Classes had finally ended for the day for Koji Minamoto. As soon as the bell rang for the end of classes he left school as fast as possible, but not fast enough to escape Takuya.

"Hey buddy, what are you doing after school?" Takuya asked him in a carefree voice, "Cause if you want I could try to get the gang together for a game of soccer."

Koji rushed his reply, "I have something more important to do, and I don't want to play soccer."

He then started to leave the school grounds again.

Takuya was not about to let Koji get away that quickly. As soon as Koji started to leave, Takuya caught up with him again. Before Takuya could say anything, Koji began to speak.

"I don't have time for this at the moment Takuya, just leave me alone," Koji replied coldly.

This was not something that Takuya was used to. Sure when they met Koji he was the lone wolf, but he had changed since their digital adventure and Takuya was determined to find out why Koji was acting the way he was.

"Koji what's bothering you? Whatever it is you know your friends are here to help you," Takuya said.

"I know, but this is between my brother and me, okay?" Koji said.

"Fine. I won't bother you about whatever it is you are hiding," Takuya replied with a large grin.

"Thanks," Koji said returning with a small smile and hurrying off to wherever he was going.

Koichi had been hanging around school for a while now. He was supposed to be meeting up with his brother soon, but Koji hadn't turned up yet. As Koichi was thinking about going to a pay phone or asking a boy to borrow his cell phone to call Koji, he came running into the schoolyard.

As Koji came to a stop in front of Koichi several people took a double take of the twins. Having a twin was not something that Koichi told everyone, not because he was embarrassed, but because he felt it wasn't everyone's business to know his family business. After all, they had a pretty strange story even without getting the digital world involved in it.

"Hey Koichi, I'm glad I found you. We need to go, now," said Koji urgently.

"What's wrong Koji, you sound a little worried," Koichi replied with brotherly concern.

"Let's just go somewhere else before I explain, okay?" Koji answered looking around the crowded school grounds.

"Alright, let's go," Koichi said mainly because he was curious about what Koji wanted to tell him.

The twins hurried out of the school yard and down the street, turned a few corners and came to a stop in front of Koichi's apartment.

Koichi opened the door and the brothers went inside. They removed their sneakers at the door and headed to the small yellow kitchen and sat at the even smaller table.

"Okay, what did you need to bring me here for, some secret you found out about Takuya and Zoe?" asked Koichi with a hint of sarcasm.

"No, this" Koji replied taking out his cell phone.

It was glowing like when he first received his spirits of light. Koji then pressed a button on the side of the phone and it transformed into his D-Tector. This was an added feature which Ophanimon installed when she figured that the team would have to hide the spirits from their families.

The D-Tector started to glow shades of black and white.

Koichi the asked the obvious question, "What do you think is going on?"

"I'm not really sure," Koji replied with uncertainty. "Maybe it's trying find your spirits as well?"

Koichi then touched the D-Tector.

As soon as Koichi touched it, the D-Tector began to glow a blackish purple. In the blinding light which was unleashed, a sound was heard from the D-Tector. It began to hum and as soon as the light died away, Koichi's D-Tector sat on the kitchen table, the same as it looked last time.

"Wow," said Koichi with awe.

"There must have been some sort of link between the spirits and the D-Tectors, just like there is one with us," Koji said compassionately with a smile.

"Let's go find it Koji, come on!" said Koichi getting his enthusiasm quickly.

"Alright let's go," Koji agreed.

"Where do you think the spirit is?" Koichi asked.

The twins were in the Science Museum. It was enormous and there was almost no way to find the spirit in one day even with the map to help them, then again they could only use it when no one was looking since it was on the D-Tector and not an everyday item.

"Let's check on the upper floor in the space exhibit," Koji suggested.

"Fine let's go," Koichi said.

All that was on his mind was finding his spirits. Koichi was as connected to his spirits of darkness as the rest of the team, even though he has them for a lot less time.

The twins ran up a flight of stairs to the red level. The red level consisted of the Planetarium, earth science, and physics exhibits.

Once they got to the Planetarium, they started browsing through the exhibit. They passed by different scales that tell your weight on the planets, a model of the solar system, and the exhibit s on the inner planets and asteroid belt.

Koji and Koichi started to head closer to the end of the exhibit where the outer planets were.

Once they got to the back, they saw that the last exhibit, Pluto, was closed for repairs. There were not that many people around here; after all, the exhibit was closed.

The twins felt it was now safe to take out Koichi's D-Tector to see how close they were to the spirits.

"It looks like we are right near it Koichi," said Koji studying the map quickly.

"Yeah, but it looks like it's in the closed exhibit," Koichi replied with a hint of worry, "but I know we will find it."

It was a good thing that the brothers were close together so the prying eyes of a nearby man could not see the D-Tector they were studying. He would have been suspicious to the twins if they had seen him.

The twins ducked under the tape blocking the entrance to the exhibit when no one was watching. Once inside the exhibit Koji and Koichi could barely see where they were going, but what could be seen was a glowing ball. It was a giant model of Pluto which was being completed for the exhibit.

With the light it was giving off the twins could see what was nearby. The light let them see the area where visitors can find out why Pluto was given its name and a map of where it is located in the Milky Way.

As the twins approached the Pluto model in the center of the room, Koichi's D-Tector began to glow.

When Koichi approached the globe he knew his spirits were inside. He had no proof, just what he seemed to know on instinct.

"Spirits of Darkness come to me," Koichi said passionately.

At his words the spirits came out of the model of Pluto and went into his D-Tector in a blinding purple light.

Right before the light died away, Koichi could have sworn he heard Lowemon's voice tell him that a danger was coming soon and to be prepared just like Ophanimon had told them earlier, then again maybe it was only his imagination.

When the light had died away two more necklaces were on the ground; one was a pinkish color with a swirl design in the center while the other was a bold purple which looked like an eight on its side with circles in the center.

Koichi was so used to the necklaces appearing that he picked them up and put them in his pocket.

Two minutes later a security guard came and started to yell at them about the ignorance of teens and children. He must have heard the commotion they were causing when they found the spirit and came to investigate what was going on. The security guard then asked them if they could read the sign in choice words but did not let them explain. He then told Koji and Koichi that twins were always trouble and if anything was broken they would be paying for its repair.

After calming down the security guard escorted the twins out of the museum and told them not to get into anymore trouble. He added that it was best for them to avoid the museum for a while.

The twins started to walk down the street toward their homes when Koichi spoke up.

"I've never been yelled at like that before, have you?" Koichi said trying to start up a conversation.

"Do you believe what he said about twins being troublemakers?" Koji asked with a small smile oblivious to Koichi's question.

"Not really," Koichi replied, "I wonder what would happen if he met Takuya."

"That would be a laugh. He probably would consider twins as angels after Takuya," Koji answered with a laugh thinking of Takuya who got in trouble almost daily.

"I'm glad that we are twins though, it's so much better than being an only child like I used to be. Actually, it's a lot more interesting and more fun," said Koichi to Koji.

"Me too," Koji replied looking at his brother and trying to picture life as it used to be and now how it was.

The twins knew that each other was thinking of how much their lives had changed since they met and how much they have learned from each other since then.

They both knew that no matter what would happen they would be by each others side to fight together.

To be continued…

Please forgive me for not updating. I will try harder to update more often and in between finals/final projects. Not really a season 2 chapter, so sorry for those who prefer it to season 4. I felt this was the way to go with it. I know it's short but I felt that it was a good place to stop. I am also trying to decide what to put in the next chapter. Some responses to reviews are below.

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Dark Qiviut: I'd like to let you know last time I checked the A.L. East Standings that the Yankees are in 4th place while the Sox are a game out of 1st. Also, you have to give Sheffield some credit for not decking the Sox fan and miraculously the 1st brawl of the season was not against the Yankees, but against Tampa.

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