Long ago, Ten Ancient Warriors controlling the very elements themselves fought against and sealed away a great evil threatening the world, unknowing of the true corruption that remained. Now, Many Years Later, their successors fight to correct the Injustices imposed against the Digital World.
*cue Fire!*
DIGIMON: FRONTIER
"Ladies and Gentlemon... The Beetlemon!"
The wind was horrible inside of this canyon. After their little 'detour' to Breezy Village and Candle Wax Canyon, our brave group of adventurers were on their way to Forrest Terminal at long last.
"My ears have sand in them..." Neemon commented.
"Yes, and your head has rocks in them." Bokomon dryly replied.
The Song Wind Canyon. That was where they were currently. Following the single train rail that they had been directed along through a canyon that seemed to produce it's own wind.
"WOAH WOAAHHH...!" A Trailmon cried out as it raced along the tracks, nearly running our heroes over.
"Man, why do things in the Digital World have to come out of nowhere for?" Takuya groaned.
"We're following Train tracks." Jp grumbled. "What'd you expect? Marshmallows?"
"Yes, it's like that whole Smoke-Fire thing." Bokomon noted.
"Yeah yeah, I get the point." Takuya grimaced.
But, however, the Trailmon's departure point was spotted almost immediately. A Factory- consisting of a massive blockaded area with a giant windmill in the center- was right on top of their train tracks.
Okay, like I'm one to talk... But that's beside the point.
"Wind Factory Incorporated!" Bokomon read, clearly demonstrating his refined skills. (The sign reads "Wind Factory Corporation.")
"A Division of Mother Nature Industries!" Neemon added.
"Hey, look!" Takuya pointed inside as a band of mechanical beetles marched along the ground. "Some digimon!"
{KOKUWAMON: "Kokuwamon! A Machine digimon who lets out a shrill electrical charge when frightened."}
"Why don't we go in and see if they know if we're on the right track?" Zoe then winced at her own joke. "Sorry, no pun intended."
"Let's go then, No time like the present..." Takuya nodded and went to step through.
However...
Even stepping a foot inside the main gate triggered an alarm.
"Warning! Warning!" A small, green digimon inside a brown cocoon suddenly dropped down. "A Warning from Minomon!"
An Alarm consisting of Minomon.
"Hello Minomon!" Neemon waved.
"WARNNING! Can't you hear me! NO trespassers! Go Home!" The MInomon cried out.
"Hmm, Larva digimon." Bokomon consulted his book.
"What we're trying to say is...!" Two more Minomon appeared suddenly. "GET OUT!"
Zoe whistled. "Hey, can we just get a word in edge wise?"
The trio glared, then nodded. "Fine."
"We're just looking for a map to Forrest Terminal." She continued.
"Forrest Terminal?" The Minomon replied, then quickly merged into a conference.
"Um, if it's all right, could we also get some food?" Takuya started. "I haven't had anything to eat since yesterday!"
"Me either!" Tommy added in.
"I'm hungry too!" Neemon piped in.
That seemed to make the Minomon's decision. "Then come on the tour! We have a lovely map of the surrounding area in our kitchen! Which is at the end of the tour along with the all you can eat buffet!"
The Minomon seemed... Happy... Excited, Elated... Whatever- It was a complete 180* turn from their previous mood.
INSIDE WIND FACTORY INC._ _ _|
The tour itself was lack-luster, your bog-standard assembly factory: They made Fans. The Kokuwamon were the ones making the fans, and the Goblinmon were their supervisors. But, they were all inside big glass rooms, with the visitors/tour takers on the outside.
"Are you enjoying the tour?" one of the Minomon asked.
"Yeah!" Tommy, however, seemed to find the actual process of constructing a small table fan rather interesting. "I've never been to a real factory before! It's all so shiny!"
"Are there any questions?" The Minomon asked.
"Can we slide on the floor in our socks?"
*SNAP*
"OUCHEEEE!"
Cracks appeared in the glass due to such a high note.
Jp took this moment to chime in. "Erm, do you guys have a restroom? I think that soup from Breezy Village isn't agreeing with me all that well."
Minomon simply pointed down the hall. "To The Left!" Again, such simple information seemed to be... freely given with such... cheer.
Regardless, Jp rushed off.
Upon emerging from the restrooms a minute or so later, Jp's attention was caught to the far left as he watched a Goblimon drag something red past a steal bar door... Almost like a prison cell.
"Huh... I wonder what that's all about..." Years of re-playing Half Life and related Expansions had trained his senses, senses that were blaring at him "Some-thing's Wrong!" Unfortunately, those same senses were telling him "Find a weapon, THEN Investigate!" as well.
"Hmm... I'll check it out later..." And with that, he headed off to re-join the tour.
Rubbish timing, really. If he had stayed there a moment later, he would have seen the flash of blue light outlining a Kokuwamon, and heard it's muffled scream of terror.
THE MAIN BACKBONE OF THE FACTORY_ _ _|
The "backbone", as the Minomon called it, was a massive central tower with lift arms attached. "This is where all the super cool high tech stuff is made!" The Minomon generalized.
"This is High tech?" Takuya blinked. Indeed, it made no sense at all- all the table fans that the Kokuwamon had made were being dragged into the main central shaft via conveyor belts.
And once again, Jp's gammer senses were flaring up. "This thing reminds me of the Anti-mass Spectrometer."
"What's an Anti-mass Spectrometer?" Tommy asked.
Jp paused, then simplified it. "It makes a big green glow and analyses rocks and crystals and stuff."
"Our main power shaft does no such thing!" The Minomon replied. "It just transports the fans to a new section- A CLASSIFIED SECTION- of our factory!"
"Classified?" Zoe frowned.
"Yeah! Top Secret! No Visitors Allowed! I can't even get up there!" The Minomon continued. "And I'm the Vice President!"
"Vice President?" Jp frowned as well. 'Now I know for sure that some thing's up with this factory.'
THE CAFETERIA_ _ _|
As Takuya and Tommy and Neemon were the only ones who hadn't eaten within the last day, Zoe, Jp, and Bokomon went off to consult the map.
"Okay.. Is it just me or is this map not helpful at all?" Zoe frowned.
"Yeah, it does look a little suspect." Jp nodded.
"Hmm? This is the map?" Bokomon asked sarcastically. "I thought it was an art piece."
The "Map" was what appeared to be Trailmon Tracks, and ONLY the tracks. In fact, the only sort of landmark on the map was a Red star with a smiley face on it in the right hand corner of the map, and that seemed to be just the logo of the Map Maker only.
"Well, I've seen more useful maps with even less on it before..." Jp sighed, then pulled out his D-Scanner. "I wonder if this has a camera on..." He trailed off as he spotted the map on the screen. Five dots, each with an accompanying symbol: two were grouped together (Pink and Yellow, with symbols for Wind and "Unknown") that were him and Zoe; two more were off a bit more to the right (Red and Green, with symbols for Fire and Ice) those had to be Takuya and Tommy; and a fifth dot (It was more... Orange-ish... And had "Unknown" again.)... Who was that?
Suddenly, the Red and Green dots came closer to them and...
"Let's get out of here." Takuya groaned. "All they have on the menu are Batteries."
"Batteries... Batteries... Batteries..." Neemon chimed in.
"Nine Volt, Triple A, Automobile 9 Volts..." Tommy added. "All Batteries."
"Hmm..." Bokomon took a sweeping glance around the Cafeteria. "It appears that the menu is specially catered to the Kokuwamon." Indeed, the Kokuwamon all around them couldn't seem to get enough of their... Erm... Spark filled meal.
"They even have a Double A Pie..." Takuya grimaced. "I don't even want to think about what's in it..."
THE MAIN PLAZA BETWEEN THE FRONT GATE AND THE MAIN BUILDING_ _ _|
"Man, Stupid Batteries!" Takuya grumbled again as he kicked a worn out D-Cell out of his way. "Stupid Wind Factory..."
"Now now..." Zoe started. "You'll hurt the Minomon's feelings."
"Like they hurt my stomach's?" Takuya cast a glance at her.
"Well..."
"Hey, check it out." Jp pointed off to where the battery had landed. "It's a fenced in area..."
Indeed it was, outside said fence were a couple of Goblinmon, and inside were decaying Mud Brick houses, that the Kokuwamon were living in!
"How horrible..." Zoe gasped. "They're forcing the Kokuwamon to live inside such old houses!"
"At least they're in the sunlight." Neemon commented.
"Yess." Bokomon narrowed his eyes. "Where they can sweat and rust."
Sneaking inside the cages was easy enough (a well tossed D-Cell caught the Goblinmon's attention), and the conditions were even worse than they appeared.
"Wow... You're kinda funny looking." One of several smaller Kokuwamon commented in it's child like voice...
'They're keeping everyone prisoner!' Jp's eyes widened. 'Then what about that cell door I saw by the restrooms?'
INSIDE THE FACTORY_ _ _| UPPER CHAMBER_ _ _|
"Oooh... That's good ooze..." A serpentine voice commented to himself as he sipped his iced drink out of it's glass via his spinney loopy crazy straw. He was even in air conditioned comfort, enjoying a comfortable room temperature of 56* Fahrenheit via the electric table fans produced by the Kokuwamon.
"Erm...Master...?" A Goblinmon asked as he entered the chamber.
"What?" Anoyance slipped into the Digimon's voice.
"We have reports of some outsiders who toured the factory and now are in the Kokuwamon barracks." The Goblinmon reported.
"Outsiders?" The digimon's sharp, blade like hand smashed through his glass. "I hate outsiders!"
KOKUWAMON HABITAT_ _ _|
"Where once there was there, there is now here." The elder Kokuwamon started. "Which is neither here, nor there."
Zoe blinked. "Um, I'm sorry...But If I said that made any sense, I'd by lying."
"You've lost me too." Tommy nodded.
"Sorry, the Elder's charge is a little low these days." His right hand 'mon stepped forward. "Perhaps it'd be best if I told it from the beginning..."
FLASHBACK_ _ _|
"We Kokuwamon naturally live in forests, well, our clan did, at-least. For Generations we fed upon the charges in the trees, and played games of electric tag!"
The village consisted of mazes of tree-houses, and dozens upon millions of Windmills.
{A.N.: For a complete visual of the Kokuwamon village, go visit Channelwood Age in Myst, Now available for your cellphones!}
"Then one day, out of the blue, the Goblinmon came and captured us! The Electric charge in this Wind Factory had gotten low, and was near depletion! They had us all taken away from our beautiful village home!"
END FLASHBACK_ _ _|
"Here, not there." The elder concluded.
"That's so sad..." Zoe sniffed.
"H-How horrible!" Tommy grimaced.
"This clinches it." Jp started. "I've had a bad feeling about this factory from the moment we got here."
"So why do the Goblinmon make you work?" Takuya frowned.
"Our labor is just a disguise." The one Kokuwamon continued. "The Goblinmon would never let outsiders see what truly goes on here. We Kokuwamon are timid by nature, but when frightened, we emit a powerful charge!" he grimaced. "They even throw water on us to short our circuits out, and use the charges to power their machines, or even worse, they turn us upside down and let the charge rush to our heads!"
"Terrible!" Zoe clenched her fists. "What jerks!"
"I myself have gotten so jumpy that I fell like I have a Kangaroomon in my pants!" The Kokuwamon continued. "They have us in the factory day in and day out! Even some of our children were born here!"
"Sad." the Elder added. "Very Sad."
The mood in the room seemed to drop at this.
Then, Tommy spoke up. "So why don't you leave?"
Jp, surprisingly, was the one to answer. "The Kokuwamon aren't fighters, Tommy. Even if they tried to leave, the Goblinmon would just bring them back again."
"Then what?" Takuya growled as he clenched his fists. "We just let them sit here and rot? No Way! I won't let them be!"
Jp frowned. "You're serriously going to try to band them together and break out of here?"
"Why not? We're fighters!" Takuya continued. "We're The Legendary Warriors! We'll Talk the Goblinmon into letting the Kokuwamon go, or we'll beat some sense into them!"
"Hold up, who died and made you king?" Jp growled.
Takuya snapped his fingers, then pointed to his goggles. "These, dude! Goggles rule!"
Jp stared blankly at the square lenses for a moment. "Okay... Fine... But what if we don't want to fight?"
"I'm in!" Zoe grinned. "We'll get you out of here, Kokuwamon!"
"I'll go where ever Takuya-nii-chan goes!" Tommy added.
Jp sighed. "Fine, fine. You guys go ahead and play heroes." Then he got up to leave. "While you're all transforming and whatnot, I'll be looking for a crowbar."
Outside, none of the room's occupants noticed the Minomon watching them from outside. "I KNEW It! Anyone who turns down Double A Pie is got to be trouble!" With that, it rose into the air. "Snimon-sama's not going to like thiiiis!"
The map was assembled within short order. "Allright, here's the plan." Takuya pointed to the front gate on his hand drawn map (complete with a little "Not to scale" addition in the corner). "Zoe as Kazemon will cause a distraction, drawing as many Goblinmon as she can to the front gate." he turned towards her. "Think you can handle it?"
"Easy as a Double A Pie!" She smirked.
"Great!" Takuya continued with the plan. "Once we've gotten inside the factory, I'll give the signal, and we'll all attack at once- Our Target is the Assembly line! Once we destroy that, it's bye bye Wind Factory!"
"Here here!" The elder cheered.
"Right then!" Takuya grined as he smashed his fist down onto the table. "We strike at sun down!"
"What about the prisoners inside the factory?" Jp started. And no, not a crowbar in sight. "Or how about the workers still inside?"
"Hmm..." Takuya paused for thought. "Well, That's Where you'll come in Jp!"
"Huh?" He blinked. "Why me?"
"You see, you don't have a spirit yet." Takuya started. "So, since you can't Digivolve, you'll be a much smaller target for the Goblinmon! One that can't attack!"
"Eh?" Jp frowned. "Was that supposed to be an insult?"
"No no!" Takuya quickly corrected himself. "While we're attacking, Jp, you'll be sneaking into the factory and freeing the workers!"
And so, as the three moons began to rise into the sky, the plan was put into action.
*cue WITH THE WILL*
Simultaneously, on all three D-Scanners, the Spirits of Ice, Fire, and Wind drew themselves on the screens. Those familiar bands of data re-appeared on their left hands, and, at once, Takuya, Tommy, and Zoe scanned it. "SPIRIT!" They pulled the D-Scanners away, and their clothes digitized off. "EVOLUTION!"
The bright red armor of the warrior of flame formed over Takuya's body, and solidified in a burst of flame. "RAAAAHHA! AGUNIMON!" The Warrior of Fire gave of punch of fire, burning straight through the metal fence before him.
The skin tight pink body suit of the warrior of wind formed from the data around Zoe, and then solidified with a flap of her newly formed wings. "Haaaa! HA! KAZEMON!" The Warrior of Wind gave a kick, sending a blade of wind through the fence as well.
The small collection of data in the air formed around Tommy into the familiar snow bear that was the Warrior of Ice. "HAHA! KUMAMON!" The Warrior of Ice grinned brightly as he froze the remaining fence solid by his presence alone.
This was enough to draw the Minomon's attention. "WARNING! WARNING!" now there were five of them...
"Go away you mouthy pine cones!" Kazemon glared at them through her visor. Somehow, the death glare reached the Minomon, and they ran away with all the speed their little vines could carry them. "HURRICANE WAVE!"
The Tornado blades of wind launched out, slicing through the rock face all around, and cutting through the main gate entirely- shredding it to scrap data.
'That oughta wake up the neighbors!' she smirked.
And indeed it did- As the Goblinmon rushed out to deal with the threat to the main plaza, Agunimon, Kumamon, Bokomon, Neemon and the Kokuwamon raced into the factory.
The few Goblinmon who DID notice them, however, were immediately pre-occupied by Kazemon's furious kicks and wind attacks.
But where was Jp?
Already inside with a squadron of Kokuwamon. "POWER SURGE!" The Kokuwamon roared as they blasted their Goblinmon captors with the electricity they so desired.
"Yeah! That's the way to do it!" he grinned.
Elsewhere inside...
"CRYSTAL FREEZE!" Kumamon took in a deep breath, then exhaled a frosty malestorm of ice., freezing more Goblinmon solid.
"Nice work, Kumamon!' Agunimon nodded as they continued on.
"He made Goblinmon-pops!" Neemon remarked.
"POWER SURGE!"
More damage was done to the assembly lines, courtesy of Kokuwamon and Company.
Jp and a few select Kokuwamon, however, had decided to break off from the main group to investigate the fifth D-Scanner signal on his map. "Now where could it be...?" He frowned. 'I'll bet it's a spirit, maybe... And not a D-Scanner... But what else could it be?'
"POWER SURGE!"
And with that, Agunimon and Kumamon gained entrance to the Backbone of the factory...
"Oh dear..." Bokomon noted. "It appears we've been surrounded."
Indeed, there was an army of Goblinmon all around them.
...And sitting on a massive crane above them was their boss, a massive, Praying Mantis like creature with blades for arms. "Hahaha!"
{SNIMON: "Snimon, a praying mantis digimon with blades for hands! His special attack is Twin Slicer!"}
"Well well..." Snimon started. "A couple of trespassers and rebels... I suppose I'll just have to destroy you!" With that, he jumped at them. "TWIN SLICER!"
And then, Jp found the room from which the fifth signal was coming from. "Well, here we go..."
"This is the interrogation room!' A Kokuwamon noted. "It's where the Goblinmon torture those who don't go on the tour but come in anyways!"
"Well, let's knock the door down then!" With a swing of his improvised weapon of a pipe wrench (It just didn't work as well as a crowbar, though), and a compliment of Kokuwamon's Power Surge, the door frame was knocked off it's hinges.
"Oh Lucy-mon!" Jp started. "I'm Home!"
"My name's not Lucemon..." the sole occupant of the room groaned from his spot on the floor.
"Flamon!" Jp's eyes widened. "What in the world are you doing here!"
The poor fire boy digimon groaned some more. "Oh, Nothing... Just trying to be a hero, what else?"
"You know this Digimon?" A Kokuwamon asked.
"Yeah... he helped us out in Breezy Village..." Jp frowned as he went to help Flamon out of the room. "But he went off in the other direction than we did. How'd you get here anyways?"
"This one teleported right into the main assembly tower via a shadow portal." The Kokuwamon replied. "The Goblinmon captured him immediately!"
"Shadow portal?" Jp blinked. "What's that?"
"It's a technique..." Flamon started. "Used by only skilled Mage digimon..."
"It allows the user to teleport from one location to any other via the shadows that surround him." Another Kokuwamon elaborated.
"So you can use magic to teleport around?" Jp frowned. "A good skill, I'll admit, but don't you need a guied or something to use dark portals?"
"Yeah..." Flamon coughed. "And Something pulled me right out of my teleportation spell."
And then, a sudden thought occurred to Jp. "Hey, I only found you because I was chasing another D-Scanner signal. But I don't see one on you..."
"Probably just reacting to my belt or something..." Flamon rolled his eyes tiredly. "Scanners tend to do that."
"POWER SURGE!"
"GOBLIN STRIKE!"
Electric bolts met fire spheres in a massive explosion.
"PYRO DARTS!" Agunimon roared as he launched fire darts at Snimon.
"Wahhh!" Kumamon ducked under a fire sphere. "CRYSTAL FREEZE!"
These Goblinmon were smart enough to dodge.
Agunimon quickly used his gauntlets to block Snimon's blades. "N'gh! Why don't you give up, you over grown pest!"
"HAHA." Snimon laughed. "Is that your game then? So what should I Call you? Lunchmeat?"
Agunimon then felt the railing that indicated the end of the second floor against his back. "None of your business!"
"You dare taunt me?" Snimon asked...
CLANG.
Seconds before he was flipped over the railing and into the central shaft in the room. "OOF..!"
"You Bet I do!" Agunimon smirked.
It was then that Kazemon rushed past them in the tunnels.
"Jp!" she cried out. "Takuya and the others haven't left the central tower yet! They're in trouble!" She didn't even notice Flamon with him. "I'm going on ahead to help! Get the workers out of here!"
Jp quickly pulled out his D-Scanner and checked the map. Indeed, Takuya and Tommy's signals were jumping allover the room where the "Backbone" of the factory was. "Drat... I just knew that was a boss fight room!
Flamon quickly put a hand on the boy's shoulder. "Go help them."
"But I..."
"Go."
"AHAHAHA! TWIN SLICER!" Snimon slashed his blades through the air, sending twin purple blasts through the air at Agunimon.
"UGH!" He got knocked into the wall from the force of the impact.
"Hahaha! Now I shall destroy all of you one by one!"
What Snimon wasn't expecting, however, was Jp suddenly appearing in the control seat for the central tower via a shadow portal- courtesy of Flamon.
Not even Agunimon or Kumamon or even Bokomo or Neemon knew what was happening the moment the crane arm came spinning towards Snimon, knocking him into another wall, and ensnaring his blades within it.
"JP!" Kumamon cheered. "Great timing!"
"Nobody threatens my friends!" Jp narrowed his eyes. 'I don't know what Flamon did, but I'm going to use this to my advantage! I've always wanted to controll one of these things!'
"Rah! You fool!" Snimon roared as he tried to free himself from the wall... "SINGLE SLICER!"
...And succeeded in freeing one claw with a slash aimed at the tower.
"JP!" Agunimon gasped.
Thankfully, the energy slice missed the control cabin by a good degree- missing Jp entirely- but, however, it did succeed in cutting the lift arm off of the base cabin, and removing part of the cabin itself. The Part of the cabin fell down to the base of the central column, breaking it wide open- while- in a massive back fire- the lift arm crashed back down onto Snimon.
Surprisingly, inside the open base was a formerly sparking sphere of golden energy- now revealing itself to be a shiny blue stone carved figure on a six sided base- a Spirit.
"Now where do you suppose that came from?" Neemon asked.
"The metal around it must have blocked the D-Scanner's scanner!" Bokomon reasoned. "That, or the signal then resonated throughout the entire factory, never locking onto the same spot twice!"
"Now that's gotta be mine!" Jp grinned as he jumped out of the cabin, entering a slight free fall. "SPIRIT!" With a roar of triumph, he pulled out his D-Scanner, and uploaded the spirit's data mid fall...
*cue WITH THE WILL*
With a flash of green, the Spirit of Thunder drew itself on the screen of Jp's D-Scanner. He held out his left hand, and the band of data sparked into existance. With a quick slash, he pressed the D-Scanner against the data and pulled away. "EVOLUTION!"
With Bolts of thunder and lightning sparking around him, Jp's clothes digitized away as the Data of the Spirit itself began to merge with him. First a horned helmet, then thick, heavy armor around his torso, and then a pair of wings mounted on his back.
There was a crack of thunder as the newly minted Legendary warrior smashed his fists together. "RAAAA... HAH! BEETLEMON!"
The giant humanoid beetle monster spread his wings mid descent, and swung around towards the only just recovering Snimon. "Hey Buddy! You're not going to like where this is going!"
"What...?" Snimon would have blinked, had he had eyes.
Beetlemon jumped into the rubble, and smashed his fists into Snimon's face, sending the bug flying out of the wrecked lift arm and into the wall.
"OOF." Snimon growled as he quickly recovered, the charged at Beetlemon...
But he was already behind him, his right foot firmly planted at the base of Snimon's neck. "Take That Head Crab!"
Snimon tried to make a remark, but the Warrior of Thunder was dancing around him. "Stay still like a 'mon so I can cut through you!"
"Really? Go ahead and try!" Beetlemon came to a halt infront of the remaining central tower. "Give me everything you've got!"
"TWIN SLICER!" Snimon launched the attack again, repeatedly. "TIME FOUR!"
The purple blades of energy...
"Heh... I think I like this better than a HEV suit!" Beeltemon smirked as the purple blades of energy just bounced right off his armor. "Now it's my turn...!" With that, electricity began to spark around his fists, and then all around him.
Snimon wasn't happy, and he wasn't going to let the attack finish. "RAAAARRR!" He jumped up towards Beetlemon.
"I Call forth...!" Beetlemon smirked under his helmet as he dove for Snimon, his fists over his head. "The Power of...!"
Snimon's head and Beetlemon's fists met in the middle.
"THUNDER FISTS!"
And Rock Beats Scisors every time.
Snimon's body hit the ground and shadowed out, the data band appearing around him as per usual.
"Now it's my turn for a little magic." Beetlemon quickly made a motion with his hands, then summoned his D-Scanner. "Where once your power was used for evil, let it now be used for good!" He slashed the D-Scanner over Snimon's Data-code bar. "DIGI-CODE...SCAN!"
THE NEXT MORNING_ _ _|
Due to the "Backbone" of wind factory being broken at it's base, the factory itself didn't survive for much longer. Only just long enough for everyone to make it outside, and for a combined attack from Beetlemon and Agunimon to completely destroy the building.
"Our story has come full circle!" the Kokuwamon right hand 'mon started. "We can now return home!"
"Thanks, mist'r!" a Kid Kokuwamon smiled at Jp. "Thanks for saving us!"
"Any time, any time." Jp grinned as he rubbed the Kokuwamon on the head, and not even receiving a mild static shock in return.
Takuya frowned as he watched Zoe conclude a conversation with Flamon. "So what's the deal with that guy?"
"He's just a traveler, he said." Jp frowned. "He wasn't even trying to get here when he teleported away from Breezy Village, he said, but to the Dark Continent, whatever that is. He wouldn't give me anything more besides that. Sounds Ominous if you ask me."
"Weird." Takuya frowned. "Something seems off about him."
"I dunno." Tommy smiled as he watched Flamon head over to the Kokuwamon elder. "He looks like someone we can trust."
"So Flamon's going to escort the Kokuwamon back to their village." Zoe smiled as she walked up. "He's such a nice guy, even volunteered to do it and everything."
"So, will we be seeing him again?" Takuya crossed his arms.
"He wasn't sure." She looked up at the sky. "But he said he wished we wouldn't."
"Eh?" Jp blinked. "Isn't that kinda rude?"
"'I'd just bring bad luck.' That's exactly what he said." Zoe sighed. "I don't get the guy. He seemed so nice back at Breezy Village."
"If you ask me, we don't need any more lone wolves in the Digital World." Bokomon crossed his arms. "The 'Warrior of Light' is going to be bad enough to work with regardless."
ELSEWHERE_ _ _| A DARK CAVE_ _ _|
"WHAT?" A deep, raspy voice cried out in shock. "More human children get spirits?"
The Minomon across the cave just nodded in reply.
"Yuuuummm..." You could hear the drool in it's voice.
_TO BE CONTINUED_