"Kumamon Baby, Light my Fire"
Here is the next chapter. Please enjoy and review!
Back at the Flame Terminal, the group stared at the Trailmon.
"If you really wanna go home, all you have to do is hop on here." Neemon pointed to the Tarilmon.
"It's that easy? Huh." JP said as he looked at it thoughtfully.
"Neemon, a word please? What exactly are you trying to do?" Bokomon asked as he grabbed Neemon's pants and dragged him off to yell at him.
"Let go of my pants. What did I do? Ow, you're stretching the material!" Neemon whined.
"If you had a brain, you'd be dangerous." Bokomon said.
"I'm taking that bad boy home, huh? How 'bout it guys?" JP asked as he looked over to the others.
Takuya and Zoe were deep in thought while Bokomon was yelling at Neemon and snapping his pants, Daisuke as biting her lip in thought and Tommy was unsure of what to do or say.
"Uh, you don't really wanna stay here do ya?" JP asked as he looked down at Tommy, but no one answered him which got on his nerves.
"Now that hurt." Neemon said as he was kicked down.
"Fine, you dweebs enjoy your little digital freak show. Come on, Tommy; let's blow this stupid pop stand." JP said as he hopped down and started heading for the Trailmon.
"Aren't you going with him?" Zoe asked as she saw the boy wasn't moving.
"I decided I want to stay here with you." Tommy said making Zoe and Takuya turn to him in surprise while Dai smiled at him.
"I thought you wanted to go home." Zoe said.
"Not anymore." Tommy said.
"Go with, JP. It's too dangerous here, Tommy. Besides, the third grade is a formative year." Takuya said as he placed a hand on his shoulder.
"No." Tommy said.
"Go home. Hurry up now." Takuya said as he pushed the boy off.
Tommy looked back at them sadly before he turned to follow JP off to the Trailmon.
"Take care of him, JP." Takuya said.
"Bye guys." Daisuke said softly.
"All right, D. You're-"
"No way." Daisuke cut her brother off.
"What?" he asked looking at her stunned.
"I'm a Warrior too and I fought just fine. I can take care of myself, you saw me. This world needs our help so I'm gonna stay no matter what ya say." Daisuke said crossing her arms with a firm nod.
Takuya sighed in defeat and aggravation.
Why did the girls in his family have to be so stubborn?
"How 'bout you, huh?" he asked turning to the blonde who had already gotten on his nerves that day.
"I have a name." she said.
"OK, Zoe, are ya leaving?" he asked.
"Why, would ya miss me?" she teased.
"I won't be responsible for your safety, you know." He said pointing to her as she crossed her arms.
"Good one, Romeo, I'll be fine." She said.
"This oughta be fun." He muttered.
Trailmon's whistle blew as he took off, smoke coming up as the others waved their friends off.
"Aviderchi!" Neemon said as he waved.
"Now pronunciation." Zoe and Bokomon said sarcastically.
"Thank you." Neemon said thinking they were serious.
Zoe and Takuya sighed as they turned to leave, but Daisuke heard footsteps and turned with a smile to see two boys walking out of the smoke.
"Look!" she said making the others turn.
"Hey, what're you doing here?" Takuya asked.
"To be honest, I have absolutely no idea." JP said as he and Tommy rubbed the backs of their heads.
"Heh, me neither." Tommy said, then laughed as Daisuke bounced over to him and playfully poked his stomach.
"Well, I'm not gonna be responsible for your safety. You're on your own." Zoe said making Takuya look at her since she stole his bit.
"What a minute, are you mocking me? You are, aren't you? Man, you try to help a girl and-"
"Shut up." Daisuke said cutting her brother off again.
(Later…)
It was sunset as the group walked away from Flame Terminal, Bokomon staying closer to the siblings to talk.
"Uh, I hope you're planning on helping us, Mister Takuya." He said as Takuya looked at him bored.
"You carry with you the spirit of Agunimon while Daisuke holds Sakuya, two of the 11 Legendary Warriors. You both can defeat the digimon turned evil by Cherubimon. Only you two have the power to save us! You must take heart before the Digital World is destroyed!" Bokomon said as he bounced around in stress.
"You need to calm down, buddy." Takuya said.
"My name's Bokomon and I'm not your 'buddy'. I don't think you understand the severity of the situation here!" he yelled making everyone stop and frown at him.
"Sorry, didn't mean to yell, but we need the data from the Fractal Code. It's the only way to rebuild the Digital World. Please, help us get the Fractal Code back. Save our world before it's too late. Will you?" Bokomon begged down on his knees with hands clasped with watery eyes.
This didn't effect Takuya at all.
"Neemon, don't just stand there like a cheap TV antenna! I need your help. Say something!" Bokomon said as he jumped up.
"Some…thing." Neemon said making Daisuke cover her mouth so she didn't laugh.
"Are you really that dense or do you just do that to annoy me?" Bokomon yelled as he snapped Neemon's pants.
The D-Tectors then started to beep making the humans pull them out.
"Attention, go to the Forest Terminal immediately." The woman said.
"What's a Forest Terminal?" Takuya asked.
"What is a Forest Terminal?" Zoe, Tommy and JP asked.
"How am I supposed to find it? Hey, hey answer me!" Takuya yelled as the voice cut out.
"Let's see. Forest Terminal is a station located deep within the realm of the Forest Kingdom." Bokomon read from the Book.
"We just follow the tracks. They'll take us right to it." he said looking at the tracks they were walking along.
"How long do we have to follow them?" Neemon asked.
"Well, let's see. It says…all the way." Bokomon grunted in frustration as the others blanched at this.
"You're full of useless information, aren't you?" Takuya asked.
They started off on their journey walking, Tommy up on the tracks while Zoe was in front of JP and Tommy while Daisuke was in the middle and the digimon were far back.
"What made you change your mind about going home?" Takuya asked the heavyset male.
"Hmm? Well, I really didn't have much going on back there anyway, and I thought it might be kinda fun to hang out with you guys and get to know ya a little better." JP said with a blush.
Daisuke smirked at this as she turned to walk backwards.
"Ya mean get to know Zoe." She teased making Takuya laugh as JP blushed even darker.
"Hey that is not what I meant!" JP said as they stopped walking.
"Oh yeah? Then why are ya all red, buddy?" Takuya teased pointing at JP's face.
"It's hot out! I'm sun burned! What grade are you in anyway?" JP demanded.
"Seventh, is that a problem?" Takuya asked.
"Huh? Well, I'm in eighth grade!" JP said.
"Like I'm supposed to care." Takuya sighed with his arms crossed behind his head.
"Like I care if you care. I should've bolted from this digi dump when I had the chance." JP complained as they started walking to catch up to Zoe and Tommy.
"Tommy, why didn't you go home?" Zoe asked the little boy.
"I decided I want to be like Takuya and Daisuke." He said hopping off the tracks.
"What?" Zoe asked.
"To become a digimon so I won't be scared all the time." He explained.
"What about your mom and dad waiting at home? I bet they're worried." Zoe said.
"I miss my parents, but when I come back, I won't be afraid anymore, so they'll forgive me for being gone." Tommy said as he looked sad, but then ran off.
Zoe watched in worry as he ran off, then continued after him.
Night had fallen on them as the group walked on, three moons glowing above them; one was yellow, another was blue and the last one was red.
They had to stop when they found the tracks cut off at a canyon and were unsure of what to do.
"Ugh, this is a fine mess." Bokomon said.
"So what now?" Takuya asked.
"Check it out guys, that trail leads to the bottom." JP pointed out the zig zagging path down the canyon where there were some lights from what they thought were torches.
"Looks like a village down there. Maybe they can help us." Takuya said.
Nodding, the group all raced down to the bottom, but it was empty save for the river and a cave.
"That's weird. I could've sworn those lights were coming from right here." JP said.
"Looked like that to me." Zoe said.
"Takuya." Tommy said tugging at the male's arm.
Everyone turned to see that Tommy was looking at what looked to be a monument of an angel that looked like a child with eight wings on his back and two on his head.
Beside it were eleven markings that circled around each other.
"What is that?" Takuya asked.
"Kinda pretty." Zoe said.
"Pretty? Pretty she says. These are the marks of the 11 Legendary Warriors." Bokomon read from his Book.
"The 11 Legendary Warriors?" the group asked.
"Does that need to be repeated?" Daisuke asked.
"I've never heard of them." Neemon said.
"Are you serious? The legend of the 11 Warriors was the first thing we learned in Digital World History." Bokomon said.
"…I must've been sick that day, but they sure are pretty." Neemon said.
"This dude here is giving me the creeps." Daisuke said as she eyed the monument of the angel, a sick feeling sinking in her gut.
"With good reasons, my dear. In ancient times there were terrible wars between humanoid digimon and beast digimon for control of the Digital World. One day an angel digimon named Lucemon appeared. He taught them how to resolve their differences and live in peace and then the fighting stopped. Lucemon was a wise and kind ruler, but peace in the Digital World was short lived. Lucemon, obsessed with his power, began to torment the peace loving digimon until they could take no more. Then the 11 brave Warriors rose up against him and after a fierce battle, they defeated Lucemon, restoring the peace." Bokomon explained.
"The legend says that the Spirits of the ancient Warriors will rise again in times of trouble." He finished closing the Book.
"Read it to me again." Neemon said.
"Mm, no." Bokomon said putting the Book in his band.
"I know that symbol." Tommy said pointing.
"It's the same we saw when Takuya evolved into Agunimon." Zoe said.
"And that mark next to it was the one on Koji's shoulder when he turned into Lobomon." Tommy said.
"That one is Daisuke's when she became Sakuyamon." He finished as JP took out a pen and notepad to draw the symbols down.
The mark of Harmony was at the very top between the marks of Flame and Light.
"I wonder if I'll be next. Oh, I hope my digimon's cute." Zoe said.
"I'm gonna be like the biggest, scariest digimon ever." Tommy said.
"Not likely shorty. I mean, there's no way we'll all get to be digimon." JP said crushing his spirits.
"Why not? We all have D-Tectors so it would be kinda dumb if you didn't get one." Daisuke said making Tommy smile at her while JP gave her a thoughtful look.
"Huh? We've got company." Takuya said turning and the others did the same to see what looked to be candle digimon with their wicks lit.
"Why have you humans come to our village? You're not welcome here." A candle with a mustache said as he stood on the other side of the lake with two others flanking him.
"We were on our way to the Forest Terminal. Sorry to disturb you, we were just passing through." Takuya said.
"You're melting my heart." The chief said.
"Ooh, that's a no-no." the other digimon said.
"You mean to steal the ancient artifact from us don't you? Well, you won't get away with it." the chief said.
"He's right. The humans must be punished." The candle on the left said.
"Hey boss, you want us to wax him for ya?" the candle on the right asked.
"Wait, stop, let me explain. These humans have come to help us save the Digital World, not steal some artifact." Bokomon said.
"But we didn't know that at first." Takuya said, then yelped as he was kicked in the shin by his sister.
"Not helping." She hissed.
"This may be hard to believe, but somehow this boy and girl were infused with the Spirits of the Legendary Warriors. Agunimon and Sakuyamon." Bokomon said.
"Did you say Agunimon? Impossible." The chief said.
"That's a hot one." Another said.
"What if it really is him?" another asked.
"And Sakuyamon too?" another candle asked.
The group all watched over the candles as they yelled at each other, some believing and others not as their voices overlapped.
"Well, isn't this interesting?" the chief asked as he and the two flanking him turned to talk this over, then quickly turned back.
"Please forgive our rude behaviour our young friends." The chief said with a smile as he jumped over the stones in the lake that led to them.
"We are the Candlemon tribe and it is our sacred duty to protect the ancient artifact. So which of you inherited the Spirits of the Legendary Warriors?" he asked.
"It was these two, Takuya and Daisuke." Bokomon said pointing at the siblings.
"Ah, well, you certainly have a brave face young man and such a beautiful one on you dear. On behalf of all the Candlemon tribe, I bid you all welcome. Please, be our guests." The chief said as he went off to his tribe.
"Did anyone else think of Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast?" Daisuke asked making Zoe giggle while the guys gave them confused looks.
"Come along now. Don't dawdle." The chief called.
Shrugging, the group followed him to where a large candle was lit in the middle of a bonfire and had the marks of the Warriors on it and had Candlemon dancing around it holding large four-leaf clovers.
"Looks like a birthday party." Takuya said.
"It's for you my friends, a welcome ceremony. Enjoy!" the chief said.
"Come closer, feel the warmth of the flame." He said as he let the group walk closer to the fire.
To their surprise, the clovers were thrown into the fire and a green mist floated up around it and the Candlemon were waving their hands to fan the mist over to the humans who were getting drowsy.
"Ugh, look at this. It's sleeping clover." Bokomon said.
"It's nappy time anyway." Neemon yawned as they both fell down, falling asleep.
"I can't keep my eyes open." Zoe said as she fell to the ground.
"Yeah." JP said softly.
"Night." Tommy said as he fell asleep.
Daisuke had pulled up her scarf over her mouth and nose as Takuya was by her on his knees, trying not to fall asleep.
"Takuya, stay awake." She said shaking his arm.
"So you've claimed the Spirits of Agunimon and Sakuyamon have you? Bah! We'll soon shed some light on this. Let's turn up the heat on these artifact filatures. Get them, Candlemon!" The chief said.
Shouting in agreement, the Candlemon started to charge at the humans.
"Hey, we can't stay here. Come on." Takuya said as he started to shake Tommy awake and Daisuke was slapping JP and pinching Zoe to stop them from sleeping.
"Huh? The river! Dive in!" Takuya said as he pulled them over to the water and jumped in with them all as the Candlemon spat out flames at them.
Tommy was having trouble, but Takuya grabbed him and Daisuke, pulling them both up.
"That was a great idea." He said as the five were pulled down the current to safety.
"I'll never complain about my alarm clock again." Zoe said.
"Yeah, nice way to wake up. Did we really have to hop into the river?" JP asked.
"Takuya said we had to dive in or we were gonna burn up." Tommy said.
"Oh yeah?" JP asked.
"Oh, did I disturb your beauty sleep?" Takuya asked.
"We'll be safe as long as we stay here. Fire digimon like Candlemon can't come near the water." Zoe said.
"Guess again!" a Candlemon said as the digimon came after them.
"Go under!" Takuya yelled.
They dived down so they weren't hit by the Lava Lugies that were spat at them by the Candlemon.
Safe from the flames, the humans swam down through the water until they found a cave they could hide in above them, but they hide by the walls as they watched the digimon far off to find them.
"I'll distract them then on my signal you guys make a break for it." Takuya said.
"Some plan." Zoe said.
"Hang on a minute mister president. I don't remember electing you leader of this stupid club, right?" JP said.
"Yeah, that's right. We're all in this together, so any decisions we make we make as a team, OK?" Zoe asked.
"I really wanna help, but I'm too slow. You guys should go on without me." Tommy said.
"That's not an option. If I Spirit Evolve to Agunimon, I can snuff out the Candlemon." Takuya said.
"Right, Spirit Boy, better read your digimon instruction manual before you try something dumb like that again." JP said.
"He's right. You shouldn't try to fight alone. You're not very good at it yet." Zoe said.
"What am I, chopped liver?" Daisuke asked insulted.
"Here they come, duck!" JP yelled making them all dive down and watched as two Candlemon passed by them, then came back up.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence." Takuya said as he pulled his goggles over his eyes.
"Just get Tommy out of here, OK? D, you stay close to me and when I tell you, run." He told his sister.
"Got it." Daisuke said.
They both then dived down into the water, leaving the other three to climb up to the cave as the siblings made it to the shore where the Candlemon were.
"There they are, get them!" a Candlemon said.
The siblings ran off as they were chased and pulled out their D-Tectors as they went, trying to avoid the Lava Lugies being spat at them.
"Come on, help me out here!" Takuya said as he pressed buttons.
Groaning at this is disbelief, Daisuke quickly pulled out her own D-Tector as she was covered in data
"Execute: Spirit Evolution!"
"SAKUYAMON!"
"Watch and learn, big brother." she said as she then jumped at the Candlemon and kicked them both back.
"Learn what, that my baby sister is a show off?" Takuya asked.
Sakuyamon was then hit on the shoulder, making her cry out as Takuya gasped in horror and then his D-Tector lit up.
"Execute: Spirit Evolution!"
"AGUNIMON!"
Standing in front of his sister, Agunimon waited for the Candlemon to attack them and when they did, he used Pyro Tornado to blast them back, but it made their flames grow bigger.
"What?" Agunimon asked.
"OK, fire doesn't work against fire digimon. Nice to know." Sakuyamon said as he summoned her staff and then created a barrier as flames were spat at them again.
"How can we beat them then if flame won't work? I don't you throwing flowers at them will work either." Agunimon said.
They both then went to attack, but had wax thrown at them, Sakuyamon screaming as it burned her along with Agunimon.
"I can't…I can't move anything." Agunimon said as the wax got harder as it cooled.
"Hang on, Takuya, Daisuke! I'm coming!" they heard someone called.
"Tommy, no!" Zoe yelled.
"Stop kid!" JP called.
Tommy pulled off his hat as he jumped into the river and started to use his hat to splash water on the Candlemon to get them to back off.
"Lights out, ya meanies!" he said making the Candlemon jump away from the water.
"I won't be just a little kid in the way ever again!" Tommy cried.
Suddenly up in the cave, a pillar of green light shot up and a totem flew over to where Tommy was making him stop what he was doing to see the water was frozen solid and then put his hat back on.
"It's a Spirit." He gasped.
Pulling out his D-Tector, he then downloaded it into his device.
"Spirit, come to me." he said as he was covered in data.
"Execute: Spirit Evolution!"
"KUMAMON!"
"That's amazing." Zoe gasped.
"That's impossible." JP said.
Neemon cheered as Bokomon checked the Book.
"What is this?" the chief asked.
"It is! It's Kumaon; the Legendary Warrior of Ice." Bokomon said.
"Time to teach you bullies a lesson." Kumamon said.
He then used Crystal Freeze, blowing out cold air and snowflakes on a Candlemon and froze him solid.
"Hey there, teddy bear. You want a playmate? Ha cha cha." The other Candlemon said.
He was covered in flames and data as he became a human looking digimon dressed in wizard gear and held a sun staff.
"Wizardmon! This mysterious Champion level digimon can make you disappear with his Electro Squall and Magical Games attack." Bokomon said.
Kumamon used his Crystal freeze, but Wizardmon jumped over it.
"Take off, teddy." Wizardmon said as he kicked Kumamon down.
"Kumamon!. Agunimon cried.
"Leave him alone!" Sakuyamon yelled.
Wizardmon laughed as he came closer to the Warrior siblings as Kumamon watched in worry.
"Looks like the great Agunimon and Sakuyamon have a little problem with waxy build up. How about a little Magical Game? Ta-ta!" Wizardmon said as he disappeared.
Sakuyamon and Agunimon shook the wax off as they looked around for the wizard.
"That was weird." Kumamon said.
They could hear the footsteps and the laughter.
"Up here! I know, let's play catch." Wizardmon said as a bolt of lightning was shot out at the siblings, but Sakuyamon swung her staff around to bat the electricity away.
Another bolt was shot down making them jumped away from it.
Wizardmon laughed again as he appeared.
"Not bad, Legendary Warriors, but I've got plenty up my sleeve." He said as he multiplied.
"Too bad, you're going to lose no matter which Wizardmon you choose." He said as the Wizardmon all circled around the Warriors of Flame and Harmony, boxing them in.
"Which is the real Wizardmon?" JP asked.
"They all look the same to me." Zoe said.
"Agunimon and Sakuyamon, don't you see? All these Wizardmon are me. We all look real because we are. Just try to run, you won't get far." Wizardmon said.
"This is just a game. Only one is real and I'm going to find him." Agunimon said.
"Every Warrior must fall. Your times are up. Electro Squall!" Wizardmon said.
Electrity came at the two from every end, but they jumped up to avoid the hit, Kumamon noticing something.
Only one cast a shadow from the light.
"Agunimon, Sakuya. Look down here. Only one of them has a shadow." Kumamon called up to them.
"Thanks. Game's over!" Agunimon said as he charged at the real Wizardmon and kneed him in the stomach and sent him back as all of the copies disappeared.
As for the original, he was covered in a strip of data.
"I never did believe in magic. Here's a trick for ya. Fractal Code: Digitize!" Agunimon said as he collected Wizardmon's data and turned him back into Candlemon.
"Yay, molto bene!" Zoe cheered.
"Yeah mo…what she said!" JP cheered.
Agunimon gave Kumamon a hand up as Sakuyamon stood behind them with a smile.
"Thanks, Agunimon." The Warrior of Ice said.
"No, thank you. You're one brave little bear." Agunimon smiled making Kumamon chuckle.
"Well, I guess this proves that they really are the Legendary Warriors after all." A Candlemon said.
"Yes, I would not have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself." The chief said.
Kumamon, Agunimon and Sakuyamon all transformed back into their humans forms.
"You have indeed proven yourselves worthy of carrying the Spirits of the Legendary Warriors my young human friends." Candlemon said.
Takuya gave a wink and thumbs up to Tommy as the boy returned it while Daisuke tried to push away her jealousy of someone else stealing her brother's attention.
"Takuya and little Tommy as well as dear Daisuke. You three have truly honored the great names of Ahunimon, Kumamon and Sakuyamon. I salute you three." The chief said.
The Candlemon all cheered as Zoe and JP climbed down over to them.
"I'm afraid I owe you all an apology. The truth is we thought you might possess the Spirits of the Legendary Warriors, but we still had to make sure. I'm sorry we didn't trust you." the chief said.
"So then all of this has been a test?" Tommy asked.
"Well that pretty much stinks. You're lucky I don't pinch your lights out for that." Takuya said as the group glared at the chief.
"I'm so sorry. You have every right to be angry." The chief laughed.
"Fractal Code; Render." The woman's voice said.
A stream of data shot out to where the unfinished tracks lay and it was completed.
"Wizardmon had the Code." Bokomon said.
"Wizardmon held within him the Code for the bridge which protected our village from evil digimon. Young Takuya, for many years no one has crossed this canyon, but you have my official permission to use this bridge. Follow the tracks and they will lead you to the Forest Terminal, but it is a periless journey." The chief said.
"Uh, maybe we should think about this guys. There's still time to go home." JP said as Zoe giggled.
"You're just jealous because Tommy found his inner digimon and you haven't yet." She said.
"Why would I even care about that? Shorty can have it. it's just that being here is like working." JP said.
"And we all know how you feel about that." Takuya teased making everyone laugh.
Lights came from above making them look up to see a Trailmon going over the bridge.
"Hey, somebody else just beat us across the bridge." Takuya said.
Staring up at the windows, Daisuke could have sworn she saw a flash of blue there.
"Koji." She whispered.
To be continued…