A/N: Last chapter you got to look at how the Digidestined adjusted to life in school and met Lia! Yay! Yes, I changed the looks of Lia (and her name) because to be quite honest I was going to mess with her looks anyways if I hadn't sooner or later and I got annoyed with the whole Kayla-Layla rhyming names gimmick so I changed it up. Now you get to see the High School Face-Off!

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, only my OC's and original Spirit Digimon.

Let Your Spirit Evolve

Chapter 2: Face-Off!

The Harajuku athletes began piling off their buses, dressed in their purple and black sweats, and towards the bleachers. The Shibuya students and athletes were corralled to sit on the bleachers next to the Harajuku athletes seeing as the student bodies from both schools not competing were on the bleachers on the opposite side of the football field—automatically a horrible idea.

"Can't believe their making us sit next to them," Lia pouted nodding her head over to the Harajuku kids.

The group had been the last to be seated and got the worst seats; sitting right next to the Harajuku athletes. Kouji rolled his eyes. "You, Tommy, and Takuya were the ones who wanted to go and get cotton candy before we had to take our seats."

Tommy grinned, still holding his sweet candy prize in his hands. "It was worth it! This is delicious!" Takuya just nodded seeing as she stuffed a good majority of the cotton candy in his mouth and had to wait for it all to dissolve to say anything.

Zoe looked down at the seats in front of them to see that a few of the athletes from both schools were starting to walk down. "Hey, something's happening. Who's going to start competing?"

Everyone turned to look down before Kouichi snickered. "Looks like Lias' boyfriend is competing." Lia groaned dramatically while the others snickered.

JP smiled. "Guess cross country is going to start now."

"Great…bored already," Lia spoke snickering slightly.

Takuya nodded. "I've gotta agree with Lia. When's our turn?" Kouji rolled his eyes.

"We go last Takuya. You're going to have to wait a lot."

"Aw man!"

"Alright, let's settle down Shibuya and Harajuku!" Principal Rowan shouted eliciting cheers whistles from both schools. Principal Rowan laughed before speaking again. "The cross country contest is about to begin! Racers on your mark! Get set…GO!" Principal Rowan shouted. The runners took off and started heading towards the woods just behind the school where they would have to run five laps around the perimeter of the school. Takuya and the gang continued to talk throughout almost the entire cross country event. They silenced once they saw the first few runners coming from behind the school during the fifth and final lap. It was a group of four people: three Harajuku runners and Mike. The Harajuku runners were leading Mike by four seconds and pulled into the finish line before the Shibuya student.

Harajuku had won the first event.

Mike clearly looked upset and waited on the side to greet his teammates as they came to the finish line. All of them disappointed while Harajuku celebrated out on the field.

Principal Rowan got on the mike again. "Will we please have all the tennis players come down to prepare for your matches?"

JP got up looking nervous. "Wish me luck you guys!"

"Good luck JP!" The others called out as the Warrior of Thunder ran off down towards the field.

"Aw man, when's it going to be our turn?" Lia grumbled impatiently as the group watched the tennis games. JP wasn't up yet, so they were all talking to pass the time.

"Patience Lia, we'll be up soon. We're after soccer," Zoe reminded the girl. Lia groaned and started pouting.

Kouji snorted. "Quit pouting. You've got to focus on winning."

Lia was about to retort when Kouichi, seeing how Lia was glaring at Kouji, decided to intervene. "And we all have the utmost confidence you will."

"Thank you Kouichi. At least now I know who the smart, nice twin is."

Kouji looked about to retort when Tommy hit his shoulder trying to grab his attention. "Look! JP's up!"

Immediately the group looked down at the field and saw JP walking onto the Tennis court.

"Come on JP!"

"You can do this buddy!"

"You got this!"

"We're all rooting for ya!"

"Just stay cool!"

"Take that Harajuku kid DOWN!"

The last outburst caused a large portion of the Harajuku section to turn and glare at Lia, who was the one who had shouted it out. Lia in turned looked at the group and glared back. "What? You punks wanna start something?"

Kouji face palmed and grabbed Lia's shoulders, seeing as he was the closest to the girl, and tried to get her to sit down. "Let's not start a riot up here."

Lia shrugged and sat down as the group all watched JP's match. The Warrior of Thunder had started strong through his tennis game but the Harajuku player pulled ahead towards the end. When it came down to it, JP lost because he hit the ball a bit too hard and it went out of bounds.

The second event went to Harajuku.

After JP got changed back into his sweats he came back up into the stands and sat down dejectedly. "Sorry guys, I lost it for us. Harajuku got another win."

Zoe patted JP's shoulder sympathetically. "It's okay JP, you did your best. It wasn't your fault."

"Yeah, but now you guys all have to win for us to win the face-off."

One of the Harajuku athletes sitting next to them, a platinum blonde haired girl with black roots and muddy brown eyes, snorted. "So much for Harajuku athletes being punks, huh?" This caused the entire Harajuku side to start laughing and hooting while it caused a great portion of the Shibuya side to glare. It also caused Lia to glare at the girl who said the comment.

"I'm sorry I didn't quite catch that. Did you just say Harajuku is full of punks? Cause I'd have to agree," Lia spoke in annoyance. The Shibuya side closest to the Harajuku kids, most of which consisted of the soccer and football team, all grinned at Lia's comment. Zoe tugged on Takuya's arm.

"This is gonna get real bad real fast," Zoe whispered to the Warrior of Fire. Takuya looked confused.

"Why do you say that?"

The girl who made the initial comment rolled her eyes. "You Shibuya students are such morons. You really think you can step to Harajuku? You all must be crazy to take us on."

Another Harajuku student laughed. "You tell that Shibuya chick, Missy!"

The girl, now identified as Missy, grinned triumphantly at Lia. "Now, I suggest you quit trying to egg us on, cause I will get ugly. Although, it's too late for you in the looks department."

Lia's eye twitched. "Excuse me?"

Takuya, now seeing how this was going to get bad, winced and looked at the other boys. Tommy was biting his lip, JP had his eyes wide, Kouichi was looking around at the group as well, and Kouji had winced too, though all of the boys looked tensed and ready to react at a moment's notice. Zoe put a hand on Lia's shoulder in an attempt to calm the girl down.

Missy laughed. "What? Hard on the eyes and hard on hearing? How pathetic…"

All at once Lia was out of her seat and glaring down at Missy. The second Lia was standing up, a trio of Harajuku boys stood up in front of Missy like a barrier glaring at Lia. Kouji stood up behind Lia after the three boys got up from their seats. Lia glared around the boys and at Missy. "You want to talk big, than step up instead of hiding behind your lap dogs here."

"Who you calling lap dogs?" The tallest and most muscular boy asked. He had shaggy brown hair and green eyes and was glaring down at the small redhead girl.

Kouji got up and in between the three boys and Lia, trying to push the little redhead back. Lia didn't even flinch. She merely looked up at the boy and glared. "I'm calling you lap dogs. It's only natural for a male dog to protect its bitch."

That was the comment that sent everything into chaos.

As soon as Lia's comment left her lips Missy had jumped up—pushing by the three boys and Kouji—and tackled Lia onto the ground of the bleachers. Lia quickly flipped the odds in her favor as she rolled over and started aiming punches at Missy's face.

One of the three boys who had originally tried to defend Missy grabbed Lia by the hair and tossed her off of the blonde and to the ground. This brought in Kouji, who punched the boy in the face and kneed him in the stomach. Soon enough all of the boys closest to the Harajuku and Shibuya sides started fighting it out up in the stands. Takuya had jumped out of his seat and roundhouse kicked a tennis player in the head. Tommy had jumped on someone's back while JP punched the boy in the face. Kouichi and Kouji had gone back to back and were fighting off a group of football and soccer players. Zoe launched herself at another girl who was trying to get a cheap shot at Lia, who was dealing with Missy—and by dealing that meant Lia was savagely punching Missy in the face and gut whenever the opportunity arose—to help protect her friend. One of the Shibuya soccer players saw that a guy was heading towards Lia and Zoe, and tackled said guy out of the way, but wound up falling down the stairs with the boy.

"Break it up! Break it up!" Principal Rowan and Principal Jordan shouted as the coaches all ran up into the stands and broke up fight. Missy took a cheap shot at Lia—who had already been separated by Principal Rowan—catching the redhead in the face. Getting worked up again, Lia was about to lunge at the girl again but Kouji wrapped his arms around the girls waist and pulled her back, holding her tightly even though she was trying to fight against him.

"What's going on here?" Principal Rowan asked, standing beside his students and glaring at the girl who had just punched the redhead.

"She attacked Lia!" Zoe accused pointing at Missy.

Missy glared. "She was being a bitch! She deserved it!"

Principal Jordan looked at Missy with an annoyed look. "We'll talk about this when we get back to school. Now all of you stop fighting and sit down! All soccer players head down to the field, now. Twenty minutes until soccer starts."

All of the soccer players headed down, Kouichi and Tommy with them, as the two groups snorted and went back to their seats. "You okay Zoe?" Takuya asked looking over at the blonde to make sure she was alright. Zoe smiled at the boy before she winked.

"You should know I've had worse. It'll take more than a catfight to take me down."

JP laughed. "She's got a point. Nice tackle by the way."

"Thank you."

Kouji let go of Lia and sat down, pulling the girl down with him, and cupping her chin in his hand to look at her face. "Let me see."

Lia pouted and tried to pull away from him. "I'm fine."

"Don't be stubborn and let me see."

Lia sighed and kept her head still. Kouji tilted her head up and saw a little cut that she had managed to get on her lip and a red mark on her cheek. He ran his thumb over the little trickle of blood coming from her lip to wipe it away. "You're going to get a bruise on your cheek but you've only got a split lip."

Lia pulled her face away and smiled. "Thank you doc, but I'll be fine."

Kouji shook his head and caught the looks that Takuya and JP were sending his way. "Oh shut it," He hissed at both boys.

"Guys!"

The group looked up and saw Tommy running up to them, decked out in his soccer uniform, but looking worried. "What's up Tommy?" Zoe asked.

"You gotta get down here," He said and ran off. Immediately JP, Zoe, Takuya, Kouji, and Lia ran off after the boy.

They got down just behind the bleachers where the soccer boys were all warming up and dressed when they noticed five boys, including the coach, surrounding a brown haired boy who was on the ground. Kouichi was one of the five. He looked up as he heard Tommy arrive with the rest of the gang. "Holden's hurt," Kouichi announced to the group.

"What? How?" Takuya asked bending down to look at Holden, who had his ankle wrapped.

Holden looked up sheepishly. "I saw one of the Harajuku football players heading towards Zoe and Lia. So I jumped in and we fell down the stairs. The dude was a linebacker and he landed on my ankle when we fell. I can't move it."

"Oh my God, Holden, why'd you do that for us?" Zoe asked bending down to put a hand on Holden's shoulder.

Holden shrugged. "I have a younger sister, and I know I'd hope that someone would jump in for her if she were in a jam. I just acted."

"What do we do?" JP asked.

Coach Nolan, the soccer coach, sighed and looked to the group. "We need a replacement for Holden. We're already using our subs to fill in for Scott who broke his wrist last week and Jake who has that concussion. And none of our JV players can compete because their on the Junior Varsity team and this competition is only for Varsity athletes. If we don't find a replacement we forfeit."

Tommy looked up at the gang sheepishly. "We were hoping one of you guys could fill in seeing as you all compete in Varsity."

Kouichi looked at Kouji. "Kouji, think you can do it?"

"As much as I'd want to, I can't. I suck at soccer. You know that."

Takuya held his hands up. "I can't either. I'm not supposed to get injured before football or else Coach McKnight will have my head."

Kouji nodded. "That's true and also another reason why I can't."

JP shook his head. "I'd be no use. I'm not fast on the field and I have two left feet when it comes to soccer."

Zoe looked up at the group and sighed. "So we're going to have to forfeit."

Takuya shook his head. "No… we'll think of something."

Coach Nolan looked at his watch. "Well, it'll have to be fast because we only have fifteen minutes."

"I'll do it."

Everyone whipped their heads around to stare at Lia. "What?" Kouichi asked.

Lia sucked in a deep breath. "I'll do it. I'll fill in for Holden."

Kouichi shook his head. "No, we can find someone else—"

"Holden got hurt because I had to run my mouth. I caused it, so I'll fix it. I'll be the replacement."

Holden smiled gratefully. "I know you mean well but we need to find someone with more experience-"

"Do you really think you'll find someone with more experience than the Captain of the Sendagaya Twisters for the past two years in a row?" Lia challenged with an eyebrow raised.

The jaws of everyone within earshot dropped. Coach Nolan snapped his fingers. "I knew you looked familiar! You're Lia Higurashi! You led your soccer team to the championships two years straight!"

"That's me."

"What about Field Hockey? You're up right after soccer. You'll be exhausted," Kouji pointed out.

Lia smirked. "Don't you worry about me Minamoto, I can hold my own. Now, let's get this game started."