A Digimon Frontier Fanfic

By Sakura Martinez (a.k.a Haru Glory)

[A/N: Well, first off, I would really like to extend my warm thank you to all the people who reviewed on the previous chapter, those who continue to read this fanfic and for all those who really like it – I appreciate your support very much. Second, I would like to apologize for the great amount of delay in updating my fanfics, as I have said countless of times in the past, I am really quite busy at the moment with only a few moments to spare for writing, and I have chosen to use that time in continuing this fanfic and hopefully finish it soon.

Anyway, without further delays (as I have already delayed this chapter far too long) here is the next installment of the Rabbit on the Moon

The Rabbit on the Moon

The Rescue and the Parchment

Their footsteps echoed through the hallway as they ran as fast as they could, with the sound of powerful explosions not far behind. Their weapons were unsheathed, ready to strike any resistance from the opposing force. Their minds were focused on only one thing. This, for them, was what they call "payback".

"We should have just sneaked in instead of creating all this unnecessary trouble." Kouji said amidst the booms and bangs.

"Well, you did agree to what Shin wanted to do." Kouichi said with a grin on his face. "Besides, this way, it is much easier to search for our captured princess."

Kouji did not like the idea to begin with, yet, he did not understand as to why he had agreed to go on with it.

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Flashback

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"Well, would you look at that…" Kouichi whistled. "Who would have thought that you would figure out where those guys went…"

"Tell me about it." Shin replied. "I guess it pays to listen to lectures sometimes."

Kouichi could not help but laugh at that. It was a first coming from someone who rarely uses his head as Takuya does, to say something like that.

They were all hiding behind a large boulder a couple of meters away from where three knights were guarding the front entrance to what seems to be a fortress built in stone. It took a couple of minutes for Kouji to realize what that place was.

"This is bad…" he muttered causing the two others with him to look at him with a confused expression.

"What's wrong, Vice-Commander?" Shin asked.

"We should hurry up on rescuing Lady Izumi." He stated bluntly. "This place, this is the 'Ygdrassil', the Western Corp's fortress based in the Ryu Region."

Takuya's eyes widened. The Ygdrassil. He has heard stories about the place, rumors that his father was conducting research on something at the said fortress. He has heard of its unbreakable defense. Thinking back, it all makes sense. Those armored men that kidnapped Izumi, the reason why their armor looked familiar was because he had been inside the fortress and saw those who were guarding it, once, when he was still a child.

For the first time since the beginning of their mission, Takuya felt his insides tighten. He did not know what to do. He knew that when they attack the fortress and if he was, by any chance, captured, he knew what the consequences would be facing his father.

He wasn't sure if any of his father's men would recognize his face. But what they were planning to do was a gamble, a gamble in which his future was at stake.

"Shin…" Kouichi muttered seeing the worried look in his friend's eyes.

"I'm alright." Shin muttered.

"Now, how do we infiltrate this place?" Kouji wondered out loud. "It's no question that Ygdrassil's security would surely be tight and that they would far outnumber us. Not only that, but we don't have any idea as to where they are keeping Lady Izumi locked up."

"That's right." Kouichi agreed. "Not only that, Vice-Commander, but we have no idea as to the layout of this place."

As Kouichi and Kouji were talking, Takuya began to recall how the inside of the fortress looks like. He could vaguely remember, he was still, after all, a little boy back then when he had just begun his training.

"It may be a maze inside." Kouji said.

"A maze?" Shin queried.

Kouji nodded.

Then suddenly, Takuya was hit with an idea.

"I think I may just have a solution to our little problem with the layout of the Ygdrassil." He stated causing his two other companions to stare at him. One looked at him with a baffled expression while the other eyed him with caution.

"What is it, Shin?" Kouji asked.

"Well, since we don't know the twists and turns of the place, why don't we just make out own pathway?" Takuya asked.

"What are you talking about?" Kouji asked. "Are you out of your mind? That would probably take weeks – no, even years to accomplish."

"Shin, are you feeling alright?" Kouichi asked. "I thought you were serious with this idea of yours, turns out you're just pulling our leg."

"I'm dead serious." Shin retorted.

"And just how are we going to pull that off quickly and without delay?"

At the question, Takuya snapped his fingers causing fire to erupt from them. The fire was only just a fraction of what he had shown Izumi when they had been separated from Kouichi and Kouji, but it was enough to surprise the two.

"This, my friends, is the answer." He stated. "And by 'this', I mean my ability to create fire – and in turn, create explosions and bombardments."

"How did you…?" Kouji was about to ask when Kouichi cut him off.

"Just when the hell did you learn how to do that, Shin?" he asked.

"Can't really remember and it doesn't matter." Takuya replied. "So, what do you guys say? Are you in or out?"

Kouji and Kouichi both looked at each other for a couple of minutes, as if searching for what the other was thinking before they finally agreed to what Takuya/Shin had in mind.

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End of Flashback

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As they ran, Kouji questioned his companion about something.

"Tell me, Kouichi, do you have any idea just why Shin was able to do what he did with this place?"

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Flashback

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Shin stood up and moved back a couple of ways from the boulder, after which, he closed his eyes, drew a deep breath and began to concentrate not just on calling forth a powerful blast that will give them the path he needed but also on trying his best to remember the layout of the fortress.

Little by little, he began to remember. He visualized it in his head. The large metallic corridors that went behind the three knights guarding the entrance; the several doors leading to different rooms that were of no importance to their current mission and several barred mythril doors that separated one part of the fortress to one another.

He tried his best to remember, remember a possible place where a captive could be kept. It took almost as long as focusing his energy on his fists for him to realize where that place was. As he opened his eyes, he was certain, and he through his fist in front of him, and from it erupted a powerful ray of flames that were aimed on the left-hand side of the fortress, towards where Takuya remembered his father telling him that the stairs to the most secured prison cell could be found.

As he singed the walls and made themselves a pathway, Takuya shouted to his two companions to make ready themselves and run for it.

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End of Flashback

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"No, I don't know, Sir, this is actually the first time I saw him do this." Kouichi replied.

It was the truth, and he sure was surprised that Takuya kept something like this from him.

Meanwhile, on another part of the fortress, Takuya was running by himself, making sure to get the attention of all the guards. It was a great risk for him, and he felt bad about frying and slaying his father's men, but it was something that needed to be done – it was a mission, and his mission takes priority over all else. Despite this, he hoped and prayed that not a soul would realize who he is.

He wasn't sure himself why he had volunteered to take the job of luring their enemy away from the rescue party which was only composed of two people, all he knew was that there was an inkling feeling, a feeling that seemed to voice out to him to head towards the direction which he was now taking. It was hard to describe – this feeling, for he too was unsure of what it meant.

Takuya let out another fire ball which hurled itself towards a group of dark armored knights creating another explosion that blasted them to pieces. It was only a moment later that Takuya realized where he was at.

He remembered the place vaguely. He remembered being scolded by his father from stepping foot on the room. He remembered how mad his father was, of how angry he looked at him as he shouted at him.

The room was different now than before. The large cylinder in the middle of the room, which used to held something which Takuya could not remember but was of some importance, now only held little evidence that something was kept there. The large shelves that he remembered were neatly arranged then looked like it was ransacked. There were numerous parchments on the large table in front of the cylinder and books that were disheveled. Takuya thought that the Scientists that were at work there quickly packed up and took everything important for fear that they were being raided by the King's men – this was only plausible though, Takuya thought, if what they were doing were illegal. It was something he feared his father was doing.

After making sure that there were no knights waiting to ambush him, Takuya hurriedly made his way in search of something. He does not know what that something is. Maybe some sort of hint of what they were doing; maybe he was searching for something that would clear things as to why his father would send those people to capture Izumi; he wasn't sure what it was, but he was searching, following a voice that seemed to be instructing him in his head.

He was about to give up when he suddenly stumbled into a parchment that was partly burned, partly crumpled. He picked it up and took a long hard look on the words written on it, he read:

Lord Kanbara,

We have finished our research concerning that 'thing' that you have brought to our care twelve years ago. I would like to report that the experiment went smoothly and that we have also stumbled upon something that would truly catch your interest. It seems that the 'thing' is somewhat related to the prized artifac that you are currently searching for, and based from our research, the power that you desire could be attained if you acquire the ten powers said to be governing our world. These powers are hard to find, however, for they have fused themselves with the human kin –choosing for themselves whom their master would be. These 'Masters of the Ten Elements' will, as we have learned, have an ancient marking somewhere on their body.

I am sure that you know where this is heading, Lord Kanbara, for this is where our problems ultimately lie – in collecting the ten humans who were chosen by these powers of unknown kind. Apart from your son, Lord Takuya, and the boy from the snow village we recently attacked, we have no other clue as to who the other chosen ones are. However, a sudden turn of events have led us to believe that your rival's daughter may be one of them. We have already taken her into custody and would soon begin our experiments with her and the other boy. I would therefore ask your permission to send your son over to us for that same purpose as well. I hope that you would give us a positive reply, my lord.

Your faithful servant,

"Kaos"

Takuya's eyes widened with every line he read.

"So the rumors were true," he thought to himself, "my father is really up to something, what's more, both Izumi and I may very well be part of whatever it is he is scheming…"

He shook himself, he know that now is not the time to think further of this matter as he made a mental note to talk to Izumi about this and also to learn more about who this other person, this "boy" the letter was referring to is.

As Takuya was making his way back, he suddenly encountered knights running towards the direction of where the Vice-Commander and Kouichi went. As he hid from their view, he heard what they were talking about.

"Hurry, the others have already surrounded the intruders and the two escapees."

Takuya was once again surprised, he though how fast it was for the others to be caught so easily even when he was making such a ruckus on the other side of the fortress. Then he realized that there must really be hundreds or even thousands of knights that were currently stationed, which would make sense since some "important" experiment was held there.

Shaking unneeded thoughts from his head, Takuya emerged from his hiding spot, dealt with the knights that were making their way to where his other companions were said to be surrounded as he began to make his way there as well.

Meanwhile…

"Well, this is some rescue…" Izumi said sarcastically, then faced Tomoki and said, "Can't you do something about our current situation?"

"What would you suggest, Lady Megumi?" Tomoki asked.

"I don't know…freeze those guys or something?" Izumi replied.

"I would really love to do that to pay them back, however, I currently have little stamina left to be able to do something like that." Tomoki explained.

This caught the attention of their two other companions who both asked in unison: "You can also use some sort of magic?"

"You can say that." He replied.

"I can't believe it, first it was Shin and now it's this kid." Kouji said.

"Speaking of Shin where has that idiot?" Izumi asked, her voice still holds a grudge on him for allowing him to let her be captured in the first place.

"He's making sure that no other knights would come here and make things more troublesome." Kouichi replied.

"I think we may have made a mistake about letting him do that." Kouji muttered. "He would have been more useful if he were here since he could easily fry this guys."

As if on cue, an explosion suddenly erupted from a nearby wall, and there stood the person in question, Shin/Takuya.

Seeing that it was there chance to escape, the group did not wait to hear a word from him, but rather, immediately darted towards their escape. When he had made sure that they all made it out, Takuya created another fireball to seal the path that he, himself has made.

After he did so, he followed the others as they made a run for it with the parchment still on his left hand.

To be continued….

[A/N: I hope you guys didn't find this chapter a bit boring or such, and I hope that you enjoyed it. This is the best I can do for the moment, so you have to bear with me. I will however, maybe rewrite it when all those hectic things in my schedule disappears.

Exams are coming up in two weeks, so you can expect that I would be able to upload a new chapter either this week, or the next after my exams.

Also, I would like to take this opportunity to send out my thank you's and replies to some of the reviews that you have sent me for this fanfic.

So here it goes:

TwinkieTUTUS:

Well, I have to say that Tommy/Tomoki really needs to be in this chapter since he is also a favorite of mine, and like you, I also wish that the Frontier season had been much longer than just having 50 episodes (or 51). And as you wish, I updated, lol….Thank you for the review!

Megmo8214:

Thanks for the compliment! I'm glad you liked the previous chapter and I also hope that you will think that this chapter is great.

milkshakelvr:

Thanks for the compliment and the review as well. As for your query on whether JP/Junpei will appear, I would have to say that he already did (on the first part of this fanfic, read chapter 1 if you forgot), lol. But if the question is whether he will soon be part of the group, well, read and find out. As for your other query, I think this chapter answers that one, lol.

CrazyAngel313:

Thank you for the compliment and the review. Don't worry, I will try to update as soon as I can and as frequently as I could.

asdf:

I will keep going! Lol, I'm glad that you love this fanfic and thank you for the review.

mysticalruby:

Thanks for thinking that the previous chapter is amazing, I hope that you find this chapter amazing as well. I think this chapter pretty much gives you a vague idea on the answer to your question. Anyway, thanks for the review!

kawaii-firestar:

Thanks for the compliment and I am quite sorry for those grammar mistakes that I have made here and there. I am also glad that you guys understand the situation I am currently in, anyway, thanks again, and like I've said, I'll try to update as soon and frequently as I could.

isabelann4114:

I'm glad that you love this fanfic. . And I am also glad that you love all of my stories as you say and that you find me as a favorite author. You don't have to worry about me stopping writing here in FFN since, I won't be quitting any time soon….definitely! And as I've told the others I will try to update as frequently and as soon as I can, what with all the school work and other projects on me.

Well, that's that for now. Thanks for the reviews once again, I hope you guys will review on this chapter as well. With that said, this is Sakura Martinez saying "PEACE" and signing out! Later everyone!