Ten-Faced Paladin
Legendary Celestial Warriors
By Ten-Faced Paladin
Chapter 3: Lobomon Illuminates
The situation felt a little tense at the moment at the Hikawa shrine. Not even an hour ago, Raye and the other Sailor Scouts learned of another world filled with creatures called Digimon. Not only that, they also learned that one Digimon was trying to conquer it and the human world as well. The sword swinging Digimon that attacked was proof of that. Luckily, they also learned of ten warriors that were able to stop him. One of those warriors was currently in front of them in the middle of a reunion with Raye's two guests.
Agunimon found himself under the gazes of the Sailor scouts that he had heard so much about. Each of them seemed to be drawing their own conclusions. Most of the inners, including Mini-moon and Saturn were looking at him curiously. Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus were looking at him with a critical eye, as if they were trying to find a fault. Jupter and Venus were looking just a little too friendly as they gazed at him with glazed looks in their eyes.
Tuxedo Mask finally stepped forward in an attempt to break the silence, "So, you're one of the Ten Legendary Warriors that Bokomon told us about?"
Agunimon shook himself out of his silence as he but Bokomon and Neemon back on the ground, "Yep," he smiled. "I'm the legendary warrior of flame. Name's Agunimon."
Agunimon's friendly nature seemed to calm the scouts slightly. More so than others, and they made their way over to the Digimon. Jupiter and Venus sure weren't complaining about having a closer look. If the armor he wore was any indication, the guy was a beefcake.
"Hello Agunimon," Sailor Moon greeteed with a smile. "I am called Sailor Moon and these are-"
"Sailors Mercury, Venus, Mini-moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, and this guy here is Tuxedo Mask." Agunimon interrupted with a grin. "Right?"
To say the scouts were surprised was somewhat of an understatement. Mercury managed to find her voice first. Digimon were proving to be a surprising experience for all of them.
"How did you know about us?" she asked.
"When data from this world makes up mine, you can't help but hear those things," Agunimon shrugged. To tell the truth, who doesn't know about you?"
The scouts seemed satisfied with that answer as they thought about it. The tension in the air. Agunimon found that the scouts seemed to be genuinely good people. It made them somewhat more comfortable to be around. Koji would probably be amazed to see him doing this plan of making them think he was born a Digimon.
"Ta, I mean Agunimon," Bokomon spoke while tugging Agunimon's hand. "I think it would be best if Neemon and I stay with the Sailor Scouts."
"Huh?" Agunimon gasped in surprise. "Why?"
"It's because we'd have an easier time hiding here than anywhere else," Bokomon explained. "The priestess at this temple already knows about us and has taken us in. Besides, since you know we're here, the others can visit."
"Oh, okay," Agunimon nodded. "Sounds reasonable. I'll let the others know."
Bokomon nodded as Agunimon starteed making his way to the edge of the property after giving a brief goodbye. When he reached the edge, he prepared to leap when Sailor Venus called after him.
"Wait!" she cried, catching the warrior's attention. "How are we going to be able to contact you?"
The scouts gave nods of agreement. I would be better for everyone if they would be able to contact the wrriors in case they needed help against another Digimon or possible a youma. Jupiter was just hoping that getting in contact with the warriors would let her get closer to Agunimon or maybe one of the other warriors if they were as hunky as he was.
Agunimon rubbed the back of his neck with a nervous grin, "Uh, you can't. We'll find you so don't worry about it."
Before the scouts could make a more compelling argument, Agunimon leaped over the edge of the propert and was gone. Venus slumped in disappointment, but she had hope for the future.
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Zoe waited while leaning on a street sign for Takuya. She had heard the explosions but she didn't want to get any closer to the action without her spirit to defend herself with. She was about to dare a look when Agunimon leaped from the temple grounds and landed next to her with a grin. Most people would have been scared about the sudden appearance, but she was very familiar with the warrior's appearance. She was only surprised to actually see Agunimon in the human world. As he stood up, Agunimon was enveloped with the blue fractal code and afer a moment, it vanished to reveal Takuya.
"Whew," Takuya grinned. "Like riding a bike."
"Wha-?" Zoe gasped. "Takuya, how'd you get your spirits?"
"Well," Takuya smiled while scratching the back of his neck. "Let's say it involves Bokomon, Neemon, and the Sailor Scouts."
"Sailor Scouts?" Zoe asked, then her eyes widened in realization. "Did you see the Sailor Scouts?!"
"Met them?" Takuya grinned. "Heck, I fought beside them!"
"Eeek!" Zoey cried. "That's so unfair! What were they like?"
"Huh?" Takuya remarked, getting a little nervous at Zoe's fangirl side.
"You know," Zoe pressed. "Were they friendly, mean, what?"
"Well," Takuya spoke, thinking about it. "Sailor Moon and a few of the other scouts seemed pretty nice."
"Yeah?" Zoe asked, eager for more information on her heroines.
"Jupiter and Venus were looking a me kind of funny," Takuya continued. "I'm not sure why. Pluto, Uranus, and Neptune didn't seem to trust me, even if I did come to help them."
Zoe blinked. To be honest, that wasn't quite the attitude she was expecting from the warriors of love and justice. It seemed more like a step in the oppsite direction.
"Anyway," Takuya sighed. "We'd beter head back home. The others wuld probably need to knw about this."
Zoe nodded. With that, the two of them made their way towards the train station. Like Takuya said, their friends really needed to know about what was happening.
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At the shrine, the scouts had changed back and before stepping back inside to try and get more information out of Bokomon. Neemn seemed content to sleep in Hotaru's lap while everyone talked. Hotaru seemed just as happy to leave Neemon where he was while she listened. Michelle and Haruka were happy to see Hotaru smiling like she was. In their opinion, she didn't smile like that often enough.
"So that was the warrior of fire?" asked Serena.
"That's right," Bokomon smiled. "Agunimon, the warrior of fire."
"He was sooooo cool!" Rini smiled brightly in admiration.
"I think he's cute!" Mina squealed.
"He reminds me of my old boyfriend," Lita thought with smile.
Everyone sweatdropped at the two boy crazy scouts. Bokomon looked at them both strangely. He would have to look up on human behavior. None of the other humans he knew acted that way. Then again, these they weren't the average human.
"Uh, you do know that he technically isn't human, right?" Michelle commented with some amusement and a small smile.
"Actually," Bokomon commented. "He was using his human spirit so that's pretty close."
No one seemed to hear him as Lita and Mina began arguing that love knew no restraint. Not even restraint between two worlds. Only Hotaru and Rini looked at Bokomon as they heard his words.
"Human spirit?" they both asked each other at the same time.
Shibuya
"Are you serious?!" J.P. gaped at Takuya and Zoe "You met the Sailor Scouts?!"
Takuya and Zoe had returned from Juuban as fast as they could. When they got back, they rounded up the other digidestined. They were holding a meeting at the park t talk about what happened. J.P. and Tommy were sitting on the edge of the sand box. Koji and Koichi were near the swings with the elder brother sitting on them. Zoe and Takuya were sitting on a bench while Takuya explained what had happened.
"You're missing the point." Koji sighed. "A Digimon came to our world and it didn't appear to be friendly. We were lucky the Sailor Scouts were there to hold it off."
"At least we'll be able to get our spirits eventually," Tommy pointed out.
"Maybe," Koichi agreed. "With the Sailor Scouts helping out, I think we'll be okay."
Koji seemed to be in thought before he turned to Takuya again, "Takuya, How would you say that the scouts were doing? Do you think they could handle fighting Digimon?"
Takuya closed his eyes as he thought about it, "Well, the human-sized ones I think they could handle without us, but if a bigger one showed up then they'll be in trouble. Not too much different then when we started out really."
Koji nodded as everyone fell silent. They were each drawing their own conclusions to what was happening. It was all the same. They needed to know why Bokomon and Neemon had come to the human world in the first place.
"So Bokomon and Neemon are at that temple in Juuban?" Tommy asked curiously.
"Yeah," Takuya nodded. "I don't think we should go there in human form."
"Well why not?" asked J.P.
"Think about it," said Zoe. "If a kid shows up there and get's spotted talking to Bokomon and Neemon, and then a Legendary Warrior appears knowing the whole situation when they obviusly shouldn't then we'll be busted."
"Why can't they know we're human?" asked Koichi.
"Simple, because we can't trust them with that information if we don't know who they are," Koji explained. "It's best if they think we're Digimon. We should still be careful, especially you Koichi."
"Why?" Koichi asked curiously.
Koji was about to explain when Zoe figured it ut and gasped, "Oh I get it! I'll bet most enemies that the Sailor Scouts have faced use darkness as a weapon!"
"Right," Koji nodded. "Bokomon can probably convince them otherwise, but he'll need time. Especially if Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are as stubborn as I think they are."
Everyone was in agreement on that one. It wouldn't be good for them if Loewemon was seen as an enemy just because of his element from which he drew his power.
"Well," J.P. sighed as he stood up. "If that's everything, I have to get home. My hmewrk waits for no one after all."
"Too true," Koichi smiled. "Oh, Koji, Don't forget that Mom wants us to help her set up at the Juuban community centre."
"Right," Koji nodded. "The cooking classes. Maybe after we'll be able to see Bokomon and Neemon at the temple."
The meeting at an end, the friends went their seperate ways. Each of them now having some heavy thoughts about what may be threatening their home.
Days later...
It had been a touch-and-go situation for a while. Raye said that Bokomon and Neemon couldn't stay at the temple anymore because when they took food, Raye's grandfather accused rats and was now going on a gung-ho hunt for them. Chad was also dragged into the hunt by the older man. If the two Digimon stayed then it would be a matter of time before they were found.
After some deliberation, Lita was elected to take them in. She lived by herself and had a fair bit of space as well. Where else would be better for them? In all, it was a nice arrangement. Lita had some company while she was home and she also had someone to test her new recepies.
This day, Lita was quickly getting ready to head out. Bokomon and Neemon were also pulling on some old hooded sweaters that Lita had that she mdified slightly to fit them. Now they only looked like kids in oversized clothes.
"Where are we going?" Neemon asked dumbly. It was dumbly because he had been answered three times earlier but he kept forgetting.
"For the last time we're going to a 'community centre'." Bokomon sighed as his head popped out f the top of the sweater.
"Why?" Neemon asked.
That was when Lita came out of her room ina green sweater with denim jeans. She was just putting her hair into her trademarked ponytail. She seemed to be excited judging from the smile on her face.
"A friend of mine is helping to set up a cooking show there," Lita explained. "They're holding cooking classes and one of the volunteer teachers couldn't come so she asked me."
"That's nice of you," Bokomon nodded. "But why do you want Neemon and I to come? I hardly think we'll be of any help."
"You don't have to," Lita assured as she walked towards her shoes. " I just figure that if a Legendary Warrior is hidden there then your book will give him his spirit."
What she didn't tell them was that she was silently hoping for it to be a kind f reverse sleeping beauty. The princess raises the proud warrior and he devotes his everlasting love to her. She almost burst into a fit of dreamy giggles just thinking about it.
"Oooh! Smart!" Neemon admired at Lita's idea.
"Indeed," Bokomon. "It's a good idea to plan ahead."
"You think?" Lita smiled as she pulled on her jacket. "Oh, I aksed Mina to come too so she can help us"
Both Digimon nodded. With all their preparations ready, they headed outside and towards their destination. Bokomon was just hoping that their disguises would be good enough. Neemon washoping to find some yummy foods when they got to wherever they were going.
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Koji finished pulling a box of vegitables into place for the stir-fry booth. Koichi was helping their mother straighten out the chairs for the audience. The twins had been helping their mom set up the booths for the past few days. Ms. Kimura had been looking forward to the event for a while.
"So who's this friend that's going to help teach?" Koji asked his brother.
"Her name's Lita," Koichi replied. "She's a friend of Mom's and she's really good at cooking. It's really surprising since she's about two or three years older than us."
"Looking for a girlfriend in her?" Koji teased with a grin.
"What?! No!" Koichi denied, blushing. "She's just a friend. She didsay I reminded her of her old boyfriend though. She's really hung up on him in my opinion."
"Oh, I don't know Koichi," Ms. Kimura smiled. "I think a spirited girl like her would be good for you. Maybe even break that shell of yours."
"Mom!!" Koichi blushed.
Koji couldn't help but laugh at the sight. That in itself was a rare occurance and only the other digidestined and his mom saw that on a usual basis. It was one of the things that was guaranteed to make Ms. Kimura smile no matter what kind of mood she was in.
"Ms. Kimura!" a female voice called.
They turned to the entrance to see a talle brunette and a blonde girl walking beside her walking towards them. Koichi thought he saw two small children beside them but they had darted off elsewhere. Koichi figured that their parents were already in the building.
"Oh hello Lita," Ms. Kimura smiled. "I'm glad you can come. Who's your friend?"
"My name's Mina Aino," the blonde intoduced. "Lita had asked if I could help and since I didn't have anything else to do I just couldn't say no."
"Why thank you," Ms. Kimura smiled as she turned to her sons. "These are my sons Koji and Koichi."
Lita stepped a little closer and smiled at the bandanna-wearing boy, "So this is the brother Koichi told me about. Reminds me of my old boyfriend just like he does."
Mina shook her head with a sweatdrop, "Every boy reminds you of your boyfriend. I think both of them are cute." Mina added a small giggle to the end. They didn't look too much younger than her. A year or two at least. Possible dating material.
Koji tried not to blush at the compliement, but Koichi made like a tomato. Ms. Kimura giggled in delight. It was nice to see her sons act their ages for a change. She didn't know how they got as mature as they did. It was like they fought in war or saved the world or something.
"You know," said Ms. Kimura, adding her two cents. "Both of them are single if either f you are interested."
"Mom!" both moys shouted, sending all three girls into fits of giggles.
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Inside the hallways of the community centre, there wasn't a living soul around. The janitors would come by later. The building itself was used for a number of different functions over the the year. This included during the winter months, so as to accomodate, they had a furnace installed in one of the utility rooms. Since the cold months hadn't come yet, the device in question wasn't being used.
"At least...it was supposed to be.
Flames were smoking from inside the heating device. The furnace wasn't even turned on but something was burning inside even though there wasn't anything to keep it going. The flames inside were still growing brighter. The light grew brighter until the side of the furnace burst open as a fireball shot out into the room. It bounced all around the room faster than a kid on candy until it finally came to a stop in the middle of the room. On closer inspection, the fireball could be seen to have shot stubby arms, large blue eyes and a large mouth that had stitches.
Activate Digimon Analyser
Demimeramon
Demimeramon aren't usually a threatening Digimon. More like annoying in most cases, even with it's Demi Flare attack. It is only dangerous if one gets it's hands on burnable material. Then you'd better watch out.
Demimeramon blinked as he looked around in curiosity. Nothing great to burn so he didn't see any real reason to stay. Hovering over to the door, he tried to open the door, but unfortunately his arms were just to short. Snorting in irritation, Demimeramon hovered back a short distance.
"Demi Flare!" he roared as he shot a fireball at the obstruction.
The door was blasted pen with a short boom. The inside was scorched and black and slightly caved in along with smoking. Satisfied with his handiwork, Demimeramon hovered into the hallway. He looked for something to burn and heard voices coming from the main auditorium. His logic told him that where there were people, there were things to burn. He had to get stronger, faster. He did have a master to serve after all.
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Koji and Koichi leaned against a wall as they watched Lita explain how to make a complicatedcake recipie that she had mastered. Her audience was captivated. Half of them were male, but the audience was still captivated.
"I told you she was good," Koichi smiled at his brother.
"Yeah," Koji nodded, watching her go. "Seems that way."
"It's her dream to open a bakery," someone spoke.
The twins turned to see Mina , who had decided to accompany watching Lita's class with them.
"I thought it was her dream to find that old byfriend of hers," Koji remarked. "She talks about him enough."
"Well," Mina sweatdropped. "That's another one, but the bakery comes first."
"So then she's not totally obsessed," Koji smiled. Koichi just shook his head at his brother's comments
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Lita was having a wonderful time herself, she discovered that she liked teaching classes like this, not to mention that the cake in question was one of her favorites. She also saw a perk in so many cute guys in attendace. Maybe she could get a date with one of them after if she was lucky.
"Okay everybody," she smiled to her audience. "Now that the batter's done, it's time to pop it into the pan and then into the oven."
Lita continued to explain the best pouring method for the cake batter. As she did so, an unknown observer was watching by the sidelines.Demimeramon watched the pretty human pour the brown stuff into a pan. He'd heard about it from some Pagumon from Flame Terminal. They said it was really sweet and really good. They called it chocolate. Maybe after he got enough burnable stuff he might be ablse to snag some of it while he was here.
The human finished pouring the chocolate and was heading for the oven with the now-filled pan. Demimeramon smiled in anticipation. All he had to do was wait for her to open it and the heat wuld be his. Then he would teach these guys how to cook.
Bokomon and Neemon were busy munching on some penut butter crackers that they had snagged from another booth. Who knew that being disguised as small children would sevure them food for free. They were making their way back to the booth that Lita was teaching. Neemon said that he had seen Kji and Koichi, but they hadn't been able to find them. As they were heading back, Neemn saw something else.
"Hey, look over there," Neemon pointed. "A Digimon."
"What?!" Bokomon cried as he choked down his cracker. He looked to where Neemon was pointing and saw the little flaming body of Demimeramon. The flame Digimon in question didn't even notice them. His attention was too focoused on the oven. Bokomon's eyes widened as he saw what Demimeramon was looking at and the truth was dawning on him.
"Oh no!" he cried. "He's after the oven! We have to stop him!"
Bokomon dashed towards the booth with Neemon close behind. Demimeramon still didn't notice them coming. His attention was just too focused. Lita just grabbed the handle to the oven as Demimeramon felt his body tensed up.
"No!" Bokomon in desperation. "Don't open the oven!"
The twins' eyes widened as they heard the familiar voice shout. They'd heard it enough in the digital world. They weren't the only ones who recognised it. Mina had tensed up beside the twins as she heard it. Lita heard Bokomon shout just as she pulled on the oven handle.
"Huh?" she spoke. "Who said that?"
It was too late. She opened the door to the oven just as Bokomon finished shouting that sentance. Seeing his chance, Demimeramon, seeing his chance, immediately lunged at Lita and the oven. Lita turned to see a fireball with a face lunging at her.
"Waah!" she shrieked as she leaped out of it's way, tossing her pan into the air.
Demimeramon didn't care as he only stopped for a moment to grab the falling pan. Not a bit of the chocolate dropped out if the pan. After he grabbed it, Demimeramon went straight into the oven before shutting himself inside.
"What was that?" Lita asked out loud.
"A Demimeramon!" Bokomon replied as he and Neemon got closer. "Fire-type Digimon who thrive in hot environments. That includes ovens!"
"Do they have a sweet tooth too?" Lita asked irritably. "He stole my cake batter!"
"Who care's about the batter!" Bokomon shrieked. "We have to get him out of there!"
The whole time this went on, the audience was dumbstruck. They just assumed that this was a floorshow for while the batter was baking. One heck of a realistic floorshow, but a really good one too.
Everyne's eyes were trained n the oven. They were wondering what had happened to the creature that was inside. That thought quickly left everyone's minds when the oven quickly burst into flames. Lita, Bokomon, and Neemon quickly backed away. Mina, Koji, and Koichi were racing for their friends. The audience was quickly vacating the premesis in minor pandemonium.
It was when the oven exploded that the minor pandemonium became major. Pieces of metal flew in all directions and small bits of flame littered the ground. Mina and the twins were at the back of the booth while Lita and the Digimon were near the front. At the very front, in the centre of the flames, a new Digimon had appeared.
It was a tall humanoid figure completely made of flames. It was about three heads taller than the average human. It had blue eyes and had stitches covering it's mouth which was in an evil smirk. It was also licking it's lips as it dropped an empty pan.
"Oh, no." Bokomon gasped as he clutched his book.
Activate Digimon Analyser
Meramon
Meramon is a towering inferno of a Digimon. His Roaring Flame and Fireball attacks can fry almost anything!
Meramon continued to smirk at his audience.
"How's that for a grand enterance?" he laughed. "The chocolate was pretty good too."
"Lita!" Kouji shouted as he began to get up.
"Well well," Meramon grinned as he recognised the former bearer of the spirits of light. "What do we have here? Don't think your'e going anywhere buddy. Roaring Flame!"
Meramon punched the air at Koji and a flaming missile scorched through the air towards the digidestined. It left a trail of fire across the floor. Koji leaped to the side of the attack as it streaked past him. Mina and Koichi were cut off from the others while Koji was trapped with them and Meramon. The attack kept going until
"Koji!" Mina cried.
"Koichi!" Koji called to his brother. "Get Mina out of here! I'll get Lita!"
Koichi nodded as he grabbed Mina's hand and began pulling her towards the exit despite her protests. Koji dashed forward to Lita. Bokomon and Neemon were hiding under a table. Meramon waited for Koji to get a bit closer before he decided to attack again.
"Time to burn!" he crowed. "Fireball!"
Meramon threw the spere of fiery death atKoji as he was helping Lita to her feet. Seeing the attack coming, Koji pushed Lita towards the exit while he dived to the ground. The resulting left a fiery barrier between Lita and Koji.
"Get going Lita!" Koji shouted as he watched her get up.
"But-" Lita tried to protest.
"GO!" Koji shouted sternly. "I'll be fine!"
Lita wanted to protest, but she wasn't going to get anywhere with it. She needed to find Mina and transform. Only Sailor Jupiter and Mina were going to be able to save Koji at this point.
Meramon chuckled again as he recieved the glare Koji sent him while standing up.
"Now it's just you and me," Meramon laughed. "Let's see how big you are without your spirits."
Meramon brought back his fist to unleash a roaring flame attack when a 'distraction' decided to pop up. It came in the form of a blinding light generating from underneath a table. It was actually Bokomon and Neemon holding the book with the entry for the warrior of light facing outwards. Meramon had to shield his eyes, but Koji could see clearly. The two spirits of light were slowly rising from the pages. The wolf-esq armored idol on the left while the white armored wolf idol was on the right.
Reacting quickly, Koji pulled his cellphone out from his pocket and held it out t the two spirits. In a bright flash, the cellphone changed into Koji's familiar blue and white D-tector. The spirits reacted quickly and were quickly drawn into the device.
A smirk came to Koji's face as he looked into Meramon's solid blue eyes.
"Now, let's see if I've gotten rusty," he smirked.
Outside, minutes ago
Lita found Mina in the throngs of people wondering how the fire started and what the monster inside was doing in there. Mina had slipped away from Koichi so she could find a place to transform.
"Where's Koji?" Mina fretted.
"He's still inside!" Lita replied. "That thing cut us off and Koji sent me away. We have to hurry!"
Mina nodded before the two of them raced for a nearby alley while the pulled out their henshin sticks.
(this is a split screen transformation)
Venus Star Power!
Execute! Spirit Evolution!
Juptier Star Power!
Lobomon!
Inside
Lobomon stared at Meramon with clenched fistes as he tensed for an attack. Meramon met that glare with every burning ember of his being.
"Lobo Kendo!" Lobomon called as he drew his weapons of choice.
Before the two of them could actually begin their battle, someone chose that exact moment to interrupt.
"Hold it!" a feminine voice shouted.
The two Digimon looked up to see two girls in fuku outfits. They were standing at the foot of the stairs that were leading up to the main second level. One was a brunette while the other was blonde.Lobomon couldn't help but feel like he had seen them somewhere before.
"To make chocolate delights is a sacred act!" the brunette frowned.
"To burn thse efforts like they were nothing is unforgivable!" the blonde added.
"Just who the heck are you?" Meramon frowned.
"I am Sailor Venus!" the blonde spoke.
"And I am Sailor Juptier!" added the brunette.
"And we are Sailor Scouts!" the both finished.
Meramon was now sevrely irritated. So many distractions and so little time. Lobomon smirked at their appearance. The two Sailor Scouts quickly acted and moved to either side of Lobomon.
"I take it you two are the warriors of love and justice I've been hearing about?" Lobomon asked with a smile.
"Two of them," Jupiter replied. "Who are you?"
"Lobomon, warrior of light," Lobomon replied.
"So you are a Legendary Warrior!" Venus smiled proudly. "I knew it!"
Lobomon glanced at Venus and noticed that the centre of her bow on her chest was glowing. His Legendary Warrior symbol on his shoulders were doing the same. He could feel it pulsing through his armor.
"Agunimon said good things about you girls," Lobomon spoke. "I hope you don't disappoint."
"You can't disappoint someone who's dead!" Meramon laughed. "Roaring Flame!"
The scouts and Lobomon raced to avoid the attack. Gripping his weapons, Lobomon leaped at Meramon with a flurry of slashes. The flame Digimon was hard pressed to avoid getting cut while dodging. Sailor Jupiter took advantage of the situation to take an opportunity f an attack.
"Jupiter Supreme Thunder Crash!"
The electric bolt fired at Meramon and collided with his back. It was without doubt that it was painful, but the damage thunder could inflict on fire was debatable.
"Grahhh!" Meramon roared as he began to face Jupiter with hate blazing in his eyes.
Lobomon saw his opportunity and like Jupiter, went for it. His target: Meramon's neck. As he moved, Meramon's gaze snapped back to him as a 'present' began to form in his hand.
"Fireball!" he roared as he slammed the attack into Lobomon's chest. The force of it sent him crashing into the tables. He just barely missed Bokomon and Neemon.
"Lobomon!" Venus gasped as she raced to his side. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," Lobomon grimaced as he began to stand up.
Meramon had that arrogant smirk back onto his face. As he walked towards them, his left arm was beginning to flare wildly. No doubt he was about to unleash another Roaring Flame attack.
"Juptier Supreme Thunder Crash!" Jupiter's voice rang again.
Another thunder blast collided with Meramon again. The flame Digimon stumbled and his arm returned to normal as his concentration was lost.
"You little sparkler!" Meramon hissed as he turned to face Jupter. "It'll take more than that to stop me!"
Lobomon was quickly getting tired of Meramon's arrogance, "I'm ending this! Lobo Kendo!"
Lobomon reactivated his swords and lunged at Meramon again with all his strength. Meramon again twisted around with his fist clenched in anticipation. Lobomon couldn't change course in mid-air, so he face met with Meramon's fist. He was snet back into the tables and Sailor Venus.
"You just don't get it!" Meramon crowed. "You can't beat me! I am one of Master Daemon's warriors!"
Jupiter and Venus' eyes narrowed at the name. Lobomon could guess that this Daemon was the guy wo was pulling the strings behind the Digimon coming to the human world and the need for the Legendary Warriors again.
While Meramon was gloating, the small fires that Meramon had ignited when he digivolved had been releasing smoke into the air. The smoke was just now reaching the celing. As it pooled there, it started to engulf the sensors that had been situated up there. The sensors then immediately were set off and a bell began ringing through the air. The four combatants looked up just in time to see the anti-fire measures initiated. Water began raining down on them. Meramon had the immediate effect.
"Gyaaaaaaaah!" Meramon roared as he began thrashing wildly. "It burns! It burns!"
"What's wrong with him?" Neemon squeaked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Bokomon snapped. "Since he's mostly fire, Meramon would be seriously affect by things that would put out fire."
Meramon continued to thrash about. Smoke was now floating from him as he actually began to shrink. He had shrunk to the same size as a regular adult when Lobomon managed to get his senses back. He pointed his left gauntlet at Meramon while Venus seemed to mimic his movements with her right arm.
"What are you doing?" said Lobomon as he took aim at the wildly thrashing Digimon.
"Helping you," Venus replied with a smile.
"Fine," Lobomon sighed. "Then on my signal."
Meramon stopped and began to try and aim at the sprinklers. A dumb move on his part, but Lobomon was going to make sure that he wouldn't get the chance.
"Howling Laser!" he roared.
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"
Two beams of light fired forward at the same target. As they moved, the two beams started to swirl together in a coil. Yellow and white fused together into what looked like a shooting star. It continued at a faster pace until it made contact with Meramon's chest.
Graaaaaah!" Meramon bellowed as the shooting star pushed him until he collided with the opposite wall, creating a body impact as he hit. Meramon's eyes turned blank as he fell to his knees. His body turned to a mdnight black and a ring of blue data began to swirl around him. Lobomon dashed forward as he drew his D-tecter.
"Now to pay for your crimes Meramon," Lobomon growled. "Fractal code! Digitize!"
The ring vanished into the handheld device as the black shadw of Meramon dissolved into nothing. The image of the wireframe egg was there before it vanished just like the other one.
Lobomon sighed as the sprinklers put out the last of the flames. As he placed his remaining sword the two Sailor Scouts caught his attention.
"Um...Lobomon?" Venus asked a slightly timid voice. "Did you see a boy in a blue jacket and bandanna when you came."
"Yeah," Lobomon replied. "I managed to distract Meramon so he could get out. Don'tknow where he is now."
"Lobomon," Jupiter began. "Um..there's probably going to be a meeting with the scuts later. The Hikawa shrine."
Lobomon glanced over his shoulder at the two scouts, "Agunimon and I will be there. Be prepared to answer some questions."
The scouts both nodded. Lobomon gave a ghost of a smile before dashing out to the back door. He had to let Takuya and the others know what was going down. After he found Koichi and his mother of course. She was probably worried sick about him by now.
To Be Continued
A/N: There we go. Chapter three. I think this is one of the longest chapters I ever wrote. I wonder. Notice to fans of my other fics. I am happy to knw you still support my works and I am working on the next chapters in line. That includes Moon Armada to those fans who keep up with it.