A Digimon Frontier Fanfic

By Sakura Martinez (a.k.aHaru Glory)

[A/N:

I'm kinda delayed when it comes to updating this story since there had been a lot of things going on in the background. Anyways, I'm quite thankful for all the reviews I got from the past chapter, it showed how many people are still reading this.

With that said, here's the next chapter, hope you guys like it too.

The Rabbit on the Moon

A New Chance

In the darkness of the night, numerous figures made haste to exit the City. Making sure not to make any sound, they walked nimbly and in the shadows. They knew they were being watched, the only question was: from where?

The moonlight was their only guide. The noise of the nocturnal animals that reside in the City was their only console that no harm would befall on them – yet.

They were cold, for the wind that swept the land seemed to carry with it the frozen embodiment of the rain that had drenched the streets and the world around them a couple of hours before.

Their breath was visible as puffs of smoke emerged from their mouth and nostrils whenever they breathe. Their thick fur-made cloaks seemed not to work as they could not help but think how fate seems to favor those who wished ill of them.

Kaizen flew above the group making sure to keep herself invisible to all but her master. It was her task to be their lookout. For her to make sure that they would not be running into enemy hands.

The Guardian Spirit of the Wind found herself lucky to not be able to feel anything – warm or cold. She could not bear to imagine how she would be able to do her duty well if she were capable of such feeling as getting cold.

Among the group, it seemed as though Tomoki was the only one who was not trembling. It was, of course, all thanks to the power he possessed as the Chosen One of Ice and of course, thanks to his Spirit Guardian, the Polar-Bear-looking-Hiltz.

"Can't you share that thick-skin-like ability with us, Tomoki?" Junpei asked as he shivered when another round of cold and freezing air blew.

"I don't think I can even if I wanted to, Junpei." Tomoki replied, feeling a bit guilty that he was the only one who found the cold normal. "It's one of those things that are special to us Chosen Ones alone."

"Then, Lady Izumi, can you at least direct the wind not to blow the cold into our direction?" Junpei said, almost as if whining.

Izumi looked over at her bodyguard, "If I do that then we'd only be giving away our position to the enemy. Besides, take it like a man. You're a knight, aren't you?"

"But--!"

Kouji sighed, with the ruckus that Junpei was making he could not help but think that it would only be a matter of time before they were found.

"Keep it down, Junpei." Kouji hissed, quite annoyed. "Do you want us to get caught?"

This, finally silenced the freezing young knight as he kept his thoughts to himself.

It took them several more minutes before they were already by the city gates. Believing that once they get there, they would finally breathe a sigh of relief, one could imagine the surprise on their faces when they saw a group of people waiting just beyond the gates.

Believing that it is the people who are after them, everyone made ready to defend themselves whilst they continued walking.

"If they try to do anything suspicious, we'll attack immediately." Kouji informed them in a hushed whisper. Everyone acknowledged hearing him by nodding their heads.

"Get ready to battle, Kaizen…if it is needed, that is." Izumi told her guardian.

Kaizen nodded.

Everyone's breath was held. The hands of the two knights were on the hilt of their prized weapon. The minds of the two Chosen Ones were cleared, ready at any given notice.

Ten seconds and they would be passing the people who seemed to be awaiting something…perhaps them.

Nine seconds and they would be passing the people all wore cloaks that hid their faces from view.

Eight seconds and they would be passing the people who seemed to not care as they approached.

Seven seconds and they would be passing the people who did not shiver even as another cold wind blew.

Six seconds.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

None moved as Kouji and his entourage passed. Not a single one of those people even looked at their direction. The Vice Commander could not help but feel at ease even when his hands were still on his hilt, ready to attack.

"Maybe I'm just thinking too much of things." He thought to himself.

As they were already a couple of feet away from these cloaked ones, everyone breath a sigh of relief as if the worst had just passed. As if their worries were all gone. All, that is, except for Izumi and Tomoki.

"Tomoki," Izumi muttered as she walked at the same pace as the younger Chosen One did. "did you feel that?"

Tomoki nodded, his face was serious. "It's the same feeling as I've been having since this morning. A familiar yet distant feeling."

Izumi nodded.

Kaizen eyed the cloaked men who still had not moved from their position even as the distance between them grew. She knew where she had felt it before, but she still had no idea at the moment what it was.

"It's the same scent as from this morning." She thought to herself. She then looked over at Hiltz who caught her gaze and nodded, as if telling her that she could smell it too.

"Aren't we going to talk to them?" Asked one of the cloaked men.

"No." Came the reply from another cloaked man. "We won't be confronting them like this. I've thought it through, and it's not time yet."

"Are you certain about that, Captain?" Another one asked.

The cloaked one in question nodded. "We'll examine them from a distance, I doubt one of us would be able to keep his word."

The person whom the Captain was referring to did not seem to care what his superior was saying. Shrugging that side comment off, his eyes, while trying not to make it seem like it, was eyeing the blond-haired woman that had just passed them.

Takuya had no desire in his heart at that very moment, than to grab her hand and let her know that he was alive and well. That he did not mean to leave her in the dark as to her true status.

His auburn colored eyes shone in a golden brown brilliance as the moonlight touched over them. He could very well imagine the look that Izumi would have if he did just that.

He knew very well that he would doubt his true identity. He had changed after all – from his hair, to his composure and even to his demeanor. He did not think this is what maturity was, but he knew for a fact that he was no longer the same as the Takuya from the past and that she too had changed.

Even if he just managed to catch a glimpse of her as she walked briskly by, he still managed to see it. The strength in her beautiful eyes. The resolve to fight.

He smiled to himself. "And so it seems we have both grown, Izumi."

He was snapped from his thoughts when Katsuharu finally spoke. "It's time. Remember, use stealth."

"Right." Everyone said.

"Especially you, Takuya." Katsuharu added before he vanished with a puff of smoke and their two other companions followed suit.

Takuya growled. How he hate being under those guys. But what can he do? He had no choice. And with one final look at the place where their roads met once again, he too vanished.

Not far from where Takuya and his companions were, there stood another group composed of three people, all of them also wearing cloaks but unlike the first group, their eyes held nothing but malice.

"Well, this looks pretty interesting, wouldn't you say?" Said one of the cloaked figures who watched as Takuya's group dispersed.

"Yes, it sure does." Came a female voice who was sitting from one of the tree's branches overlooking the entrance to the city. "It seems we are not the only ones who're interested on the Western Commander's daughter."

"Well, at least it has become interesting." Came the third one's voice who sounded rather bored. "Having to follow them all around the place has become rather boring, more people being involved means more people I get to kill."

The woman looked at her companion rather displeased as she thought to herself how barbaric he was, wanting nothing more but more blood on his hands. But, her companion did state a fact that it was becoming crude and he was right about having more excitement now with hurdles along the way.

The taller of the two, the one who spoke first, voiced out his concern. "Still, I can not help but wonder who those people are."

"Who cares, Kratos?" came the bored voice of the other man. "Their just insects waiting to be squashed anyways, there's no need to learn petty details as to who they are or where they came from. Those details won't matter in a battlefield anyways."

"Krad's right, Kratos." The woman agreed. "For all we know, those people are just a bunch of amateur knights hired by that pesky Commander to protect his daughter. We're wasting time as we speak of them, we have no time to waste, after all, the Master would not be pleased if young Kimura gets caught up with those people again."

The man, Kratos looked at his two companions. "I guess you are right, Kira. Then let us be off and deal with those people, I could use a little bit of vacation after this."

And with that, he vanished into the darkness, his two companions following suit.

Hours have passed since Izumi, Kouji, Tomoki and Junpei got out of the City of the Kingdom of Sol. All of them were tired, but they knew that if they want to catch up with Kouichi and stop him from doing whatever it was he was planning on doing, they would have no time to waste, not even for a little bit of rest.

They have found that the easiest and safest path they had, and a possible path that Kouichi also took, was that in the Forest of Illumines.

As the group made their way through the forest, not far from them, Takuya's group was also following, although his group decided that the best and more productive way of following the group was by encircling them with a V-formation, with Takuya at the end of the said formation.

Takuya, although pretty far from Izumi and her companions, could spot them in the distance as he used the trees and its branches, leaping from one to another, as a means to do his job – a skill he managed to perfect thanks to the Organization's harsh training.

With a small flash of light, Flayhm appeared right next to him.

"What are you doing, Flayhm?" Takuya asked as he eyed his guardian with a surprised look on his face. "I believe you heard what Katsuharu said about you not appearing in your tangible form. What if the enemy spots you?"

"Even if they see me as I am now, Takuya, they won't realize that I am the Guardian Spirit of Flames, they may only think of me as some forest creature or something." Flayhm said. "After all, it was a millennia ago that I appeared in this world, who the heck would remember or even know of me now?"

Takuya did not say anything after that, he focused himself on the mission at hand. He didn't know why, but somehow he felt as if there was something wrong, something that was out of place.

He shrugged it off a couple of hours later as they neared the edge of the dense forest believing that he was just being paranoid and that there was nothing wrong, that was, until he noticed the number of people in Izumi's entourage.

Flahym noticed the sudden change in his master's eyes and so he asked, "What's wrong?"

Still continuing on with him following the group, Takuya replied. "I had been thinking that something was wrong and I've only noticed it now, I don't understand why there are only four of them when there should be five."

"What are you talkin' about now?" Flahym asked.

"Someone's not with them." Takuya pointed out to his flying companion. "Were there only just four of them from the beginning?"

Takuya's musing was cut short when he saw not far ahead another group of people who seemed to be waiting for something.

When Kouji saw the blockade that was in front of them, he ordered everyone to halt. He did not expect to bump into him soon, but there he is standing in front of two other people with his back turned against them…

"Kouji!" Kouichi shouted, a hint of anger in his voice.

Kouichi slowly turned around to meet with his once-companions. When he had faced them, everyone was surprised with the sudden change in Kouichi. His eyes no longer showed any hesitation, his stance was no longer meek, but most of all, he showed no expression with meeting up with them.

"It seems they've caught up with us, Kouichi." Said Kira.

There was no response from him.

"Kouichi, what are you doing? Who are those people?" Izumi asked.

"We don't need to introduce ourselves to you lot." Said Krad, "Kouichi, you don't need to worry about these people, we'll handle them. You go on and meet with our master, he had been really anxious to see you."

Kouichi turned around and nodded to them before he boarded his horse and galloped away.

"Kouichi, wait!" Kouji shouted, but it was already too late.

"Sorry, but we can't let you through." Kira said.

"Get out of our way, woman!" Junpei said.

"Not a chance, boy!" Kira shouted back, taking out her twin daggers from their sheath. "We can't allow you or anybody else to hinder the plans that our master has."

"Then I guess we do not have a choice." Kouichi said as he too unsheathed his sword. "Everyone, we must break through them."

"Right." Everyone acknowledged.

Takuya was astounded, he would not have dreamed of the day that Kouichi would turn against his friends and companions. He could not think of any reason why he would do something like that.

But there was one thing he knew he needed to do.

He didn't care if Katsuharu, Teppei and Chiaki went ballistic on him. He could sense it, a power that was like no other, a power that seemed to flow from some evil source. And that power was, as he could sense it, emanating from those two people who were hindering Izumi and her companions from going after Kouichi. And he knew that they would not have a chance against those two by themselves.

What matters the most was that he would be able to protect them all. Something that he believed he was not able to accomplish before.

To be Continued…

[A/N:

Whew, fifteen chapters…I did not expect it to be this long, lol.

Anyways, I really have nothing left to say for my post author's notes so I'll be leaving this chapter here for now. (Got a lot to do)

So, until next time, this is Sakura Martinez saying PEACE and signing out!

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