A Digimon Frontier Fanfic

By Sakura Martinez (a.k.aHaru Glory)

A/N:

Okay guys, before I start forgetting on what to do today, I'd first like to greet everyone a Blessed New Year! Another year has gone by and now that we are all facing a brand new year, let's all do our best as we have done in the year gone by.

As a New Year's gift to all of you, here's another chapter for The Rabbit on the Moon. Remember, this chapter follows the chapter before the previous one (before the Christmas Special).

The Rabbit on the Moon

Eyes of the Guardian

Katsuharu panted as he redirected another flame blast from Krad back to him only to find that such a counter attack does little damage to their foe. His knees were already shaking and as he looked back towards his comrades, he also knew that they too were close to collapsing.

"Damn it, where the heck is that brat?" Katsuharu muttered to himself as he wiped a sweat drop from his forehead. "Just where the heck are you, Takuya?!"

"You're pretty good considering the fact that you're close to your limit." Krad said with a smirk on his face. "Unfortunately, this is the end for you!"

With that, Krad stretched forth his hands at the same time that, on the other side of the battlefield, Kira also stretched her hand. From the palm of their hands emerged two large balls of flame.

The balls of flame grew larger by the second and the heat emanating from them began to grow in intensity as well. Izumi could not believe her eyes, nor her other senses. She could not believe that the same type of power that had once was used to save her and her friends would be the same power that would destroy them. She was frozen in her spot just like the rest of them.

Teppei touched the earth beneath him, and then thought for a second. "Even if I use my power here and now, the intensity of the flames would only melt it into a lava and that would put us in more trouble than we already are in…" Then he looked over at Chiaki and thought, "Chiaki can't use her power to fight off this attack, her power isn't enough to even match this…and neither can the Captain bounce it back to them. Damn it!"

The two enemies smirked as they could almost taste their victory.

"We didn't really want to destroy you all, after all, the Master still needs the five of you, unfortunately, there are things that just can't be helped." Kira shouted.

And with that they let go off their attack whilst shouting the name of their technique, "COSMIC BLAST!".

The attack was slow, but all knew that even if they would make a run for it, they would not make it and most of them can't even move from their position.

When the attack finally hits them, a powerful gust of wind caused them to squint their eyes. Izumi held onto Tomoki who was light enough to be caught flying in the air. Kouji stuck his sword on the ground and used it to stop himself from being blown away. Junpei did the same as Kouji. Teppei, Katsuharu and Chiaki all were on the ground.

Just then, something flashed by.

Izumi could only see a blurry image for she was already close to losing consciousness, but somehow, she could not help that there was something familiar in the atmosphere. Her last thoughts before she fainted was that of Takuya…

His eyes did not falter and nor did his stance as he stood in the middle of the two powerful forces. His arms outstretched to his side, he sucked in the roaring ball of fire into nothingness.

At that time, his back was turned against Kira and Krad who was in shock to see something like that even possible.

"What?" Kira exclaimed, "How could that be possible? Who is this man?!"

Turning around slowly, He glared at the two. "I can not forgive you for trying to hurt these people!"

Kira cringed at the tone of his voice but Krad seemed not to mind. Krad's urge to fight was not yet satisfied, so it seems.

"What are you going to do then?" Krad asked, his eyes showing more thirst for blood than ever.

He did not answer.

"I have to say, I'm quite surprised that someone alive is able to disperse our strongest combined attack like that." Krad went on. "Having the power of the Ancient Flames, that feat is something impossible, and I wouldn't have believed that it could be done if I hadn't seen it myself."

"Ancient Flames?" Tomoki asked, "You're not saying that that is the power you wield, are you!? That's impossible! There's only one person who can wield that in this time and that's Takuya!"

Krad smirked. "I guess you haven't heard then…what science can do."

"Krad, that's enough!" Kira said, "We are not authorized to give information about that, especially not to these people."

Takuya, who was still wearing his armor turned to face Katsuharu. "Captain Katsuharu, take them to safety and leave these guys to me. I'll meet up with you later."

Katsuharu was surprised, it was only then that he realized whom he was talking to. "It's about time you arrived. Very well, be careful, brat."

Takuya nodded. "I will."

Katsuharu, Teppei and Chiaki then helped Junpei and Kouji in escaping with Izumi and Tomoki. As they were running off, Kira went to follow them only to be stopped by Takuya who suddenly appeared in front of her.

"I can't let you do that." Takuya said as he let out a fierce, fiery punch aimed towards Kira who took the hit and was sent flying. "I normally wouldn't hit a woman, but, this case is a whole lot different…"

Then he faced Krad. "Now, you're turn. I'll make sure to pay you back for hurting Lady Izumi and the others."

"This should be interesting." Krad said as he readied himself to battle.

Silence filled the air. A silence that you could hear a pin drop. As quickly and sudden as the silence befall the battlefield did the battle begin.

Krad let out a furry of attacks with his flaming axe. Takuya smirked as Flayhm told him in his mind that such attacks would do no damage to him.

"This guy isn't serious about fighting you with fire, is he?" Flayhm said.

"He doesn't know who I am, Flayhm…and that would be his downfall."

Katsuharu cringed as he held his injured side waiting for Chiaki to heal him. He could still not imagine how Takuya was able to pull off the Level 3 power of his element.

"Tell me, Captain," Teppei said in a hushed voice. "that masked, armored warrior…that's him, isn't it?"

Katsuharu nodded. "We're lucky that he came when he did, if he had been a second late then we would all have been destroyed."

"Well, if that's the case, why do you seem troubled even if we're already out of danger?" Teppei queried.

"Who said we are out of danger?" Katsuharu asked back, then added. "There are a lot more things to worry about now."

"You speak of those two, don't you?" Chiaki said as she too joined in the discussion. "The two who can use the same power as him."

Katsuharu nodded. "How is it possible that they have the same ability as that brat? What's more, now that Takuya has reached the third level of his power, it would even be harder for us to keep him in check. Who knows when he'll be able to break the seal we placed on him?"

"You're still worried about that seal?" Chiaki asked with a sigh as she began on healing Katsuharu's wounds. "Didn't I already assure you that we didn't need the seal in the first place?"

"You can never be too careful, Chiaki, especially not with that brat." Teppei said.

Just then, Kouji went towards them. When they felt his presence, they immediately decided to change the topic of their discussion.

"I don't know who you people are, but we owe you our lives." Kouji said. "I can't thank you enough."

"No need to mention it, Vice Captain Minamoto." Katsuharu said, his eyes gazing at Chiaki's healing hands. "We did what we have been tasked to do, nothing more, nothing less."

"Wait, how do you know who I am?" Kouji asked.

"We'll explain later, but no need to fret, we are allies not enemies." Katsuharu replied as he stood up and gazed to where the loud explosions were coming from. "We need to wait for him to return so that we can head towards the place where you can all be safe."

"Him? You mean that masked guy in the armor?"

Katsuharu nodded but said no more leaving Kouji to wonder to himself who these people really are.

"Damn, Damn, DAMN!" Krad shouted as he forced himself back up again. "Just who the hell are you?"

Takuya did not bother to answer, instead he said, "Had enough yet?"

Krad gritted his teeth. His anger welling up inside of him. He had never felt so humiliated in his life for he had never been badly bruised as he was now. Add that to his confusion as to why his strongest attacks do not work on this masked warrior and you will know how very pissed Krad was.

"I suggest you go back to wherever you and that female friend of yours came from before I decide to get serious in this battle." Takuya said.

Krad's eyes grew wide as he thought to himself, "He wasn't serious that time?"

Silence was the answer. It took a while before Takuya received a death glare from his opponent who swore to make him pay when they meet again before disappearing with his female companion.

Takuya sighed and when he sensed that he was alone and no one was watching, he reverted back to his old self.

"That was close." Takuya said huffing and puffing.

"You bet." Flayhm said. "If you would have continued fighting that guy, you would have turned back as you are now and you would have no way of winning then."

"Actually I would have, that guy uses flames just like I do…which reminds me, how is that even possible? You told me that I'm supposed to be the only one to be able to do that, right?"

Flayhm nodded, his eyes closed as he too thought of the reason why. "You ARE the only who can use my power, Takuya. So I don't have the slightest clue as to why those people can also do that. Anyway, I would not have allowed you to fight them as you are. Those people seemed to be a part of your father's entourage and by letting you fight with no protection for your true identity will mean trouble for us all."

Takuya nodded after realizing that. He had not even thought about that outcome before, for he was too into the battle to even realize it.

"Anyway, we better head to where the others are." Flayhm said, then added, "By the way Takuya, I think you could still manage a few more hours of being the Masked Warrior."

"What are you saying?"

"Well, you're not going to fight, so that's alright, I can manage to keep you in that form just so Izumi and the others don't realize who you are." Flayhm explained. "I believe that this isn't the best time for them to know that you're still alive."

Takuya sighed. His guardian was right. So with another flash of light, Takuya transformed back into the mysterious masked warrior.

"For now, I'll be content at seeing Izumi through your eyes, Flayhm." Takuya thought to himself as he walked to where his friends were gathered waiting for him to join them.

To be continued…

A/N:

Well, I'm not pretty happy about this chapter since it seemed like I made a couple of mistakes – typos and the likes, but this will do for now since I think I won't be able to update for a while (not too long, I hope).Classes will start this week, quite early if you ask me, so I may be a bit busy. But I will still try to squeeze in some time for writing.

Anyways, this is as far as I am going to write for now, so once again a Blessed New Year to everyone, this is Sakura Martinez signing out, until next time!!!

BTW, thanks for the reviews you guys!